Lots and Lots of 360 news (Splinter Cell exclusive, Halo RTS, Banjo Kazzoie + more)

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Starting things off with a promo video from Rare: Banjo Kazooie (!) looking in a secret door and finding... a new game B-K game from Microsoft Game Studios. Whoot!

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/peter-jackson-and-fran-walsh-to-make-new-halo-game-original-ip/

Microsoft has confirmed that the Academy Award-winning duo Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (Lord of the Rings, King Kong) are set to create two "new interactive series" for Xbox 360 and XBLA. The first is a "collaborative effort with Bungie Studios to co-create the next great chapter in the Halo universe.""It's not Halo 3," said Scott Henson,
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/360-hd-dvd-add-on-coming-to-us-europe-in-mid-november-for-200/

Microsoft has confirmed today that the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive will arrive mid-November for the US and Europe. The price will be $199.99 in the US, €199.99 in Europe and £129.99 in the United Kingdom. The European prices beat Game Industry.biz's predictions (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/08/xbox-360-hd-dvd-bundle-to-undercut-ps3-in-europe-according-to-u/) from earlier this month. The HD DVD drive will be bundled with Peter Jackon's King Kong and the Xbox 360 Universal Remote.
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/ms-announces-halo-wars-a-new-rts/

A real-time strategy game based in the Halo universe has been announced. The project, entitled Halo Wars, will be designed by Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires) "exclusively for Xbox 360" (read: no PC).
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/splinter-cell-bioshock-gta-iv-episodes-are-console-exclusive-f/

Both BioShock and Splinter Cell Conviction (the suspected title for the post-Double Agent iteration) will be console-exclusive to the Xbox 360; BioShock will still be coming to the PC, while Splinter Cell can still be released for the PC and various portable console (DS, PSP). BioShock publisher Take-Two will also be providing "exclusive access to two downloadable, epic episodes of Grand Theft Auto IV via Xbox Live, each with hours of entirely new gameplay ."

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/pgr4-banjo-kazooie-and-marvel-universe-coming-to-xbox-360/

Project Gotham Racing 4 and a new Banjo-Kazooie title are coming to the Xbox 360. In addition, Microsoft Games Studio is releasing Marvel Universe Online for both the 360 and Windows.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/xbla-gets-doom-today-soccer-later/

Id software's classic first-person shooter DOOM will be available for download on Xbox Live Arcade today for 800 MS points ($10 US). The game will include the full, four-chapter single player game. Co-op and deathmatch modes will be available via split screen or online via Xbox Live.

Coming soon will be Sensible World of Soccer, based on the 1994 Amiga title of the same name. The game will allow you to play with the original graphics or an "updated, high-resolution look and feel."

SWOS :heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart:

[Disturbed316]

Fuck yeah, just put some points on my account earlier, gonna buy those sucker as soon as I can.

[Kalyx triaD]

Marvel Universe Online.

Now that I know your name... I will have you...

[Disturbed316]

Yeah, gonna get that for sure.

[Ogen]

Right this 360 thing is intriging me more and more, online play sounds fun so how much is the basic version now then and how much for online ( I know nothing )

[Fryza]

I don't know how the prices rate differently there, so I'll go off what I know.

The core system (A 360 without the hard-drive) is $300. Meaning you will HAVE to buy memory cards or a hard-drive seperately.

The premium system (360 + hard-drive) is $400, and has somewhere between 12 to 20 gigs on the hard-drive. Also comes with a wireless controller, and a headset.

Both systems come with Xbox Silver Accounts, meaning you can do content upload, and message friends. It comes with a thirty-day trial subscription to a Gold Account, meaning you have more access (such as voice chatting, and shit). After the month, it's basically fifty bucks a year.

FROM WHAT I KNOW.

[Kalyx triaD]

When you make an XBL profile (for Silver) you'll get a month free of Gold; you MUST have a hotmail or msn passport.

Other than that they're selling a $50+ Microsoft Points card that'll give you 13 months of online gaming (good deal).

The most important thing is the elimination of credit cards in the equation.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Man, X06 is fucking amazing:

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/27/its-official-guitar-hero-ii-heading-to-xbox-360/

As rumored (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/20/rumor-guitar-hero-ii-on-xbox-360/) and expected (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/20/guitar-hero-coming-to-multiple-new-platforms/), Guitar Hero II is officially making the jump to the Xbox 360. RedOctane and Activision announced today at X06 that the rumors were true -- the power of the guitar shall no longer be confined to a single console.

With the newly announced X-plorer guitar controller designed for the 360 (we wanna know, is it wireless?), the hard drive and Xbox Live Marketplace, this game is a match made in heaven for this system. Future downloadable songs, new bass and rhythm tracks, the mind just reels.

Will we be able to one day jam with Drum Hero, Guitar Hero, Microphone Hero, and Keyboard Hero, and everyone on their own wireless instrument? Dare to dream.

[Tornado]

BANJO KAZOOIE

[Mr. Monday Morning]

All I really want from life is an updated SWOS with current teams and the ability to go longer than 20 years. That right there would be marvellous.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

All I really want from life is an updated SWOS with current teams and the ability to go longer than 20 years. That right there would be marvellous.

If it has updated current rosters I swear to god I will be air humping for a year.