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Petition Starts to Save Chromehounds Servers (News)

Aug 15, 2009

That Gaming Site writes: "Just moments after announcing the January 2010 shutdown of the Chromehounds online servers, a petition to save them by the remaining fanbase has sprung up."

Sega Putting Chromehounds Servers To Sleep (News)

Aug 15, 2009

Xbox 360 mech sim Chromehounds is about to have its online component put to sleep. Sega will be taking the game's multiplayer portion behind the barn, hopefully ending its life with the first shot.

Platinum Xbox 360 line continues with more cheap games (News)

Feb 6, 2007

If you're a fan of the Xbox 360's Platinum Hits line up, then you'll be glad to hear that four more games will soon be added to that list.

According to Xbox Japan, the Platinum Hits line will now include:

Chromehounds
Burnout Revenge
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
Perfect Dark Zero

Top Ten Microtransactions Of 2006 (News)

Jan 2, 2007

This list was compiled by Gamersfeast using data from Microsoft's website.

1. Need for Speed Carbon - $35.73 - Electronic Arts
2. The Godfather - $30.80 - Electronic Arts
3. Test Drive Unlimited - $30.61 - Atari
4. Oblivion - $24.11 - Bethesda
5. Chromehounds - $23.74 - Sega
6. Call of Duty 2 - $14.99 - Activision
7. Tiger Woods 07 - $14.24 - Electronic Arts
8. Ridge Racer 6 - $11.99 - Namco
9. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - $11.24 - Ubisoft
10. Eragon - $10.00 - Vivendi Games
10. Kameo - $10.00 - Microsoft
10. PGR 3 - $10.00 - Microsoft

Armored Core 4 Release date Revealed (News)

Jan 2, 2007

The 360 has a fair selection of Mech games, with Chromehounds already out and Lost Planet available in some regions already, and most by the end of January 2007. Still, considering the need to drive the 360 in Japan and the fact that most gamers like giant machines with guns on them that remind them of transformers a new mech game is not a bad thing. Armored Core 4 was announced for the 360 a while ago, but only now do we have an official release date of March 22nd 2007 for the game.

War World - Prepares for Live Arcade Release! (News)

Nov 28, 2006

Third Wave Games' War World is looking all set for release on Xbox Live Arcade within the next six months we've been told this morning. This stompy robot Chromehounds in miniature PC game looks like being a sure-fire winner for the Live Arcade format. Third Wave are currently hard at work trimming the game to meet the 50MB Arcade limit and tweaking the graphics and gameplay to match the Xbox 360's capabilities.

New Chromehounds update (News)

Sep 7, 2006

An update is out now to correct some problems. However, check this out. This translated Chromehounds website tells us about the update. The text is a little bit broken up, but you can get the gist of it.

New Chromehounds Content (News)

Aug 18, 2006

New in game content for 'Chromehounds' is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace.The following content is available for 100 points each in all Xbox Live regions except Mexico.

Light arms 01
Heavy arms 02
Light arms 03
Light arms 04
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Light arm s05
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Generator 01
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Color Pattern 03

New Chromehounds parts coming, at a price (News)

Aug 10, 2006

From Software's mech action game, Chromehounds, has already seen three free downloadable parts up on Marketplace. Unfortunately, the next batch of downloads will come at a price. Hit read more for the details.

Chromehounds (Review)

Aug 8, 2006

Tuesday 8 August 2006 Screwing the lids on bottles of pop, bomb disposal and putting little boxes in bigger boxes: there are many jobs that we rely on robots to do for us, tasks too dull, dangerous or repetitive for fleshy humans to bother with.But look! Here comes Chromehounds to show us exactly how dull things can get and how boring it can be when you've got metal skin and cameras for eyes. It should be great. It should be 60-foot towering titans blasting buildings and tearing across a ...

Top Xbox LIVE Games for the Week (News)

Jul 31, 2006

Looks as if Call of Duty 2 is still the champ this week (for Xbox 360), but Chromehounds has made a strong showing as well... What game coming up can knock off Call of Duty 2?

First Chromehounds Content Pack on the Way (News)

Jul 18, 2006

SEGA's brand-spankin' new mech title Chromehounds ( is already getting a downloadable pack on the Xbox Live Marketplace according to a SEGA site mod at the official site. It should be available on Marketplace on July 19.

The pack includes two guns, an assist part and a new color pattern for the mechs. The pack comes free, according to FromSoftware and SEGA as a "thank you:"

Chromehounds Stomps Into Stores (News)

Jul 12, 2006

It's time to boot up your 360s once again! SEGA has announced that it has shipped Xbox 360-exclusive mech-combat game Chromehounds. In addition to single-player action, the game allows players to join squads of up to 20 people and duke it out over Xbox Live.

Chromehounds (Review)

Jul 11, 2006

When will science fiction become fact? Like flying cars and hoverboards, giant robots should be a fixture in society by now; sadly, we must still turn to video games to get our hands on the death tech that should be rightfully ours. In this respect, Chromehounds rules all by providing an incredibly realistic and inherently gritty mechanized combat simulator. Of course, this game isn't for everyone because it's not your average run-and-gun. Chromehounds demands a lot from the 360 enthusiasts ...

ELSPA Weekly Chart - Xbox 360 (News)

Jul 11, 2006

Chromehounds enters the chart in top spot in it's first week of release knocking off Over G Fighters which lands into second place in the chart...

GameFly U.S. Rental Chart Sees Xbox 360 Dominate (News)

Jul 6, 2006

This week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending June 30, highlights the popularity surrounding already released games, as well as giving an excellent hint as to what game titles might be popular in the future.

The week's requests from GameFly customers were dominated by titles for the Xbox 360 platform, with Sega and From Software's upcoming Xbox 360 mech combat title, Chromehounds on top for the week. Take-Two and Human Head's upcoming Xbox 360 first-person shooter Prey was the second most requested title on the chart, followed by Ubisoft's Taito-developed Xbox 360 aerial combat game, Over G Fighters.

Build-your-own-nightmare (Feature)

Jun 30, 2006

While fiddling around during our hands-on time with Chromehounds, we discovered a few tricks of the trade we'd like to clue you in on so that you'll be fully prepared to slap together a brutal robot of ultimate destruction. We've compiled our little handbook of how-to horror, and to seal the deal we captured video of the building process (sped up for the sake of time) along with our titanium terrors in action on the battlefield. So drink deep from our well of kill-bot carnage knowledge. You ...

Chromehounds - heavy gunner build (Video)

Jun 30, 2006

Mechs blasting the hell out of each other on and off Xbox Live. It's as simple as that.

Chromehounds - soldier build (Video)

Jun 30, 2006

Mechs blasting the hell out of each other on and off Xbox Live. It's as simple as that.

Chromehounds - scout build (Video)

Jun 30, 2006

Mechs blasting the hell out of each other on and off Xbox Live. It's as simple as that.

Chromehounds Demo Online! (News)

Jun 29, 2006

You can now download a demo of 'Chromehounds' from the Xbox Live Marketplace. This free demo is available in all Xbox Live regions EXCEPT the U.S. and Canada. Yes, you read that right...this demo is not available in the U.S. or Canada.

Chromehounds Garage (News)

Jun 28, 2006

Every week, Jesse James and a rag-tag group of shop monkeys attempt to build a beast of a vehicle nearly from scratch. Chromehounds has its own "monster" garage, albeit a bit more futuristic and high-tech than what is seen on the Disco Channel.

The Chromehounds Garage is a utopia for those that like to make a synergistic whole through a sum of parts. Many of us have construction in our DNA; from baking a cake "outside the box", to a scale model of the Bay Bridge- all in LEGO- and everything in between.

The notion of putting together a HOUND (Chromehounds's mechanized ground fighters) from a parts bin full of pieces is quite exciting for those that feel the Constucticons were the best Transformers ever. Our guess is that even those without the penchant for manufacture will find the Chromehounds garage as an addictive, never-ending quest towards HOUND perfection.

Chromehounds: Multiplayer hands-on (Preview)

Jun 16, 2006

Participating in a mech-blasting multiplayer match in Chromehounds is an exercise in awe management. This game's flawless lighting and amazing combustion effects really make it hard to focus on your goals, because you may find yourself spending a little too much time gawking at the hot graphics. Once you've gotten over the "oh my god, look at all the shells coming out of my machine guns" phase, you're ready to settle into a profoundly tactical trial by steel and flame. While the temptation to ...

Chromehounds is Golden! (News)

Jun 16, 2006

Just received word from Sega that their upcoming Mech game Chromehounds is now Gold!

Chromehounds brings intense multiplayer HOUND combat to the Xbox 360 for the first time ever. In this massive global conflict, three nations with opposing political views have erupted in an all-out war. From the cockpit of a giant metal "HOUND", you must power your tower of heavy artillery through giant war zones while backing five others on your squad and dodging the firepower of six other live players via Xbox Live.

Chromehounds (Preview)

Jun 15, 2006

Thursday 15 June 2006 It's almost 3am and you know you ought to get some sleep, but if you can just find a way to shed some more tonnage from your colossal steel monster, there might be some room to strap a fourth or fifth machine gun on there. Tweaking the variety of cannon ammunition to a lighter grade, sacrificing some firepower for weight loss, grants you the few precious pounds you need to add that final weapon... now you really should go to bed, but you have to test your giant robot out ...

Chromehounds: single-player hands-on (Preview)

Jun 13, 2006

It's almost three o'clock in the morning, and you know you ought to get some sleep, but if you can just find a way to shed some more tonnage from your colossal steel monster, there might be some room to strap a fourth or fifth machine gun on there. Tweaking the variety of cannon ammunition to a lighter grade, sacrificing some firepower for weight loss, grants you the few precious pounds you need to add that final weapon... now you really should go to bed, but you have to test your giant robot ...

Chromehounds (Screenshots)

Jun 13, 2006

Chromehounds Achievement List Revealed (News)

Jun 2, 2006

The achievement list has just been revealed and like many games it is long and will feature unlockable points in the story mode and also in the online world. In total there are 49 achievements totalling 1000 GamerPoints. Take a look at the full list below (please note there are seven scret achievements not present in the list).

Incoming Chromehounds goodies (News)

Jun 2, 2006

Chromehounds simply will not stop assaulting us with new glimpses of what is rapidly becoming the most anticipated game of July. This batch of content focuses predominantly on the frigid wastes of the Morskoj region of Neroimus (the fictional European setting of the game), featuring a bit of rocket-launching, explosive-shell-lobbing ...

E3 06: Chromehounds Hands-on (Preview)

May 12, 2006

We got a chance to strap ourselves into these massive machines for a little 5-against-5 mech-blasting action, and discovered a new world of adrenaline-fueled delight. After just a few minutes of this communication-heavy team combat, we were hooked. Chromehounds broadsided us with its attention to every ...

Another salvo of screens (News)

May 4, 2006

Even more screens were released today for the upcoming 360 exclusive robot battler Chromehounds. Offering up several metric tons of mechanized carnage, Chromehounds delivers multiplayer machine massacres over Xbox Live. Set in a sort of post-apocalyptic European battleground where nations have been deprived of their radio communications by erratic solar flare activity, wars must be fought using giant Hound ...

Chromehounds screen assault (News)

May 3, 2006

Wednesday 3 May 2006 Sega has released a fresh batch of screens from its upcoming Xbox 360 robot combat epic, Chromehounds, which is due for release in spring. The images feature two classes of Hounds - snipers and defenders - that come outfitted for their specific jobs. Snipers attack from a distance and scout enemy positions, while defenders are heavily armoured, heavily weaponed assault-lords. Look for more Chromehounds coverage during E3 when we'll be jumping in the cockpit for some ...

Storm of steel (News)

Apr 27, 2006

We got a fresh batch of screens from the new robot combat epic Chromehounds. This batch features two classes of Hounds called Snipers and Defenders that come outfitted for their specific jobs. Snipers attack from a distance and scout out enemy positions while Defenders are heavily armored, heavily weaponed ...

Chromehounds (Preview)

Feb 25, 2006

Gearheads with a fetish for giant, customizable robots have long loved the Armored Core series. And if we're being honest, it's gearheads and nobody else, really; the fanbase is as obsessive as it is small. But for gamers who want to build their own battling mechs and tune them like the futuristic, heavily armored hot rods they are, Armored Core has no ...

Shiny new Chromehounds shots (News)

Feb 15, 2006

From Software has let slip its canines of combat with this cohort of screens from the Xbox 360-only robot shooter, Chromehounds. Designed to be played mainly online, this Live powered mech assault pits the robots of three nuke-ravaged nations against each other for places on a permanently running roll call of robo-carnage. But dispensing death and despair from your lumbering droid isn't the only aim, for a strategic element will also be added by players taking on distinct roles in their ...

Secret Super Weapons (Unlockable)

Jun 15, 2009

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Hint - Leg Up Training (Hint)

Aug 15, 2007

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Hint - Unlockables By Rank (Hint)

Aug 15, 2007

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Show your Honors! (Unlockable)

Jan 2, 2007

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HOUND and ACV Possibilities (Hint)

Oct 10, 2006

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Silver Patriot Medal (Unlockable)

Aug 25, 2006

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Gamerscore Points (Unlockable)

Jul 20, 2006

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