Gamers Evolved

Xbox Live will be adding a whole new channel to their line-up – the social gaming channel. This is yet another chance for Microsoft to bring in some of the more casual and laid back gamers. They want the ones who are not addicted to certain games and therefore do not always have the interest in playing. They are using “programmatic, highly concurrent social interactive games” to reel them in.

In other words you can expect to see “game shows” or Xbox Live versions of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Jeopardy. It will also feature some concepts in the genres of “Trivia, Reality TV, Puzzles and Sports” that will allow them to play live event and to win some virtual prizes.

Europe is happy to be receiving Unreal Tournament 3 for the Xbox 360 a weekend early. Midway confirmed the news that it will be arriving on the 4th of July – which is three days earlier than the game will be hitting stores in the U.S.

They also stated that the Xbox version will be available with all of the downloadable content available to users on the retail disc along with split-screen support, and five new maps. The split-screen support will allow human players in the local area to play.

One of the more popular games on PS3 – Metal Gears Solid DLC – is making its way to Xbox 360 gamers and I think we can all agree that this is something we have been looking forward to for quite some time. For now this is just a rumor and we are still waiting for the official announcement from Microsoft.

However, good sources are telling us to start celebrating and to prepare our pocketbooks. There shouldn’t be any problems with the game converting to Microsoft. In fact they may find that this will boost their sales and give them an edge in the console war.

Many of us who have an Xbox 360 are waiting for the day when the light goes from green to red. You know that when your console starts flashing red than it has died or has it? There is a trick you can try that might bring it back to life.

What you need are two large bath towels, a stopwatch, and an outlet. First you need to unplug your console from the television and powerbrick it to the closest wall outlet.

Cameron Suey the producer of the new Star Wars: The Force Unleashed stated that, “Between the Xbox 360 and the PS3, if we’ve done our job right, they’ll be indistinguishable. We really wanted to make the same sort of polished, high-end next-gen experience on both those versions.”

He went on to explain that both versions will be void of the multiplayer feature because it would have distracted them from putting everything into the story line and all of the features needed for the single player mode.