The 360 thread!

[Flabio]

Wasn't someone say the RRoD problem is fixed now?

Havn't you defected to the PS3 yet?

[benedictw]

Wasn't someone say the RRoD problem is fixed now?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2 ... turns.html

You can get RROD if the power supply isnt plugged in correctly as well.

[benedictw]

Gears of War 2 is about to be announced. (Xbox europe released the PR an hour early!). Coming in November.

[Flabio]

There you go. XNA games free to download for everyone. Youtube of Games. We got there in the end

[Mark]

There you go. XNA games free to download for everyone. Youtube of Games. We got there in the end

Hehe - I've just mentioned this in the XNA thread in Programming. Awesome stuff. Absolutely brilliant.

[Flabio]

And we're on (we being Fable2)...

[Mark]

And we're on (we being Fable2)...

Nice idea with using the XBLA gambling game to raise funds for the main game. Sounds cool.

He's betting on stuff, and now he's got 1000 gold that he can spend in the game world. "What you're seeing there is actually an Xbox Live Arcade game outside of Fable, and what I am able to do is take the money I win from that XBLA game and move it into the Fable world."

"Imagine two games talking to each other." He's very excited about this. "We are going to be releasing this XBLA game a few weeks before we release Fable 2." You can build up stocks of cash with Keystone and then when you get to Fable 2 you can go and buy stuff. Woo.

[Mark]

Sweet! The XNA demos are available now. There's a launcher available from the marketplace. Download that, then go to your games list. There should now be a new XNA section in the twist menu thing. Navigate across to that, and then hit Y to open the list of games available to download. I've just tried the Dishwasher, and it's pretty damned good. Really looking forward to seeing where this leads, and - if I can get my arse in gear - getting something up on there myself.

[benedictw]

The flower game is surprisingly compelling...

[teamonkey]

Culture just hard-locked my 360.

[fog]

This XNA news is superb. Very tempting

Although, considering how much fun I have with existing XBLA games, I might never buy another full price game again. Hell I might never pay for another XBLA game if the XNA freeware scene is half as good as the PC one. I can't remember the last proper commercial PC game I bought.

EDIT:
Oh yeah and N+ didn't do anything for me.

[benedictw]

Eee, the Dishwasher is pure awesome. I'm not a fan of fighting games but this is Ninja Gaiden II 2D with cartoon violence, more claret than a wine cellar and a fighting system that works really well.

[PVB]

Dishwasher reminds me of that old PS 1 game, which was a really difficult (for me anyway) cartoony-cell shaded/Flash-type game, sort of a beat-em-up with platform-y sections too. Buggered if I can remember the name of it though.
Edit: Viewtiful Joe.

Culture's a bit of a stoner's game, innit?

[Rod_S]

One for PVB:






This is by Gearbox, so chances of it being well above average are high.

More scans - http://games.tiscali.cz/news/news.asp?id=26192&r=top

[Deckard]

Didnt really like any of the xna games although the jelly truck one was quite compelling/interesting - 17 days seems an odd amount of time for free trial though...oh and its horrible seeing old arcade faves crash 'n burn but how bad is Discs of tron