Yesterday we reported that EA’s SKATE demo would be hitting the Xbox Live Marketplace today and Electronic Arts kept her promise and has placed the demo online. The thirty minutes of SKATE fun will teach you the controls of the game and will let you explore the community center skate park level. The PlayStation 3 demo is almost ready for hitting the PlayStation Network.
2K Games lets us know what they have in their luggage to show off at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention. We’ll be seeing a lot of Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution from Firaxis Games and Top Spin 3 will be at their booth as well.
- Borderlands (Gearbox Software) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3. Release: 2008
- Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (Firaxis Games) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS. Release: Lente 2008 (Wii version: Q3 2008)
- Top Spin 3 (PAM Development) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3. Release: Lente 2008
- NBA 2k8 (Visual Concepts) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2. Release: Herfst 2007
- NHL 2k8 (Visual Concepts / Kush Games) - Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3. Release: September 2007
After the European Xbox 360 pricedrop of today there’s now a rumor running that the first shipment of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Elite is bundled with Blue Dragon. A nice black Xbox 360 Elite with a 120 GB hard drive, HDMI output, free game, 449 euro, tempting if you ask us! Let’s hope this rumor is true.
We say Microsoft made a mess with all those different Xbox 360 flavors and bundles and today they tried to reorganize it a bit by throwing in two new flavors to the Xbox 360 brand. Starting from August 24th the European Xbox 360 Premium with 20 GB hard drive will cost 349,99 euro, a pricecut of 50 euro. The Core edition withouth hard drive gets a 20 euro pricecut and will cost starting from Friday only 279,99 euro. On that very same day of the pricedrop Microsoft will launch the Xbox 360 Elite with a 120 GB hard drive for 449,95 euro, the 120 GB hard drive sold seperately will cost 179,99 euro.
When they’re through their stock of ‘old’ Xbox 360 consoles Microsoft will bring its reviewed Xbox 360 with HDMI gate in two new flavors. The Xbox 360 Premium and Xbox 360 Core will disappear in the shadow of the Xbox 360 Pro and Xbox 360 Arcade. The Xbox 360 Arcade comes with a wireless controller and a 256 MB Memory Card with five Xbox Live Arcade games stored on it, the Xbox 360 Pro is basically the Xbox 360 Premium with a HDMI gate.
Source: Shizzle Games
Electronic Arts has announced that the SKATE demo will be available for download on the Xbox 360’s Marketplace starting from tomorrow. The demo should have already been available, but apparantely there were some technical problems that caused a delay for the skateboarding game. The SKATE demo is the first Xbox 360 demo that features the special upload function that allows EA’s website to receive your homemade SKATE tapes.
3D Realms has announced that they will be porting Duke Nukem 3D, one of the most popular First Person Shooters ever, to the Xbox Live Arcade. Microsoft already knows that 3D Realms has enough folks to port the games said George Broussar. They’re waiting until Microsoft gives them permission to develop the game for the Xbox Live Arcade.
Vivendi Games has release the F.E.A.R. Bonus Map Pack on Xbox Live Marketplace ready for download. In this pack are three new multiplayer maps, and the best part of it is that it’s all for free! Last month we already saw the Nightmare- and Synchronicity Pack coming, nine maps in total for the price of 500 Points. Don’t have the game yet? Pick it up, you never know what the devs are up to in the future!
2K Games didn’t announce anything about a demo, but today they launched a demo of BioShock on Xbox Live Marketplace ready for download. On American communities and weblogs there were a lot of hints to the new demo. With a size of 1,3 GB you’ll be able to keep yourself entertained with some shocking bio until the launch of the game. The PC demo version should come later this month.
Capcom has announced that Devil May Cry 4, which is coming out for Sony’s PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and PC will be playable at this year’s Leipzig Games Convention. Too bad for the public the game will only be playable for the press. The game is set to come out early 2008.