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Xbox 360 Facts and Features - and Jeff Minter is back...

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Mon, 05/23/2005 - 11:59 — Christoph C. Cemper

Microsofts new tripple-CPU-core powered console will be a really nice gadget for X-Mas… wonder if it'll be avail. in Europe then…

The Xbox 360 Fact Sheet has some impressing facts like detachable 20gig harddrive, WLAN, wireless controllers, HD-TV ready, and much more.

MS gave out Xbox 360 development kits to partners already a month ago and officially announced it last week as you could have read on prime media like

TeamXbox

Wired

CNN (the have a nice game gallery up as well)

BBC

Engadget

TheRegister

The Microsoft Universal Gaming Controller revealed as a prototype at this year's E3 will be designed for use on Windows-based PCs and the Xbox 360, the controller will allow gamers to enjoy a consistent playing experience across Microsoft's gaming platforms.

Quote:

"The universal gaming controller will provide a Windows controller standard that helps game developers bring different genres — such as racing, sports and action/adventure — to the Windows platform more easily," said Chris Donahue, group manager of Windows Graphics and Gaming Technologies at Microsoft. "Gamers will have more playing options with a familiar, versatile and well-designed gamepad-style controller."

That sounds pretty cool – and what I am keen for is Jeff Minter of Llamasoft (creator of the c-64 classic M.U.L.E) who announced he'll be back on the XBox with a music visualization system similar to the one's that come with Winamp.

Some XBOX360 games to be released then will be

  • Call of Duty 2
  • Quake 4
  • Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
  • Madden NFL 06
  • Need For Speed: Most Wanted
  • Ghost Recon 3 (shown)
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
  • The Darkness
  • NBA 2K6
  • Perfect Dark Zero
  • Kameo: Elements of Power
  • Project Gotham Racing 3
  • Gears of War
  • Saint's Row

BBC has another XBOX Q&A up …

I would recommend to check Google for Xbox 360 daily for hot updates on this topic.

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