The Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 demo has now been posted on Marketplace. Of course the demo is free, but is only available for Xbox Live Gold Members. It is also available in all the regions that Xbox Live covers. The size of the file is 625 MB. This one looks pretty interesting, I haven't downloaded it yet but I plan to sometime tonight or tomorrow, this is when I wish we had a bigger hard drive!
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
New Xbox Live Arcade Titles are headed our way. A list released by the guys over at Gamerscore Blog tells us of some famous titles headed to the Xbox Live Arcade beginning in February. These titles include Alien Hominid HD, Paperboy, Root Beer Tapper, Worms and more. Though no exact date was clarified as to when these titles will be released, these are some very interesting titles that I cannot wait to see in the Arcade.
Link to the Gamerscore Blog press release:
http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/01/30/540428.aspx
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
Haha look at this one sent to me by Corran125 and his partner in crime Arizona Jedi. I guess I knew this one was coming after I saw there was an app where you can make your own achievement label. Look at this:
Alright I guess I do need more achievements. Now achievements=rewards (see post below) which means Im going to attempt to get more achievements.
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
That's right you read the post correctly, rewards for achievements! Now when you hear my favorite noise, you may actually win something. As far as I know Microsoft/Xbox is teaming up with some sponsors and starting a program in which you will actually get rewards for achievements. This will be a free program and you just have to play games and earn achievements. Wow this is going to be interesting for Knuckles Dawson now because this is just an added bonus since he gets at least one achievement per day. Now I guess this will be a little more motivation for me to grab an achievement besides the satisfaction of hearing my favorite noise and racking up some points that really didn't do anything up until I heard this. This program is going to launch next month sometime.
Courtesy of DeaconBlade 360:
http://www.unscripted360.com/2007/01/29/rewards-for-achievements/#comment-14461
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
Welcome to Xcast Episode #18
Wow this was a big show, co hosting the show this week was:
-Founder of the original 7 Xbox 360 Laws.
-Creator of the world famous Unscripted360.com and Unscripted360 the podcast
-MVP on the Xbox.com forums.
-Winner of the Xbox Community Member of the year over at the 2006 Gamertag Radio Community Awards.
-Xbox Live Ambassador who is always willing to answer any one's questions about the service or the console in general.
DEACONBLADE 360!
We talked about all of the news...that we could find going around the industry. I also let everyone know what kind of podcasting equipment I use and what podcasts I subscribe to. I asked Deacon what games he is looking forward to in the new year, what he thought about certain things going around the industry, questions about his show and whatever else I threw in last minute because of the lack of regular news this month. A good time was had by all and I'm looking forward to have Deacon back on the show again soon. I also played a piece of listener mail I received from Corran 125.
Do you want to bring up something for me to discuss on the show? Do you have an idea how I can improve the show? If so then email me your ideas, my email is frank@theman661.com, or you can send me voice messages to my Xbox Live Account.
Download Episode #18 here!
Thanks for listening!
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
Links For Things Mentioned In The Show:
http://www.unscripted360.com
http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/01/25/psp-connect-using-pgr3-screenshot.aspx
http://theman661sxcast.blogspot.com/2007/01/this-one-i-found-surprising.html
http://www.unscripted360.com/2007/01/25/crackdown-demo-impressions/
http://www.unscripted360.com/xbox-360-laws/
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/puzzle/guitarhero2/index.html?q=Guitar%20Hero%202
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioshock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Two
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Pinata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackdown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=Corran125
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=adrenaline96
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=DeaconBlade+360
Xcast Episode #17
I talked a little about the Colts game...that is going to be an interesting super bowl, cant wait for that one. I also went over news like the COD 3 map pack release gone bad, I announced a new contributor to my blog Dan aka adrenaline96 and I went over anything else I could find going around the industry. Want to hear anything new on the show, want to start a discussion send me a message on my Xbox Live Account which is of course TheMan661 or send an email to frank@theman661.com. Stay tuned next week for Xcast Episode #18 with special guest host Deaconblade 360 from the Unscripted 360 podcast.
Download Episode #17 here!
Thanks for listening!
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
Links Mentioned in the Show:
http://www.unscripted360.com
http://forums.crackdownoncrime.com/forums/thread/3834.aspx
http://forums.xbox.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9720092
http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/01/18/battlestations-midway-multiplayer-demo.aspx
http://ozymandias.com/archive/2007/01/16/Your-Thoughts-on-the-Future-of-Live_3F00_.aspx
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2007/0119-gearsofwarjuggernautcontinues.htm?WText.camp=TS1&WText.campSrc=Home
http://theman661sxcast.blogspot.com/2007/01/hello-gamers.html
http://theman661sxcast.blogspot.com/2007/01/welcome-dan.html
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=adrenaline96
http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=DeaconBlade+360
Hey everyone, as you may have noticed we have a new contributor to the blog (read post below). I invited Dan to come help me out on the site a few weeks ago. He has been gaming on the 360 for almost a year now but has just recently registered for Xbox Live so please excuse his gamerscore (even though mine isn't that great either....). I invited Dan to help me out after I realized that I needed a little help running both the podcast and the website and writing all the posts and everything. So send him some friend requests and game invites and welcome him into the Xbox Live Community. Also I'm hoping to record Episode #17 tomorrow night January 22nd 2007, I will most likely get to it, but if I don't I have a special guest coming on next show who I think you will all enjoy. Thanks to everybody who has contributed to the "Active Reload" song, I'm in the process of looking for a beat so if you know anyone that is musically talented, let me know.
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
Hello everybody, this is Dan here. (Gamertag: adrenaline96). Frank has invited me to help him out around the blog and the podcast. So now you are going to be getting posts from both Frank aka TheMan661 and myself. I am good friends with Frank and have been for a long time now. I started gaming on the Nintendo NES, but today I am a regular gamer on the next gen Xbox 360, just like Frank. Me and Frank are going to continue to keep you up to date with all the news going around the gaming industry!
-Dan ( Gamertag: adrenaline96 )
Finally we all have been waiting for this (or at least everyone I talked to is). The Crackdown Demo that was supposed to be released this past week was delayed and now we have an official date. The demo is coming out on Tuesday, January 23rd 2007 at 2:00 AM PT (Check your time zone here). Wow I have been waiting for this, I cannot wait to check out the co-op on this demo! Here is the official forum post over at the Crackdown forums.
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
Come on over and give the Xcast a digg! I submitted the Xcast to digg.com's new Podcast channel a few days ago and it just popped up today after being reviewed. So if you don't have one already, you need a digg.com user name to access the digg podcast channel. So if you dig the Xcast jump over here and submit a digg for the Xcast. Also I picked up Lost Planet the other day and I'm looking forward to play some Xbox Live matches, so just send me an invite and I will try and join.
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
Xcast Episode #16
The NPD group has released the official selling stats for December and Xbox 360 outsold both the PS3 and Wii combined.The Gears Of War Update is here and has caused a sort of "civil war" over on the Epic forums. I found the new maps good and bad. I talked about a few posts over at some of my favorite websites www.gamespot.com, www.knucklesdawson.com, http://www.majornelson.com/ and more. I addressed the issue of Microsoft buying Capcom. I had a little fun with the achievement unlocked sound while talking about the newly released achievements from the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero 2 and Crackdown. As always I also threw in other things that I wanted to talk about.
Download Xcast Episode #16 here!
Links to things mentioned in the show:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25304105&sid=6164175&tag=latestnews;title;0
http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=560548
http://knucklesdawson.com/epic/2007/01/of_friends_fans_and_fun_1.html
http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/01/11/540001.aspx
Thanks For Listening!
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
Bill Gates' Keynote speech at CES is now available. You can stream the video from xbox.com here. This video requires Windows Media Player to work, you can download it here. Or if you want to listen to the MP3 file of the keynote from CES you can get it from MajorNelson.com here. Wow that was a bunch of information to link to, I'm listening to that as I am typing this actually and it is pretty interesting, check it out.
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
Xcast Episode #15
I am back with the first Xcast Episode of 2007! In this episode I discussed:
-Xbox 360 has conquered the holiday competition, we have won the war this holiday season at least
-Germany cracks down on the game Crackdown
-I got another way for you to enter the Halo 3 Beta
-Time magazine calls Sony's PS3 one of 2006's Biggests Busts
-A new rumor involving a new Xbox 360 with HDMI and a bigger hard drive.
-I am looking for blog authors, so if you are interested send me an email
Download Episode 15 here!
Email: frank@theman661.com
Things Mentioned In The Show:
http://www.cesweb.org/default.asp
http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/01/03/539753.aspx
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6163793.html?tag=latestnews;title;0
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6163775.html?tag=latestnews;title;0
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6163441.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570831,00.html
Thanks for listening!
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
The Xbox 360 has beat the competition in more ways than one, one way is with the great online service of Xbox Live and the other is by selling more consoles than the competition. The Xbox 360 sold about 2 million units, while Nintendo's Wii came pretty close with about 1.8 million and Sony's PS3 sold about 750,000 units. I can think of a few reasons why the stats came out like this. First of all is the awesome community that makes up what we know as Xbox Live from the podcasters to the players everyone makes up this great community. Second is probably Nintendo mastering motion sensing capability with the Wii. Third Sony is sort of how should I say lacking exclusive games and the price point is unbelievably high with a machine that puts out pretty much the same graphics as the 360. I know the reason for the PS3 not selling well has nothing to do with it being available or not, like I said I saw a car in my neighborhood with a PS3 for sale sign on it and the PS3 has been seen in stores like Best Buy and Gamespot throughout the USA so you guys do the math either there is no demand for the machine or more than half of people in the world went on a vacation this holiday to a very dark cave where they were cut off from society. So there you have it folks the 360 is doing quite well, don't you agree?
-Frank (Gamertag: TheMan661)
