EA will be pulling the internet plug for Four of their Xbox 360 titles which means no more Xbox Live Support for those games.
The following Xbox 360 Games will have there online support discontinued next month.
September 1, 2007 Online Service Shutdown
FIFA Soccer 06
Madden NFL 06
NBA Live 06
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
Personally i think its a joke that they are shutting down any Xbox 360 titles since it will make many achievement impossible to achieve.. Dont you feel sorry for all those guys who have 50pts from one of those games and will never be able to finish them.. I do.. lol.. I'm one of those guys..
Oh well, I guess i dont need to hunt my achievement points on Tiger Woods 06 anymore..
Online retailers mark down Condemned and Ridge Racer 6, but Sega says former game remains full price "as of today."
When it was revealed that $59.99 would be the standard third-party price point for Xbox 360 titles, many-a-gamer lamented. After all, the cost of truly entering the "HD Era," as Microsoft executive J Allard once called the dawn of high-definition gaming, was already plenty high. Besides the $399 a premium Xbox 360 would set you back, gamers would also have to shell out at least $500 for an HDTV. That's not even counting the cost of a subscription to Xbox Live and high-speed Internet service fees for online gaming.
Today came word that two more 360 games would soon bear a smaller sticker price. The online stories for GameStop, EBgames, Amazon, and Best Buy all list Sega's Condemned: Criminal Origins and Namco's Ridge Racer 6 for $39.99.
But while Namco had not returned requests for comment as of press time, Sega did--to deny any price drop had taken place. "We are still at 59.99 for Condemned as of today," a rep told GameSpot. "Sega doesn’t have any product selling at 39.99 for the Xbox 360 at this time."
Calls to several GameStop and EB Games locations added to the confusion. Clerks at both stores said that Ridge Racer 6 was indeed priced at 39.99 new, but that Condemned was priced at $49.99 new.
New Super Mario Bros. keeps kicking on retailer's best-seller chart; Table Tennis makes strong debut on Bestbuy.com's best-seller list.
When Rockstar Games announced it was making a Table Tennis game for the Xbox 360, many were skeptical. Some considered it a cynical move by the publisher to put an E-rated fig leaf over the mound of money generated by its M--and briefly AO--rated Grand Theft Auto series. Still others wondered why gamers would pick up a game based on a pastime that's already played indoors.
Well, the naysayers got paddled this week. According to retail figures from Bestbuy.com, Table Tennis was the seventh-most-popular console game in the US. It was one of six Xbox 360 games in the top 10, including Tom Clancy's Advanced Warfighter (third), Madden NFL 06 (eighth), and Call of Duty 2 (ninth). The regular and collector's editions of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the 360 were fifth and sixth. And though raw figures were not provided, it is likely that if sales of the two Oblivions were combined, it would have been the week's top-selling console title.
The two current-gen console games in the top 10 were number-10 Kingdom Hearts II for the PlayStation 2 and the surprising second-place finisher, Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix for the GameCube, which went back into print after a brief hiatus. The top prize, though, was another title starring Nintendo's iconic Italian plumber. DS favorite Super Mario Bros. was once again the week's top title, proving the popularity of both the venerable franchise and the portable platform. Further cementing the DS's status was the number-three game, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day.
Bestbuy.com Best Sellers: Week of May 21, 2006 1. New Super Mario Bros.
Publisher: Nintendo | Developer: Nintendo
Platform: DS | Category: Platformers
Release Date: May 15, 2006
2. Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: GC | Category: Rhythm Games
Release Date: Oct 24, 2005
An Associated Press tech writer gives his impressions of the new 360 titles out.
If you've scored an Xbox 360, some actual games are going to be the next logical purchase — unless you auctioned it off for thousands of dollars on eBay.
We've worn our fingers to the bone the past few weeks (just for you) playing through the 18 titles available when the system launched. While the offering is diverse, many of the games are merely visually tweaked versions from the older consoles. Worse, Xbox 360 games can cost a whopping $60 — roughly $10 more than games for older systems.
' IGN Entertainment's GamerMetrics is a business intelligence tool that tracks the awareness and activity of over 25 million gamers '
Following is how these games rank in terms of the amount of awareness they are generating with the millions of consumers seeking information about these titles on three of the leading video game web sites: IGN.com, GameSpy.com, and TeamXbox.com.
XBox 360 Launch Titles Buzz Ranked by GamerMetrics:
1. Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft)
2. Dead or Alive 4 (Tecmo)
3. Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts)
4. Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft)
North American video game rental service GameFly, which is allowing its members to request Xbox 360 games ahead of the console's November 22 release date, has released its list of the most-requested Xbox 360 titles, giving an interesting insight into the games that are of most immediate appeal ahead of the launch.
Topping the chart is Rare and Microsoft's Perfect Dark Zero, but Activision's Call Of Duty 2, which was not perhaps initially one of the most high-profile of the launch window titles, has shot up into second place. Also placing highly are titles such as Quake 4 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, though it is appears that the latter has slipped into 2006.
The full GameFly most-requested chart for Xbox 360 titles is as follows:
1. Perfect Dark Zero, Microsoft
2. Call of Duty 2, Activision
3. Quake 4, Activision
4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Take 2
5. Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Electronic Arts
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