The 360 thread!

[Terrypantsman]

have to be on tonight matey?



also remember Battlefield bad company, its probably dirt cheap at the mo than had a very groovy artillery device than could flatten buildings in a series of waves in a very entertaining way whole towns looked liked Dresden after I'd been through the game.

[benedictw]

have to be on tonight matey?

also remember Battlefield bad company, its probably dirt cheap at the mo than had a very groovy artillery device than could flatten buildings in a series of waves in a very entertaining way whole towns looked liked Dresden after I'd been through the game.

Would love to be on. Chances of EA getting some servers up, fairly slim. Definitely pick it up for next week though. I suspect this is based off the Bad Company engine. You're right, I'll have to pick it up - theres a lot I've kinda forgotten about. Be good to get a bit of multiplayer in again.

[betamax]

You just have to keep trying over and over until someone leaves and frees up a slot. Can take ages, but is well worth it. I'll be on tonight as long as my spit and sellotape repair of the box holds.

[legion]

Anyone playing 1 vs 100? Ive made it into the crowd and have just won 80 ms points

[legion]

Actually I haven't won anything as im not in the mob

[chub]

I can't find any reference to 1 vs. 100 on my Xbox. Is it a UK-only thing?

[Flabio]

You won't win anything anyway at the moment (read the small print) cause it's in beta. (And I can't win anything off it period, pesky terms and conditions).

Thats also why there are no shows over the weekend, they're only running it while there's people around to watch the debug output etc...

Last nights was very much a UK only run, you could tell from the questions being used. There is an EU wide beta, I think that starts Monday.

[Bod]

I played it last night & my ms points have gone from 300 in the bank to 1200!
(also if you finished in the top 3, you could win a free arcade download)

[Bod]

I played it last night & my ms points have gone from 300 in the bank to 1200!
(also if you finished in the top 3, you could win a free arcade download)

I am indeed a plonker! ... My ms points are still at 300, I looked at the wrong bit (doh!).

[Flabio]

The US version of the beta (which is running a few weeks ahead) starts giving out real prizes this week. The UK and EU betas won't for a while yet.

[ESY]

Playing the US version but not got in the Mob yet. Getting all of the NFL questions wrong while getting all of the Premier League questions right (of course!). These actually tend to land me a lot of points
The best thing about 1 vs 100 is that my wife finally sees the point in my elite

[fog]

This seems like a particularly relevant article around here:

Microsoft Australia is celebrating the continued growth of the Xbox Live online network, but local independent developers have expressed concern that they are being “locked out” of the popular Arcade Marketplace.

While wishing to speak with anonymity to protect their relationship with Microsoft, several local developers have told Screen Play that Microsoft has dramatically reduced the number of independently-developed games it will publish on the Xbox Live Arcade service.

Digital download services like Arcade do not have the limitations of traditional retail distribution like limited shelf space, but it is believed that Microsoft is tightening up the service because of concerns there is too much content available, with one local developer accusing Microsoft of "buckling to pressure" from major third-party publishers.

Screen Play has been told there are now just 35 "slots" a year for independent games on Xbox Live Arcade, but local developers estimate there would be hundreds of titles in development around the world, so many frustrated independent studios will be unable to release their games on the popular service.

http://blogs.watoday.com.au/digital-lif ... dshop.html

[Flabio]

People are looking for a conspiracy here, whereas it's far more likely to just be another symptom of the general cutbacks across the board in the games division at MS.

[The Caffeine Kid]

Ikaruga is 400 points this week, and a crime not to buy if you don't own it already.

I'm soooooo shit at it though.

[benedictw]

Finally picked up Battlefield. All the connection issues were apparently because of the trial. (Trial didnt allow creation of a EA ID - no ID, no game.) So either you had to run a different EA game first then switch to Battlefield or you had to buy the game. So obvious!

Still, got it working last night - after a few hours of playing 1 vs 100. Man thats serious compelling shit. We may have a new crack cocaine.