Games industry veteran Paul Conry - who is 100% Denki - has joined the company as head of Denki's new test team. Paul will oversee test and quality assurance for all of Denki's current and forthcoming projects. Paul has worked with games companies including Mucky Foot, Lionhead, Broadsword Interactive and Realtime Worlds, for the last three years. His credits include titles such as Fable, Impossible Mission, Blade 2, Super Fruit Fall and APB.
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16 Feb 2009

Psychonauts Soundtracks Now Available

Xbox News from N4G | Psychonauts

Xbox - Psychonauts - Psychonauts Soundtracks Now Available

Psychonauts developer Double Fine has released the official soundtrack for the much-loved game providing fans with an array of options to purchase and download from Amazon, iTunes, Napster etc. There's the official cinematic score and the regular soundtrack to check out.
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3 Feb 2009

Halo Warthog Real Life Vehicle Goes for Test Drive

Xbox News from N4G | Halo 2

Xbox - Halo 2 - Halo Warthog Real Life Vehicle Goes for Test Drive

Gamer nerds rejoice! These are pictures of a functioning, full-size replica of the Warthog, popularized by the video game Halo. Built in Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop, near Wellington, New Zealand, the vehicle will be touring around promotional events and conventions in New Zealand, and possibly elsewhere.
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25 Jan 2009

Metal Arms 2 of interest to Glitch in the System developer

Xbox News from N4G | Metal Arms: Glitch in the System

Xbox - Metal Arms: Glitch in the System - Metal Arms 2 of interest to Glitch in the System developer

Former Swingin' Ape head, Steve Ranck, mentioned that he was interested in acquiring the rights to the Metal Arms series and would "absolutely" be interested in making a sequel.
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3 Jan 2009

The 28 Best FPS Games

Xbox News from N4G | Half-Life 2

Xbox - Half-Life 2 - The 28 Best FPS Games

From the dystopian corridors of BioShock's subterranean "paradise" to the Strogg-infested space stations found throughout the Quake franchise, First Person Shooters have found countless ways to establish themselves as rich, enjoyable experiences, capturing the hearts and trigger fingers of gamers worldwide.

Even if it's just blasting away wave after wave of demons in Blood, or perhaps saving mankind from itself as you traverse Half-Life 2's City 17, the FPS genre has proven itself time and time again.
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23 Dec 2008

Source: Achievements to be patched into original Xbox titles

Xbox News from N4G | Fable

Xbox - Fable - Source: Achievements to be patched into original Xbox titles

A source from inside Microsoft has given us a juicey peice of information, starting Spring 2009 Microsoft are to begin patching achievements into original Xbox titles, starting with Halo: Combat Evolved and Fable and aiming to update the entire back catalogue by Winter 2009. We were told by our source that...
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22 Dec 2008

Grow your psychic little brain with Double Fine's Psychonauts 'Psycho-pedia'

Xbox News from N4G | Psychonauts

Xbox - Psychonauts - Grow your psychic little brain with Double Fine's Psychonauts 'Psycho-pedia'

Destructoid: While we'd love for Double Fine to be quietly working on a sequel to Psychonauts, that doesn't look like it's happening any time soon. But even having their hands full with Brutal Legend, Psychonauts is not forgotten.

"Psycho-pedia," an online compendium of all things Psychonauts related has launched in a pre-release phase over at Double Fine's official Web site. It looks like it will be home to all things Psychonauts related, including game information, fan artwork, and more. It's a work in progress, but there's already some great stuff there, including a bunch of killer concept art.
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9 Dec 2008

New GamesRadar community features launch...

Xbox News | Xbox

Several months ago we launched our very first site-wide community features and we couldn’t be happier with the results. To all of the lovely people who have been commenting on our articles, building profiles, and getting involved in the forums: thanks for making the site better.

But just saying thanks isn’t enough, which is why our stupidly smart team of Interwebs Wizardologists has baked us up a delicious holiday featurecake, packed with new ways for you to interact with the site and each other. Without further ado, this is GamesRadar 4.1: ...

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21 Nov 2008

Sugababes playing Xbox 360 - pictures

Xbox News | Xbox

Last night in London's Bloomsbury Ballroom, Microsoft held a lavish launch party for it's (NXE) New Xbox Experience (Xbox 360's fancy new avatar-based user interface).

In order to guarantee a throng of national newspaper photographers to cover the launch, Microsoft promised a live appearance of actually quite acceptable UK girl group the Sugababes.

The result was very unusual for what was ostensibly a game event - ...

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14 Nov 2008

New Study Shows Violent Games Make Mornings Worse

Xbox News from N4G | Manhunt

Xbox - Manhunt - New Study Shows Violent Games Make Mornings Worse

Negative Gamer writes:

"The paper, published in Acta Paediatrica, used 19 boys aged between 12 and 15 and told them to play one violent, and one non-violent game for 2 hours before bed. Measurements of their heartbeat and movement were measured whilst they played, and during the following night of sleep."

NG have essentially a nice translation of the report from technical talk (though the link to the report is given) into stuff we can understand.

NG conclude:

"So there you have it, violent games clearly have a different impact on the gamer, but not on the quality of their sleep. Saying that, if you want to make getting out of bed easier on a Monday morning, don't play Manhunt."
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