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Specialus Star Wars X360 Editionas :

UPDATE: Xbox marketing man Graeme Boyd has confirmed via his Twitter feed that the Star Wars bundle will be available in Europe, though didn't volunteer a price.

ORIGINAL STORY: A limited edition Star Wars-themed Xbox 360 bundle goes on sale in the US later this year to tie in with the launch of Star Wars Kinect, Microsoft and LucasArts have announced.

The set, priced at $449.99, sees the main 320GB console unit get a R2D2 skin, while the controller gets the C3PO treatment. The 360 has custom Star Wars sounds built in for when you turn the power on or open the disc tray.

You'll also get a white Kinect sensor, a standard wired headset, a copy of Star Wars Kinect, Kinect Adventures and access to "exclusive downloadable content".

Microsoft hasn't confirmed a European release yet, but we're chasing. Amazon has started taking US pre-orders

Kinect Star Wars game

320 GB Hard Drive

Xbox 360 Wired Headset

Kinect Adventures game

Exclusive downloadable content

A US company has sued Microsoft because it believes motion-sensing add-on Kinect infringes its patents.

Impulse Technology alleges Kinect infringed seven of its patents for technology that tracks users' movements and lets them play video games without a controller, Patent Arcade reports.

Impulse's patents describe a “system and method for tracking and assessing movement skills in multidimensional space".

According to the company the patents cover a “wide variety of games where the movement of a player is tracked in three dimensions… and certain exercise games where the motion of the player is tracked to effect movement of a virtual avatar, and the exertion of the user is monitored, including where the tracking of the player is done by use of a camera.”

Impulse adds Kinect game makers, including EA, Sega and Konami, as defendants. They're all guilty of making, selling and importing into the US games that infringe several of their patents, it claimed.

Now it wants a permanent injunction, damages, interest, attorneys’ fees and costs. Microsoft said it was reviewing the complaint and had no comment to make.

Kinect has sold a whopping ten million units since its November 2010 launch. It is the fastest-selling consumer electronics device of all time.

Kinect Star Wars game

320 GB Hard Drive

Xbox 360 Wired Headset

Kinect Adventures game

Exclusive downloadable content

 

O tas auksinis valdytuvas labai derinasi prie balto komplekto? Man kažkaip nelabai.

O tas auksinis valdytuvas labai derinasi prie balto komplekto? Man kažkaip nelabai.

 

Ten million selling Xbox 360 motion-sensing add-on Kinect is the most accurate analogue input device gamers have ever had, Elite creator David Braben has said.

"If you think of the analogue stick for example, if you just show the position of the analogue stick on the screen as a blob, it jitters around all over the place," Braben, whose Frontier Developments made Kinectimals and is worling on Kinect Disneyland Adventures, told Eurogamer in a new interview published this morning.

"When we first got analogue controls we thought, oh yes, you can use it like a mouse. But actually, you can't. It's not precise enough. The mouse is pretty precise, but that's only because that's also a relative device.

"So the way we tend to use analogue sticks is you're doing it as the direction of movement you're controlling. You're not controlling position. Similarly with the mouse, the wheel underneath has got the phase counter on that tracks the relative position. It's just incremental.

"So it feels accurate. But actually it's not that accurate. Same with the analogue stick. So, there's a perception of accuracy."

Kinect's accuracy was called into question when the sensor was released in November last year.

Some launch titles failed to provide the accuracy demanded by their gameplay. But the second wave of Kinect games should provide much better accuracy as developers get to grips with the technology and Microsoft improves the software.

Now, nearly a year after launch, Braben describes Kinect's accuracy as "unbelievable".

"It's one of the first things where you can actually use the position directly as a position, not just as a relative movement. That is a change. We haven't come to terms with how best to use that. We're getting better with each stage."

Apie X360 ir PS3 pardavimus ir kiek MS konsolė priekyje lyginant su Sony....

Avatar Kinect'as jau čia..

Ir čia pabaigai šiek tiek fun

Naujo dizaino slim'o pultelis ir headsetas

Microsoft has announced a new wireless headset for the Xbox 360.

Available worldwide from early November, it's compatible with any Bluetooth-enabled device, such as a phone or PC, as well as your console.

The US price is $59.99 (around £36.50), though a European tag is yet to be confirmed.

In addition to the headset, Microsoft is also readying a new media remote for the 360. Controls include play/pause, skip forward, fast forward, skip back, fast back, and display to control DVD, CD or streamed media.

The TV controls include power on/off, volume up/down, mute and TV input. It also has A, B, X, Y buttons, D-pad navigation, back and select for easy menu navigation.

Like the headset, it will be available worldwide from early November, priced at your local equivalent of $19.99 (around £12).

Razer Onza Tournament Edition skirtas pajungti tiek prie xbox360, tiek prie pc

Anonsuotas naujas X360 Slim "neblizgus" editionas (tiem kam nepatinka dulkės ir pirštų antspaudai )

Anonsuotas naujas X360 Slim "neblizgus" editionas (tiem kam nepatinka dulkės ir pirštų antspaudai )

 

 

Pagaliau susiprotėjo.

Pagaliau susiprotėjo.

 

Man irgi tie blizgantys slimai nelabai buvo,ne dėl teplumo,bet šiaip akį labai rėžiantys :D

Beje,ši X360 versija yra 250GB,o apieGB versiją nieko nebuvo užsiminta,bet manau,kad ir ją išleis...

Man tai tas naujas X'o modelis daug gražesnis net jeigu abu būtų ir "nečiupinėti".

Xbox gamerscore rekordininkas

The gamer who holds the world record for the highest Gamerscore has just hit 600,000 points.

 

Guinness World Record holder Raymond Cox, aka "Stallion83" on Xbox Live, earned fresh Achievements that took him from half a million Gamerscore to the new milestone.

 

Cox revealed on his blog, 1milliongamerscore.com, that he unlocked Achievements in the recently-released Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, Dirt 3 and The First Templar to help him edge over 600k.

 

He's now one step closer to his one million Gamerscore target. "A lot of good upcoming milestones to look forward to and a lot of good games to play this fall. And by a lot, I mean it. So much to look forward to," Cox said.

 

Cox has played over 800 games in his quest, including titles released across multiple regions and platforms.

 

To celebrate 600k, Cox put out a training montage, below.