Anybody signed up for Shadowrun Beta Test?

To qualify you need:

*Either an Xbox 360 with a hard drive or a high end PC running Windows Vista.

*An Xbox Live Gold account.

*Broadband access.

*Enough time to play from home on a regular basis.

*A willingness to communicate on the beta forums.

Xbox 360 is using 160 watts while PS3 is using 380 watts.

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Nope, you still can play on standard TV.

Nope, Xbox 360 can scale to 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p depending on what cable you use and which resolution your display can support.

The game takes about 30GB of space.

Guys, I'm selling some of my 360 games. Refer to my sig. Some of my PC component starting to fail to work; I need cash to replace the parts.

December 2006 Backward Compatibility Update?

For a brief moment in time, an updated version of the Xbox 360's backwards compatibility list was exposed for all the internet to see. Though it was yanked in a matter of minutes, one new entry stood out like an atomic mushroom cloud in a serene, children's playground. Not to imply that Psychonauts is capable of melting children or flooding large masses of land with deadly radiation, but its presence was rather devastating to the psyche.

In case you weren't aware (and clearly you aren't much of the time), Tim Schafer and his team at Double Fine did extraordinary things with Psychonauts, managing to take the seemingly incompatible platformer and adventure genres and mash them together like two pieces of clay. That's before they twisted the whole mess into a variety of amusing shapes.

Oh, there's a whole bunch of other new games too. However, when asked about the exact release date of this December update, Microsoft warned us that the list is not final. "We'll have more news soon -- as I'm sure you're aware with any software development, things can change at any time so we want to make an announcement when we're sure we've got the final, solid list."

View the non-final, slightly wobbly list of additions after the break.

The following games are listed as "new" in the preliminary December update list:

* All-Star Baseball 2005
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Dead or Alive Ultimate
* Destroy All Humans!
* Dynasty Warriors 4
* Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
* Fahrenheit / Indigo Prophecy
* Family Guy
* Far Cry: Instincts
* Incredibles
* I-Ninja
* Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
* Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
* Moto-GP
* MX Unleashed
* Open Season
* Pariah
* Psychonauts
* Rainbow Six: Lockdown
* Rapala Pro Fishing
* Scarface
* Shark Tale
* Shenmue II *
* Splinter Cell: Double Agent
* The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
* Ultimate Spider-Man
* Wakeboarding Unleashed: Featuring Sean Murray
* Whacked!
* Winback 2: Project Poseidon
* Xiaolin Showdown

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Dead or Alive Ultimate is in the list. My wish *almost* come true!

Backward-compatibility update will only be downloaded if you insert Xbox 1 game into your Xbox 360 console.

I thought the HD-DVD drive come with free King Kong movie?

Microsoft has released XNA Game Studio Express that can be used to develop games for both Windows & Xbox 360. Membership fees is only USD 99/year.

I'm kind of interested to develop games for Xbox 360. If only they'll allow us to sell the game on marketplace....

This post has been edited by mzaidi: Dec 17 2006, 11:00 AM

Don't you dare to mock General RAAM, or else he'll chainsaw you when you're sleeping.

Hail to General RAAM!

LOL, I thought he like girls who wears perfumes made from Kryll's shit?

My final exam starts today. After exam finishes, I'm going to buy Lost Planet & R6V. Hopefully internet (and Xbox Live) speed will be restored by then.

US Ver Jan 12th 2007
Jap Ver Dec 22nd 2006.

Jap version is confirmed in English.

Anybody know if we can get / find Microsoft Zune in Malaysia?

"Her" birthday coming soon, she's asking for Portable Media Player. Thinking of buying Zune for her, if I can find one here.

I kinda like Zune's design. Anyway, I'll consider the player you've suggested . Thanks.

Microsoft is launching Windows Vista at my campus (MMU Cyberjaya) today and tomorrow. Every staff & student is eligible for a copy of Vista Business Edition. They are also an exhibition of Xbox 360. I saw Gamers Hideout's business card around the Xbox 360's booth. Didn't see Djinn anywhere though.

I forgot to take the booth's picture.

There are Xbox 360's exhibition, talks, Vista & Office 2007 Demo, and seminars, but it seems like everybody was more interested to get their free copy of Vista. I have to queue for 3 ½ hours to get my Vista copy, the event starts at 11am, and I came at 10:30am, but there's already a huge crowd there. My number in queue is number 706.

I have some pics, but they're lots of noise artifacts. The lighting in the hall is kinda dim, and my phone's camera didn't have flash.

This post has been edited by mzaidi: Feb 27 2007, 02:28 PM

Yup, full version. I'm not sure whether it's retail or OEM version. They're not giving Vistas in Retail boxes for sure. To get your copy of Vista, you must bring your Student ID, a piece of blank DVD. Each student will be given unique cd-key. According to the MS rep, the cd-key is valid till 2012.

The process to get the Vista is tedious. You have to queue up at any booth, complete a task (answer some questions, watch their demo, etc), and they'll give you 1 stamp. There are 7 booths, but you only need to collect 5 stamps, and then you can claim your copy of Vista.

The catch is like I mentioned in the previous page.

Long queue outside the hall, have to complete 5 tasks and get 5 stamps, after you got 5 stamps, you have to queue again 3 times, the first it to show to the committee that you have completed 5 tasks, and got 5 stamps. The second time, you have to queue up to get your CD-Key. The third time is to get them to burn a copy of Vista installation disc.

In the end, you have to queue up in 9 long lines. 1 time to get into the hall, 5 times to complete the tasks and get the stamp, 3 times to get your CD-Key and your Installation Discs.

Took me 3 ½ hours to get my Vista.

They didn't give us Vistas in Retail Box. You have to bring a blank DVD, and they'll burn a copy for you. Microsoft's representative was there, so I think it's legal. They give each of us unique CD-Key.