Sony Aims To Step Up Sales and Dethrone Nintendo (NewsFactor)

Posted July 24th, 2008

NewsFactor – Nintendo’s Wii may be in the lead, but Sony is looking to reach the 150 million sales mark for its PlayStation 3 video-game console within the next few years.

Microsoft Lets Xbox Live Users Build And Sell Their Own Games (TechWeb)

Posted July 24th, 2008

TechWeb – InformationWeek – If it passes a peer review, the creator will receive up to 70% of the total revenue generated by the game.

Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games (Reuters)

Posted July 24th, 2008

Reuters – Microsoft Corp will turn to
users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the
types of games available on its console, taking a page out of
the strategy books of Facebook and YouTube.

Games for Windows Live Multiplayer Now Free (PC Magazine)

Posted July 24th, 2008

PC Magazine – At the Gamefest 2008 event on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that all Games for Windows Live multiplayer features are now free.

Microsoft’s Xbox Live to Sell User-Designed Games (PC Magazine)

Posted July 24th, 2008

PC Magazine – At the Gamefest 2008 Conference keynote Tuesday, Microsoft chief technology officer Chris Satchell revealed updated plans for the company’s XNA player-created games initiative.

XBMC for Xbox 2008-07-15 SVN rev14095 build – T3CH

Posted July 24th, 2008

T3CH released a new SVN compile (rev14095) of XBMC for Xbox (XboxMediaCenter(info)).This T3CH-compile is a complete snapshot of what is in SVN at the time the build was compiled, with just a few small additions.
Special Notes and Added/Noteworthy/XML/Script changes:* It’s time for the final but oh so crucial FINAL VOTE in SF CCA 2008! It [...]

XLink Kai v7.4.15

Posted July 24th, 2008

Team XLink released a new version of their global gaming network (that allows you to play system-link enabled games (incl. Xbox and 360) online for free):[QUOTE]Kai(info) 7.4 has been out for just over a week and we are happy to report over 20% adoption. Thanks to everyone for your bug reports and skin contributions.
Of course, [...]

Atari7800x v5

Posted July 24th, 2008

Madmab released a new version of Atari7800X(info) – an Atari 7800 emulator for Xbox1 – on our forums.What’s new/fixed:**** Mess core related changes ****-ROMS loaded via Samba/Relax now work properly.-Fixed fast forward so you can actually see what is happening. All it really does is set frameskip to 9. Anything higher causes display issues. I’m [...]