Xbox 360
News: What’s new on Xbox Live Marketplace…
A fairly poor week saved by someone stopping, collaborating and listening…
The activity on Xbox Live Marketplace this week has been… well, lacking.
News: Exclusive Left 4 Dead NXE theme with issue 49
Bring infected hordes to your Xbox.
Subscribers will be getting their copies of issue 49 about now, and with it an exclusive Left 4 Dead Premium Theme for your Xbox 360 dashboard, created by the masters at Valve.
Blogs: Music Is Control
Gil muses on soundtracks altering gameplay tactics…
Due to my iPod being thieved and my portable HD on the frizz, I’m currently back to using my Xbox 360 as a music CD player. So a brief blast of Outrun the other night finds me foregoing the usual audio delight of Magical Sound Shower for a heavy stint of industrial rock by way of the custom soundtrack option - and it bizarrely led to a better gameplay performance.
News: Serious Sam gets HD makeover for XBLA
The frantic PC first-person shooter is given the spit and polish for XBLA relaunch.
Serious Sam: The First Encounter is on its way to Xbox Live Arcade.
News: Bethesda acquires id Software
Developers behind Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein have been acquired.
ZeniMax Media, the parent company behind Bethesda, has acquired id Software.