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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade, Rumors

Making an appearance on the ESRB ratings website is an entry for Live Free or Die Hard. Nothing overly special here as it’ll probably end up being just another sub-par movie based game … but wait. The ESRB website lists the Live Free or Die Hard developer to be Sensory Sweep Studios who have worked on numerous DS and PSP titles with their only Xbox connection being Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting for the XBLA. So, it’d be logical to expect Live Free or Die Hard to end up being an Arcade title. Interesting. We can’t really come up with gameplay ideas to blend a blockbuster action movie with the XBLA other than the obvious game where you see who can scream “Yippee-ki-yay motherfrother” into the headset the loudest. Yeah, that’d be one Arcade game we’d enjoy playing with our family.

[Via Game Stooge]

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Filed under: News, E3

Talking to Reuters, head of Konami’s North American and European operations Kazumi Kitaue expressed their less than optimistic feelings about the PS3 and its latest price cut. “I wonder if Sony can win back user support by the price cut of just $100” Kitaue said, “I don’t expect a substantial impact … With $500, you can buy a personal computer“. Very opinionated and strong words coming from a developer who is supposedly creating a highly anticipated game (see Metal Gear Solid 4) exclusively for Sony. So, it’s even more interesting and revealing to hear Kitaue’s response to a question asking about MGS 4 exclusivity where he goes on to say that “Metal Gear Solid was born for the PlayStation, we would like to keep it a PlayStation game. But we might have to take some steps“.

There you go fanboys, we’ve added some fuel to the Metal Gear Solid 4 is 360 bound fire as it has yet to be drowned out. You’re welcome.

[Thanks, blackrome]

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace, E3

Less than an hour ago we were graced with our first Bringing it Home XBLM content which offered up gamer pictures and a theme. And now we’re happy to announce that we have our first Bringing it Home demo! Up for download off the Marketplace is a NCAA Football 08 demo coming in at 684MBs of what we expect to be full of football fun. Though, this cannot be guaranteed. We welcome football fans to give the demo a download, tell us what you think and share your overall impressions as we aren’t overly familiar with the genre. Heck, maybe you could count every frame in a second to see if the game runs at its promised 60 FPS.

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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace, E3

And so starts the promised E3 Bringing it Home Marketplace content with a few Devil May Cry 4 downloads. Available for the picking today is the HD DMC 4 trailer featured at last year’s Tokyo Game Show, a theme, and a set of DMC 4 gamer pictures. The five gamer pics feature Nero, Dante and Kyrie and will run you 100 Microsoft points while the theme will set you back 150. Keep your dial tuned into X3F as we’ll be keeping an eye on all the Bringing it Home downloadable goodness throughout the next few days.

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Filed under: News, E3

See something a little out of place above? Yup, far left, see that? It’s an Xbox 360 … but gray!

The big Microsoft E3 press conference airs tonight and so the Gamerscore Blog crew took a few pictures of the venue (a high school) where all the fun will be going down later and posted them to their Flickr account. But they obviously posted photos that they shouldn’t have and quickly pulled a bunch of pictures featuring the venue and the rehearsal. But Joystiq reader Rickard Gudbrand was quick to take a screenshot of the one gray Xbox image (but we found a higher res one here) before it was pulled. Indeed, it is a gray 360.

So, what does this gray Xbox 360 mean? Well, we aren’t sure and will have to probably wait until the press conference later tonight, but we’ll go out on a limb and say it may have to do with either a price cut or be a reworking of what the Core system offers. Microsoft … always wanting to surprise as if it were Christmas in July.

>Update 1: We’ve stumbled upon a higher resolution version of the leaked photo. Enjoy.

[Via Joystiq]

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Filed under: Podcasts

We’re at the tail end of a very jet lagged trip to E3, but that wasn’t enough to keep us from bringing you yet another episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast. This week, we talk about Bungie Day, the latest in Rock Band, Virtua Fighter 5’s 360 enhancements, and of course, we discuss the newly extended Xbox 360 warranty. Dowload, listen, and enjoy, or pay the price.

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Happy Bungie Day!, Bungie adds to the Beyond the Beta blowout. campaign screenshot love
60 FPS football on the 360
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VF5 360 has online play
Blue Dragon Demo
Rock Band hands on and Videos and price differences
MSFT fails to reach 12 million sold
UT3 to ship with 3-4 dozen maps
360’s Warranty extended to THREE years! (is it enough?)

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Fantalk: The new Xbox 360 warranty

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Filed under: News, Game announcements, Videos

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Spark Unlimited unveiled their latest project which features a Pandora’s Box full of mythological creates titled Legendary: The Box. The game is based around the idea that you play a thief who is hired to steal a special box from a NY museum and when you’re curiosity gets the best of you, you open said box and unleash what could possibly be mankind’s destruction. This Pandora’s Box brings griffins, werewolves, and other monstrosities to Earth and it’s your duty to shove them back into their box or send them to hell. It’s a very interesting concept and quite the interesting trailer as it’ll be something we’ll keep our eye on in 2008. View the E3 trailer above and read through IGN’s hands on preview after the jump.

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Filed under: Deals and Bargains

Canadian gamers are in for a treat this week, because Future Shop has an Xbox 360 deal you can’t refuse. This week Future Shop is offering the Premium Xbox 360 Forza 2 bundle for $499, but they are also throwing in three free games to boot! The three free games included are Crackdown, World Series of Poker: Tournament Of Champions, and Hitman: Blood Money plus Forza 2 equals four free games with a 360 purchase. Now that’s what we call gaming in a box. Though, we recommend holding out until tomorrow night to see if the rumored 360 price drop happens. If not, go get yourself a 360 … you deserve it.

[Thanks, DjDATZ]

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Filed under: News

Falcon. That’s the code name for the project that’ll not only make future Xbox 360s more reliable and make the hardware cheaper, but will also help Microsoft sleep better at night. Over at The Mercury News, Dean Takahashi talks about the Falcon project and how the new 65nm technology could be the answer to Microsoft’s red ring woes. It is expected that the new 65nm CPU/GPU combo could be implemented as soon this Fall and would seriously help with hardware stability as the smaller chips produce less heat. The benefits are enormous and range from cheaper hardware, to more reliable chips, to less heat being generated. With project Falcon being so beneficial it’d be hard to believe that Microsoft isn’t pushing to get the technology up and out the door as soon as possible. This Falcon could very well be the single best thing to ever happen to the 360.

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Filed under: News, Halo 3, Rumors

Recently, the guys over at the 7th Columnist did some digging and stumbled upon what looks to be a render of the rumored Halo 3 Brute Excavator weapon. If you aren’t familiar, mention of the Excavator was discovered while digging through the Halo 3 beta code a while back, but Bungie has been quite mum about any details or acknowledgment of its existence. The Excavator render could easily be a fake, but it looks eerily similar to a weapon that was held by a Brute in the “Et Tu, Brute?” ViDoc. It’s up in the air and for you to decide if this is our Excavator rendered in the flesh or if it’s all hogwash. Now we just want to know if we’ll be able to wield a Gravity Hammer come September.

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