The latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine features some rumors regarding the upcoming year of gaming for the Xbox 360.
* Crackdown is being delayed until February 2007.
* We probably will not be hearing any news about Unreal Tournament 2007 until after the PlayStation 3 version is released.
* An official Microsoft arcade controller is on the way.
* There is a new Oblivion expansion pack in the works after Knights of the Nine.
Darren writes: "Despite much moaning and groaning, Xbox has had some smashing console exclusive games during its four generation lifespan. Crackdown was one such game, released in the early years of the Xbox 360"
Still one of my all time favorite games. It hurt to see what happened to Crackdown 3 😔
Gamerheadquarters; "With the jump in power from the Xbox Series X all Xbox 360 and Original Xbox titles that are backwards compatible should be enhanced as soon as they’re available."
They’ve been working the past few years and have become proficient in that department so I definitely think they are capable of such a feat. Their BC through emulation that can natively upscale blows my mind and gives them an advantage over competitors using multiple hardware settings which requires higher clock speeds and produces more heat.
I caught Chaos Theory on sale and was actually blown away by how it scaled on the One X.
I imagine that they'll carry over the functionality of the X regarding playing previous gen games to the series X.
They better have good support for backwards compatibly.... Since they have no 1st pay games LMAO 😂
“compatibly”, “1st pat games”: Are those supposed to be “compatibility” and “first party games”? Doesn’t really come across as an adult. No disrespect, legit question: is English not your first language?
And xbox one games, there are many underperformed 3rd party games that needs frames boost.
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NONE of these are "rumors".....it's all old news, pretty much.
-Yes, Crackdown was delayed until "Spring 2007"...a couple MONTHS ago.
-UT2007 for the 360 is in fact in development, along with the PS3 version, as confirmed by my friend Bill Greene at EPIC, 4 MONTHS AGO.
-We've already seen pics of the 360 arcade controller
-Bethesda went on record long ago to say that KoTN was NOT an "expansion", but a true expansion was definitely planned.
I don't think all of this is old news.
- The timing of UT2007 for Xbox 360 had not been known yet.
- The arcade controller that is on sites like Gamestop and EBGames is not from Microsoft. The one in the rumors is an official one.
As for the other things, they were even less than official rumors, which, when they come from magazines like OXM or EGM, are quite often facts that the source did not want to be quoted on.
So, yes, maybe this news doesn't set the world on fire but it is still news.
I hope there is an xbox 360 version on UT2007, it would not make sense for Epic to release it on the PS3 and PC only. Its going on a Microsoft windows oprating system and one on Sony's system, it does not make any sense why they have not annouced it, although it could be, because of Gears of War being the "Baby" of Epic Game Studios.
...I'm not blaming you. OXM is just an awful source for gaming "news/rumors"....rea d Game Informer instead, or stick to websites (which are at least a month ahead of magazines).