Burnout Ships for Xbox
Once again taking to the streets with a next-generation adrenaline rush of fast moving steel, Acclaim today announced that it has shipped Burnout for Xbox. Created by Criterion Games, Burnout was one the most heralded games this past fall for...

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Tuesday, 30 04 2002 by

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Raven Shield Site Launch
Ubi Soft launched the official website for the upcoming first person shooter, "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Raven Shield." The site contains your usual selection of media, including screen shots, sketches, wallpapers, video's and various bits of game information.

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Tuesday, 30 04 2002 by

Nvidia and Microsoft Fight Over Price of Chips
Reuters are reporting that Nvidia is in arbitration with Microsoft over the prices of chips Nvidia makes for Xbox, and a ruling in Nvidia's favor could have a "dramatic positive impact," its chief executive said Monday.

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Monday, 29 04 2002 by

Justice League Coming to Xbox
Midway has announced today that it has secured the license from DC Comics and Warner Bros. to publish videogames based on the Justice League comic book franchise and animated television series featuring the world's greatest super heroes and some of the most well-known villains.

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Monday, 29 04 2002 by

More Midtown Madness Shots
Microsft Game Studios have released a couple more tasty shots from one of the best-selling racing franchises of all time - Midtown Madness 3. Set in two of the most vibrant cities in the world, Paris and Washington, D.C., the game features madcap, over-the-top racing and driving in a fully interactive world.

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Saturday, 27 04 2002 by

UK Xbox Price Cut Kicks In!
Microsoft's drastic price cut for its Xbox comes into effect today. The UK sees prices for the new games console drop from £300 to £199. The new price matches PlayStation 2, the market leader in Europe and in the rest of the world, although it is more expensive than GameCube, which launches next week and has already slashed its price.

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Friday, 26 04 2002 by

Sponge Bob Coming to Xbox
Who said Xbox is just for the older generation? Infogrames and Nickelodeon will crank up the fun factor later this year with the introduction of Nickelodeon Party Blast - a totally wild, ultra-competitive, all-out Nick party game featuring eight Nicktoons stars!

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Friday, 26 04 2002 by

Deathrow Coming to Xbox
Deathrow, a fast-paced team combat sport designed and developed exclusively for Xbox is a no rules, full-contact aggression sport. The fastest, toughest players are victorious and the slow and weak are defeated. The game combines the lightning-fast gameplay of third-person action games with the cooperative team play and gritty roughness of rugby...

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Friday, 26 04 2002 by

NFL Fever 2003 Gets The Pick of The Draft!
It didn't take the Houston Texans long to decide on David Carr as the No. 1 pick in this year's NFL draft. Carr will be included in Microsoft's NFL Fever 2003 for Xbox. Gamers will be able to see all of this year's top draft picks...

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Thursday, 25 04 2002 by

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 on Xbox
"Pull your vehicle over now!" EA plans to drive the highly anticipated Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 game to Xbox. All four titles will be published under the EA GAMES brand and will be available in late summer 2002.

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Thursday, 25 04 2002 by

Codemaster Announce E3 Line Up
Codemasters today announced a blockbuster showcase of its most powerful game brands and new titles that will be unveiled at this year’s E3 Expo. Codemasters’ highlights include the unveiling of Colin McRae Rally 3 for Xbox and the world’s first showing of the company’s biggest development and publishing project to date: the 15-edition Club Football series.

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Thursday, 25 04 2002 by

Xbox Games Set to go Online
Robbie Bach, senior VP of Microsoft's game division, said nearly every Xbox game will eventually let players compete online. "Just like in the last video cycle, you had to move from 2-D graphics to 3-D graphics, we think people will move from no online support to online support being a requirement for everything but a very few games," Bach said

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Wednesday, 24 04 2002 by

Xbox Prototype Controller for Grabs!
Some dude from Bellevue, Washington has put an Xbox prototype controller up for sale on ebay - check here to have a look. The seller claims that You are bidding on a true rare piece, 100% functional, force feedback etc. Note the different bezel from the ordinary controller...

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Wednesday, 24 04 2002 by

Hunter: The Reckoning Goes Gold
Interplay announced today that Hunter: The Reckoning has gone gold and will ship on May 21. In Hunter: The Reckoning, there is evil everywhere, but now a mysterious force has imbued a chosen few humans with not just the knowledge of the evil, but the power to do something about it...

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Wednesday, 24 04 2002 by

Blackley Speaks About His Departure.
Having promptly left the Xbox team at Microsoft, Seamus Blackley, the last member of the original Xbox group said that after three years of proselytizing the Xbox -- first within Microsoft, then with game developers, and finally to consumers -- it's time to return to his first love: making games.

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Tuesday, 23 04 2002 by

Morrowind Coming to PC in May - Xbox Soon!
Ubi Soft announced today that it will be moving up the European release dates for the highly anticipated role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, by Bethesda Softworks®. The PC CD-ROM version will be available in May, whilst the European release date for the Xbox version is still to be finalised.

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Tuesday, 23 04 2002 by

TimeSplitters 2 explodes onto XBOX
Eidos have announced that TimeSplitters 2 is currently in development for Xbox. TimeSplitters 2 is the sequel to the hugely successful and critically acclaimed TimeSplitters - The game is being developed by Free Radical Design and is set for release in Autumn 2002.

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Tuesday, 23 04 2002 by

Xbox Godfather Quits Microsoft!
Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of Xbox and widely seen as the project's father, has resigned from Microsoft, Microsoft and a Blackley spokeswoman said on Monday. "He has left Microsoft to pursue other opportunities," said James Bernard, an Xbox spokesman at Microsoft. "We value his contributions."

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Monday, 22 04 2002 by

Gauntlet Dark Legacy Ships for Xbox
Midway Games announced today that Gauntlet Dark Legacy will ship tomorrow on Xbox. Recreated for next-generation systems, Gauntlet Dark Legacy is a one to four player action-adventure videogame, which allows as many as four game players to battle cooperatively and interact simultaneously.

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Monday, 22 04 2002 by

The Dead or Alive Booster Disc
Tecmo has revealed new details about the Booster Disc for Dead or Alive 3. This exciting extra offers existing owners of Dead or Alive 3 the ability to play with new costumes in the full version of Dead or Alive 3. The Booster Disc also comes complete with a brand-new CG movie starring many of the characters in the game.

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Saturday, 20 04 2002 by

Xbox Weekend News Roundup
Following on from the recent price drop in Europe and Australia, Microsoft has committed $800 million in research and development for Xbox and MSN. Microsoft clearly see's Xbox as the way to global domination in the home and the office, and they are looking at Xbox to help boost a slow-down in PC software.

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Saturday, 20 04 2002 by

Resident Evil: TShirt Giveaway!
Our good friends at Sony (!!!) have donate a bunch of Resident Evil Tshirts, posters, cards etc for you lovely Xfans... Actually the truth is we gave them a button advert on the site a couple of weeks back and they sent us some merchandise. Want some?

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Friday, 19 04 2002 by

NBA Inside Drive 2003 Announced for Xbox
Microsoft Game Studios today announced it will release NBA Inside Drive 2003, its exclusive basketball title for Xbox this fall in time for the start of the 2003 NBA season. Hopefully the Nuggets will have sorted themselves out by then...

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Friday, 19 04 2002 by

Kermit, Miss Pigget etc Coming to Xbox
TDK Mediactive has announced that Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, The Great Gonzo and other Jim Henson characters will be coming to Xbox. "The colorful Muppet characters and their hilarious antics are tailor-made for videogames," said one of the big cheeze's at TDK Mediactive. No word has been received on whether 2 other Muppets - Minoru Arakwa and Trip Hawkins will make guest appearances...

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Friday, 19 04 2002 by

Xbox Live Launch Titles Confirmed
Microsoft have confirmed that the following titles will be launched with the Xbox Live service (online}: MechAssault, Whacked!, Unreal Championship, Ghost Recon, NFL Fever.

No news on Halo2 - which has to be one of the most eagerly anticipated videogames ever...

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Thursday, 18 04 2002 by

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Comes to Xbox
Ubi Soft unveiled today the latest creation inspired by the works of world-renowned novelist Tom Clancy. Splinter Cell is a third person stealth action game, featuring cyber-terrorism, shadow agencies, and covert operations and is set in the realistic, highly detailed geopolitical universe as portrayed by Tom Clancy.

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Thursday, 18 04 2002 by

Xbox UK Drops Price to $288
The video-game worlds worst kept secret has finally happened. Microsoft, under increasing pressure from consumers and publishers have dropped the price of Xbox in Europe to €299/£199. This brings Xbox into the same price as PS2 and the yet to be launched Nintendo GameCube.

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Thursday, 18 04 2002 by

THQ Urge Microsoft To Drop Xbox Price
In the latest sign that sales of Microsoft Xbox video game console could be flagging, the chief executive of game publisher THQ on Tuesday urged price cuts for the console, in Europe if not elsewhere, to spur sales of the machine.

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Wednesday, 17 04 2002 by

Minority Report Comes to Xbox
Activision confirmed yesterday that Treyarch is in development on a Minority Report game for Xbox. Inspired by Steven Spielberg’s upcoming feature film, Minority Report puts players in the role of a PreCrime Police Officer wrongfully accused of murder.

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Wednesday, 17 04 2002 by

Morrowing Delayed until May
GameSpot has learned that Bethesda will be releasing the Xbox version of Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind sometime in May. The Xbox version will be released after the PC version, which is scheduled to go gold the first week of May. No specific reason was given for the delay.

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Tuesday, 16 04 2002 by

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
Xfans are to get a dedicated edition of the million-selling military simulator Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. The Xbox edition is being developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio, creators of the original PC title, and will contain the entire original game along with an additional prequel campaign called Resistance.

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Tuesday, 16 04 2002 by

LucasArts Snags Wrath with The Collective
LucasArts today announced it has, following intense competition, acquired the rights from The Collective to publish Wrath, one of interactive entertainment's most highly sought after games. Wrath, expected to release on Xbox in 2003, is a dynamic arcade-style game with a turn-based element that uniquely blends strategy and action.

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Monday, 15 04 2002 by

More Football (Soccer) For Xbox
Midway Sports announced today that RedCard 20-03, an all-new adrenaline-style 11-on-11 (including goalies) soccer videogame is scheduled to ship for Xbox this spring - just in time for the Japan/Korean World Cup Finals.

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Monday, 15 04 2002 by

Xbox Weekend News Roundup
Unconfirmed rumors abound this week regarding Activision buying Rare. If this turns into a real-deal, Xbox could see couple of titles one wouldn't have expected a couple of months ago... Other news is that Sega has signed former Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch as the official spokesperson for NCAA College Football 2K3 on Xbox.

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Saturday, 13 04 2002 by

Shadow of Memories From Konami Unveiled
Konami of Europe has lifted the lid on the latest of its enviable roster of development studios, with news that September will mark the release of the first games to emerge from its newly established European research and development team KOE.

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Friday, 12 04 2002 by

Fila World Tour on Xbox
Promising to be the ultimate Xbox tennis simulation, Fila Tennis (working title) builds upon and extends the formula popularised by Virtua Tennis. Boasting four modes of play, with the promise of 64 player online tournaments...

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Friday, 12 04 2002 by

Big Mutha Truckers Coming to Xbox
Empire Interactive today announced it will be publishing Big Mutha Truckers from Eutechnyx (the dudes behind James Bond, F1 and Le Mans 24 Hours)for Xbox. BMT sees the player take command of an 18-wheel rig, trucking from city to city, wheeling and dealing and upping the stakes as they battle to build up a personal fortune.

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Wednesday, 10 04 2002 by

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Screens
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic is being developed by BioWare and features an original story set some 4,000 years prior to the timeframe of the Star Wars films in an era dominated by an epic conflict between the Jedi and the evil Sith...

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Tuesday, 9 04 2002 by

Managers Need Not Apply
European Xboxers will be dancing with the knowledge that Championship Manager: Season 01/02 will be making its console debut on Xbox in April (thats Soccer to you and me). Miles Jacobson, the big cheeze over at SI said, “we've been waiting years for a console with a hard drive that could handle Championship Manager, so we’re very pleased to see Championship Manager: Season 01/02 on Xbox."

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Tuesday, 9 04 2002 by

Halo Sells By The Boatload
Hailed widely as "video game of the year" and recipient of multiple industry awards for excellence, "Halo: Combat Evolved" has earned the distinguished honour of being the fastest million-unit seller ever for any next-generation console. According to NPDFunworld...

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Tuesday, 9 04 2002 by

Razorworks on the Xbox Racing Trail
Empire Interactive have announced a new racing title - Total Immersion Racing that combines the highest quality driving technology, real-world racecars & tracks and immersive gameplay. The player can choose a career path that leads from being the lowest ranked driver of a GT sportscar all the way to becoming a world champion driving a massively powerful 8 litre prototype racecar.

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Friday, 5 04 2002 by

European Xbox Price War
Gamespot are reporting that a major price war was initiated by German retail chain Media Markt, which sold the Xbox for 399 euros ($350) instead of 479 euros ($420). Other chains have followed suit. Media Markt has also started another price war--for example, one of its stores in Regensburg is offering the Xbox for 149 euros ($130)...

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Friday, 5 04 2002 by

2005: The New Console Wars - PS3 vs. Xbox 2
A new report just published by independent market analysts Datamonitor, reveals that the next 3 years will bring buoyant growth to the electronic games market globally, spearheaded by console games. The report states that PS2 will remain as #1 console, Xbox as #2 and Gamecube bringing up the rear...

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Friday, 5 04 2002 by

Xbox Numbers from Japan: The Last Word
Enterbrain (game magazine) are reporting that Xbox game console got off to a slow start in Japan, selling 190,092 units between its launch on February 22 and March 31. Microsoft would not comment on sales figures, but the Japan debut was marred by a few complaints from users that the console was scratching game discs and some stores halted sales temporarily.

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Friday, 5 04 2002 by

THQ Adds Outrage to The Mix
THQ today announced that it has added gaming veterans Outrage Entertainment to its internal studio roster. Based in Michigan, the team at Outrage Entertainment is best known for its PC gaming roots at Parallax Software, creators of Descent. The studio is currently developing an original action game for Xbox that THQ will unveil at E3.

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Thursday, 4 04 2002 by

Nice Little Lotus Wheel for Xbox
Radica, the dudes behind the Gamester accessories have today announced that they have entered into an exclusive co-operative marketing agreement with Microsoft, giving them unique access to all Xbox UK promotional events for the rest of the year.

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Thursday, 4 04 2002 by

Framestore CFC Delivers Xbox 'Mosquito'
Want to know how Xbox is being promoted in the UK? Designinmotion have published the 30 second clips on their website. Detailing the pre and post-launch adverts: Mosquito and Champagne. XBOX365 still think that the giving birth advert was still the best!

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Wednesday, 3 04 2002 by

Atari's Splashdown Makes Waves on Xbox
Squeegee your TV 'cause Xbox is getting wet. Complete with authentic Sea-Doo watercraft, a crazy cast of characters and the most insane waters found on Earth, Splashdown brings the speed and skill of watercraft racing to the stunning world of Xbox.

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Tuesday, 2 04 2002 by

Toejam & Earl III Boogey Exclusively On Xbox
Sega announced that ToeJam & Earl III will be released this fall exclusively for Xbox. Harking back to the classic Genesis system, the fourth installment in the series will deliver an all-new, fully immersive, fully "funkified" 3D gaming experience. Created by ToeJam & Earl's original development team...

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Tuesday, 2 04 2002 by

Thrustmaster and Konami Saddle Up Together!
Konami of Europe and our friends at Thrustmaster have joined forces to release a flightstick specially optimized for use with Konami’s Deadly Skies air combat title for Xbox. Both companies have worked extremely closely in the creation of the Top Gun Fox 2 Pro and both are confident that it represents the ultimate in flightsticks for Xbox and is a welcome alternative to the basic Xbox controllers.

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Tuesday, 2 04 2002 by

Six Xbox Titles Make the All Format Top 20
Six games for Xbox appeared in the top-20 sales charts for early March, demonstrating the continued success in North America. For the period between March 3 and March 16, the Xbox was the No. 2 console on the top-20 sales just behind the PS2 but way ahead of GCN.

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Monday, 1 04 2002 by

AnimaTek Brings 12 DC Titles to Xbox
Taiwan-based software developer AnimaTek announced that it will modify 12 Dreamcast games for Sega to support Microsoft’s Xbox game console. AnimaTek pointed out that it received the contract through its parent company, Cool Net Entertainment (CNE), which formed a strategic alliance with Sega recently.

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Monday, 1 04 2002 by

Analysts claim that Xbox has flopped
Analysts claim Microsoft's Xbox games console has flopped around the world. They say it has come a poor second to its arch-rival, Sony's Playstation 2. Analysts say sales have been so poor that it may force a cut in price of the £300 Xbox. It's more than £100 more expensive than Sony's rival console. What the hell do analysts know?

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Monday, 1 04 2002 by