ARS: Meeting with Microsoft's Scott Austin to talk about Xbox Live, there was little expectation of sexy reveals or big news, and what we saw during the briefing wasn't flashy in any way. But there was still some really good news for Xbox 360 owners: Microsoft is getting set to update Xbox Live in a number of ways to make it easier to find and buy content. The big news is that games will be priced in your local currency, and you'll be able to buy with a credit card, bypassing the point system altogether. That's not all.
"We're going to have 30 or more games launching in August, worldwide, in all markets. We'll also be adding new content in all of our markets weekly," Austin explained. This is the Games on Demand service that was announced after the Microsoft press conference: you'll now be able to buy full-sized, big-name titles directly from Xbox Live and download them to your console.
Game Rant talked to Suda51 about a potential sequel to Shadows of the Damned, and here's what he had to say.
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
Game Rant chats with the creator of No More Heroes about who he would like to see play the role of Travis Touchdown in a live-action adaptation.
Actually Ryan Gosling makes a ton of sense.
Edit: If this can be done in a Scott Pilgrim movie kind of way that would be dope.
...no one I hope. But MS people should really stop gloating when Sony implements features that gamers want, but were on on the 360 first. It's good for all of us when things like that happen. It makes the whole industry evolve and opens up room for growth.
It means that I can buy points for cheap and get bargains. For instance the COD 5 pack was £7.99 on PS3 or 800 points on 360. This worked out to (due to cheap points from whsmiths (2100 for £14.85)) £5.65. That to me is a bargain
Finally, I don't want points lying around.
I really had no problem with points, I know the point price range so I was never bothered by this.
Glad they are getting rid of points.Now I can purchase content without having to get a bundle of points with it that I don't need