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Get ready to be one of the first to purchase a Natal sensor for xBox. It's going to be the newest and most innovative thing since the Wii release. You don't have any wires or controllers. It's all you playing the game.

Xbox Natal should be released by the end of 2009. Be on of the first. If you haven't really heard about it, check out the Project Natal.

Basically what you do in your own game room, bedroom, or living room, is reflected on the screen via the Natal sensor that has both voice and face recognition for up to four people at a time.

Microsoft hasn't released the price yet, but it's rumored at $500. Everyone is hoping that will include a console, and not be just the price for the sensor. Hate to say it, but not gaming accessory is worth $500 no matter how new and innovative it is. The thing better include the sensor and the console.

There will initially be 10 games released, but you better keep your original console because none of the current games will be compatible with the sensor, which is a bummer but seriously, they're just not programmed for motion sensing control.

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Halo Wars Will Never Go To PC

November 18th 2008 00:34

Graeme Devine told VideoGamer that there is absolutely not chance that Halo Wars will ever be released as a PC game. He said that Microsoft may announce it, but he'll say that it will never ever happen.

Halo Wars is a console game, and it was designed to work on a console. So let's keep it on a console.

In a way, I think that this is a such as shame, as I bet there are tons of gamers that would be willing to purchase Halo Wars on PC, especially if they allowed an online version so that you could play with other gamers, similar to the XBox Live feature.

Devine insists that they created the game as a controller game. He believes that Halo Wars is a sole console game.

I just think that if it cam down to it, one day they just may bring it to PC, if the want was great enough.

Let's put the effort into Halo Wars 2, rather than making Halo Wars work on PC. Halo Wars is a console game, and it was designed to work on a console. So let's keep it on a console.

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Fallout 3 Censored

November 6th 2008 08:16

So, Australia has has rejected Fallout 3 becuase of drug references. The game has to be edited so that Australia will approve the game, but since one country rejected the game, everyone has to suffer the censorship.

An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names. To avoid confusion among people in different territories, we decided to make those substitutions in all versions of the game, in all territories. I didn't want people continuing to assume the version in Australia was some altered version when it's not. There are no references to real world drugs in any version of Fallout 3."

It all started with Fallout 3 was refused a classification by the Australian Office of Film and Literature becuase of the use of morphine for limb pains . According to the Office’s guidelines, “material promoting or encouraging proscribed drug use” is refused classification.

In mid-August a revision was made so that the game could get a rating in Australia. And, although everyone thought that the revision was only going to be for Australia, but the VP of PR and marketing says that the revisions will be released in other territories to include the US and Europe.

We want to make sure folks understand that the Australian version of Fallout 3 is identical to both the UK and North American versions in every way, on every platform.

The revision basically removed the references of morphine, and replaced it with fictional names. They want Australians to know that everyone will see the substitions, and not just them.

I didn't want people continuing to assume the version in Australia was some altered version when it's not.” Finally, he explained that, “There are no references to real world drugs in any version of Fallout 3.

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Californians Sue Over Xbox 360 Flaw

November 2nd 2008 18:59

It was bound to happen at some point in time. A lawsuit has been filled over an XBOX 360 flaw. Silly, if you ask me, but hey, some people find their gaming more of a passion that I do. California inhabitants filled the lawsuit becuase of the Xbox 360 Ring of Death, or RROD.

Basically, the lawsuit alleges that there too many Xbox 360 consoles have experienced hardware failures, and that Microsoft knowingly manufactured the faulty game consoles.

As evidence, the lawsuit uses articles from various gaming publications and sources to include dailygamenews.com, VentureBeat, Digital Media, and Yahoo! All of the publications, as with others, state that Microsoft knew about the faulty hardware as far back as November 2005. The publications state that Microsoft knew that about 50% of the Xbox 360 consles were defective.

The lawsuit seeks a court order to force Microsoft to pay off the disenfranchised Xbox 360 owners with all the profits that they made from selling the console. A RROD refund, so to speak.

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