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Week of July 5, 2009
Xbox 360 Dev Kit with 1GB RAM - Exclusive Pictures
>> We received exclusive pictures of an Xbox 360 development kit with 1GB of RAM (as opposed to the 512MB found into retail consoles and dev kits until now). It was already rumoured/announced a while ago that new development kits would get 1GB of RAM to give developers more flexibility and use all the power of retail Xbox360s while still running debug tools. Today we offer you the first pictures of this 'new' device.
While most might expect the extra RAM would just be higher capacity chips on the motherboard, it's not. The extra 512MB comes in the new sidecar. The sidecar is the addon device for dev kits you've probably seen before used for dvd emulation and pix ports.
What you can see on the pictures below is just the 512MB-addon taken from inside the new devkit sidecar and modified/wired to be connected as standalone to a dev kit without the rest of the sidecar.
The dev kit itself is an XNA prototype with jasper-based motherboard and because it has been modified to work with the 512MB-addon without the rest of the sidecar we'll dub it 'Frankie the 1GB XNA' ;)
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Microsoft: We must educate parents
>> From mcvuk.com:
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Regional director of Xbox in the UK Neil Thompson has told MCV that parents are still erroneously treating consoles and adult games as 'toys' - and called on the industry to educate families.
ELSPA member Thompson said that the publishers' body would "corral the industry" into teaching parents the difference between family and adult content.
When asked if parents still needed educatation to understand that consoles weren't 'kids toys', he said:
"The simple answer is yes. As a platform holder we take our responsibility of enabling parents to make the right decisions for their children very seriously. This is why we build technologies into the platform that allow parents to switch content on or off as well as allowing them to control the amount of time the products can be used."
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Full Story: mcvuk.com
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Xbox 360's Shane Kim: Half a Million New Members Every Month
>> From spong.com:
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Microsoft's Shane Kim has been speaking in numbers, and they are huge numbers. In a recent interview he has stated that,"We knew the recession was coming, but we are now adding 500,000 new members to our online games service each month."
That's right, six million new members a year coming to Xbox Liv... oh, no; Shane never said 'to Xbox Live'. He is very careful to have said, "our online game servers".
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Full Story: spong.com
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LiteOn 83850c Solution
>> Great news from Team HyperX....
The LiteOn revision 83850c that has been mainly coming out of repair centers in europe has been fully dumped. More details will come as the firmware is fully decrypted, but at the very worst we have a work-around if all known backdoors are disabled. A solution for this model will NOT be released to public until this version becomes mainstream. E.g. is being shipped commercially with new xbox360's.
Follow the thread below for more details on security as we discover them!
A special note for LiteOn/MTK:
"In Dedication To The Birth Of Mackay On February Twelve 2007" and "MIKE LOVES HELEN"
Dont quit your dayjob yet mike.
Official Site: n/a
News-Source: Team HyperX
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360 Avatar Editor More Popular Than Gears 2, GTA IV
>> From kotaku.com:
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Xbox Australia have recently begun displaying their own localised version of the "top 10 games on Live" chart normally seen on Larry Hryb's blog, and this week's edition contains an interesting tidbit.
Were the avatar editor a piece of retail software, it would have ranked at #4 on the charts. Ahead of Gears of War 2, Grand Theft Auto IV and Fallout 3. To give you an idea of how impressive/strange a feat that is, remember, these charts don't track multiplayer games alone: they track the games people are playing while simply connected to Xbox Live.
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Full Story: kotaku.com
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Natal dev: Natal will spawn new genres of videogames
>> From 360magazine.co.uk:
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360 recently interviewed Johnny Chung Lee, the motion control celebrity who is now working on Project Natal.
* 360: Do you think Natal is likely to spawn entirely new genres of videogame?
* Johnny Chung Lee: "Almost certainly. Most of the current game genres are optimized for the input device that was available. With the additional of motion and pointing sensing, we've already seen several great examples where developers are exploring novel kinds of gaming experiences.
"The lines blur between game categories, and the lines blur between control mechanics. Natal provides a very different set of input capabilities than your typical game pad. To really take advantage of those capabilities, new kinds of experiences will have to be explored."
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Full Story: 360magazine.co.uk
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