Ciarán Walsh

Category: XBox

  • Playstation 3 details announced at E3

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    The Playstation 3 details have been announced at Sony’s press conference at the E3 expo. You can see the details for yourself over at Eurogamer. However, two items in the specs caught my attention. First, this: Communication: Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2) Why would the PS3 need…

  • XBox 360 will be backwards compatible – sort of

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    At last night’s pre-E3 Microsoft press event about the XBox 360, it emerged that only the “best selling” XBox titles will be compatible with the XBox 360. Eurogamer has the details here. This sounds to me like the hard disk will include pre-compiled binaries of the most popular games. The program code for games such…

  • "Movies, music, downloadables. And, oh yeah, games."

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    The MTV special on the XBox 360 was shown in Ireland on Friday night. Having read some comments about it, I wasn’t expecting much detail – and boy did I not get it! The sub-heading in MTV’s article about the XBox 360 says it all. This was all about music, multimedia, changeable face-plates, and being…

  • Geek makeovers

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    Seth Godin has come across J Allard’s makeover. He doesn’t quite get the fact that Geek on Stun have use the marketing hype about the high definition next-gen console and dubbed Allard’s transformation as “HD Allard”, but it’s still interesting to see how the man has changed.

  • Halo 3 not a launch title for the XBox 360?

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    Some of the reports on the launch of the XBox 360 last night have commented on the fact that Halo 3 is not on the list of launch titles announced. This is not too surprising given the relatively short time since Halo 2 was released. One comment that seemed to make sense is that Microsoft…

  • XBox 360 details from Tom’s Hardware Guide

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    Tom’s Hardware Guide has a good article about the technical details of the XBox 360 here. 1 Teraflop of processing power used to be what supercomputers had!

  • XBox 360 officially launched

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    Well, it’s official – it’s the XBox 360. Check out the official XBox 360 web site for pretty interactive images of the hardware. Check out this promotional video from Microsoft. Gamespot have a in-depth set of articles about the new console. I’m sure that there are lots more sites with official info out there, and…

  • XBox 360 details being revealed tonight

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    MTV are hosting a special show on the XBox 360, and more and more details about the console are emerging online. The show airs tonight in the U.S., and tomorrow in Ireland and the U.K. Eurogamer have continuously updated coverage here. Much of the information is speculation based on leaked images, or images from ourcolony,…