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September 13, 2005

Xbox 360 Live Pricing for europe

TeamXbox reports that Microsoft reveal details on the live pricing for Europe... For 39,90 GBP which are about 72 USD or 59 EUR gamers can amplify their gaming experience with a 12-month Xbox Live Gold membership.

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May 23, 2005

Xbox 360 Facts and Features - and Jeff Minter is back...

Microsofts new tripple-CPU-core powered console will be a really nice gadget for X-Mas... wonder if it'll be avail. in Europe then...

The Xbox 360 Fact Sheet has some impressing facts like detachable 20gig harddrive, WLAN, wireless controllers, HD-TV ready, and much more.

MS gave out Xbox 360 development kits to partners already a month ago and officially announced it last week as you could have read on prime media like

TeamXbox
Wired
CNN (the have a nice game gallery up as well)
BBC
Engadget
TheRegister

The Microsoft Universal Gaming Controller revealed as a prototype at this year's E3 will be designed for use on Windows-based PCs and the Xbox 360, the controller will allow gamers to enjoy a consistent playing experience across Microsoft's gaming platforms.

"The universal gaming controller will provide a Windows controller standard that helps game developers bring different genres -- such as racing, sports and action/adventure -- to the Windows platform more easily," said Chris Donahue, group manager of Windows Graphics and Gaming Technologies at Microsoft. "Gamers will have more playing options with a familiar, versatile and well-designed gamepad-style controller."

That sounds pretty cool - and what I am keen for is Jeff Minter of Llamasoft (creator of the c-64 classic M.U.L.E) who announced he'll be back on the XBox with a music visualization system similar to the one's that come with Winamp.

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