Wednesday, October 12, 2005 

The hunt for the stolen Xbox360

The hunt in Europe continues for some of the ten Xbox360 development kits that were stolen from a German Warehouse,

Microsoft fears they may have fallen into the hands of hackers. A shipment of ten dev kits were delivered to a warehouse in Germany in unmarked packaging.

They were to be distributed to developers who could use them to create games for the console. However, the shipment went missing and photographs of the kits with the serial numbers removed surfaced on the Internet.

An investigation has already recovered three Xbox360's from several raids in Austria and Germany, but the other seven haven't turned up yet.

 

Real Networks making games for Xbox360 Live

RealNetworks will be making its titles accessible over the Xbox360 Live Arcade. The service which is available in the forthcoming Xbox360 console.

Microsoft is eager to position the Xbox360 console as an extension of the Windows XP media edition rather than as a system for accessing online content in its own right.

Thursday, October 06, 2005 

Launch titles named for 360

The first wave of games for the new Xbox360 console from Microsoft have been announced.

More than 200 new titles are being developed for the next generation console the Xbox360.

Notable by its absence was Halo 3, which some had hoped would be among the early titles available for the machine.

 

The Xbox360 in three colors