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We we’re a bit dubious about posting this so we’re not going to go into depth.  Several rumours suggest that the NXE Dashboard Update is going to be released on 25th September backed up by a 5 hour countdown on TV.  We must point out that this is very much a rumour and we wish it to stay that way until an official announcement is made.  We were always told that NXE is due late November and Major Nelson confirmed this at PAX last week, so once again don’t go by what anyone says until we have official word.

The rumours also carry on with Microsoft giving away six free original xbox titles, and one of them is ‘confirmed’ to be Halo.  Several other items suggest that we have a ton of new content to buy as well as the announced updates.  Wait theres more… Apprantly a few new titles will be announced including Assassins Creed 2, Mass Effect 2 and a new Conker title.  All of this news seems very interesting but highly unlikly.. we wait to be proven wrong.

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles
1 Call of Duty 4
2 Halo 3
3 GTA IV
4 Gears of War
5 Madden NFL 09
6 Rock Band
7 Guitar Hero III
8 Battlefield: Bad Company
9 SOULCALIBUR IV
10 Fable II Pub Games
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The much needed multiplayer mode ‘Conquest’ has now been released onto Xbox Live Marketplace costing you a huge 0 Microsoft Points - That’s right guys its completely free! The full details of this pack can be found below.

Content: Battlefield: Bad Company™ Conquest
Price: Free
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions
Dash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) ALCOHOL REFERENCE,STRONG LANGUAGE,VIOLENCE] An old friend returns! The Conquest game mode was hugely popular in previous Battlefield games and now sees its addition to DICE’s latest blockbuster. Download the Conquest Pack for Battlefield: Bad Company for free and battle it out on four modified maps from the core game. In Conquest mode, the aim is to reduce the opposing team’s tickets to zero. Killing an enemy soldier depletes one ticket per kill, whilst capturing control points on the map causes enemy tickets to count down. See you on the Battlefield soldier!’

Todays new dashboard update is not implementing any new features into the dashboard.. Sorry folks!  We can’t deny that we we’re mystified about the update and we all secretly thought it might of been the NXE dashboard but sadly its only a network update according to Xbox’s Major Nelson.  Damn you  Microsoft for getting all of our hopes up!

Midway have now confirmed that Unreal Tournament 3 will be hitting UK stores on 4th July. This will be great news for any Xbox360ers who have been waiting for this and felt let down by the PS3 getting it first.

BUT to console you when you buy the Xbox version you will be receiving a plethora of extra content giving you a new split screen mode, all the DLC so far released and 5 brand new levels.

Just under a week ago I brought you the story about GAME ceasing to sell preowned Xbox original games (link), at the time of writing it I had no official response from GAME but that has now changed. Read the email after the jump.

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After a few weeks of sitting in 2nd place Call of Duty 4 has regained #1 spot on Xbox Live followed by Halo 3 in 2nd place and GTA IV in 3rd place.  To celebrate Inifinity Ward are giving us another Double XP weekend on all game types and have also introducing a new playlist to make all maps even in rotation (So no more Chinatown 50 times in a row)

CVG have just posted up some new images from Gears of War 2 including new weapons, characters and Marcus using a shield.  Jump to CVG and see the new images.

A quick scan around the net and were confronted with a possible list of features that are rumoured to be in the Xbox Spring Dashboard Update - A few of these features look absolutely great yet others are quite minor… One of the biggest updates in our eyes is the ability to donate microsoft points and.. Drum Roll Please… Group Private Chat! up to four users will be able to chat together which could make clan battles a little more interesting?  The full list can be found after the jump! Continue Reading →

As GTA fever is taking most of us by storm, Rockstar has updated the official site with quite a few new coolies for you to play with. Among them new multiplayer details and shots, new radio stations (L.C.H.C. ftw) as well as tonnes of new flash shorts. Be sure to check it out!

www.RockstarGames.com/IV

Okay so I know we reported a while ago that Fallout 3 will have 12 endings and be around half the size of Oblivion… This is wrong.  It has just been announced that Fallout 3 will now be roughly the same size as Oblivion, Have 200 possible endings all down to what choices you make within the game and will feature around 100 hours of game play.  The game is due for release in Autumn.

The Velociraptor Pack will cost 400 Microsoft Points. The pack was designed to boost the Multiplayer side of the game, and judging by the Live Stats it certainly needs it!  The pack will include 5 maps, 2 of which are remakes and 1 is designed for co-op.  At Xboxer360 HQ were liking the price that accompanys this pack as most map packs contain 3-4maps and are priced at around 800 Microsoft Points.  Can we look forward to more cheaper map packs or is this priced low due to the games lack of players? Only time will tell.

Good news Call of Duty 4 fans!  On April 3rd 4 new maps will be available on the marketplace for 800mp and a new Call of Duty 4 retail pack will be on the selves.  The retail GOTY Edition will include the original game with a voucher to redeem the 4 new maps so if you haven’t got around to buying the game yet do it on 3rd April.

Bungie have been very nice to us gamers and are releasing 2 new gametypes for 2 weekends to celebrate Easter.  Starting tonight at 8pm GMT till the same time on Monday night, you will be able to play Unranked Grifball, which is similar to rugby and involves 2 teams of 4 trying to take a ball into the enemies defence.  Bungie has changed the rules for this slightly but all will become clear when you play.

The other game type is called Team SWAT which was a popular mod from Halo 2.  This gametype starts on 20th March at 8pm GMT and will go through until 23rd at 8pm GMT. 

Both gametypes will earn you Double Experience, so if that isn’t an excuse to play these mods then I don’t know what is!  Bungie have also made modifications to the Herioc DLC, full details can be located here.

Over christmas XBL was ‘problematic’ and Microsoft gifted us all with a free download of Undertow to say sorry. Conviniently, Heres comes the expansion too.. Named Path of the Elect and weighing in at 400 MSPoints, the pack promises five levels in the single player campaign, a new race (the elect) as well as more multiplayer maps. The original was reasonably fun, so this expansion may well be worth a whirl.

The pack will be available on March 5th via XBL.

The Call of Duty 4 patch has now been made available. Huzzah! The patch for Call of Duty 4 includes:

• New Kill Cams
• Host Migration
• Improved Sniper/ACOG Accuracy
• Upgraded Spectator Cam
• Quick Mute Option

Out of all the new updates i’m looking forward to the Quick Mute and Sniper updates!

Some rather tasty news has been found in the weekly Bungie Update, The long awaited Halo 3 Auto-Update will be hitting us sometime next week. The main fix is to problems associated with melee troubles, which, we’ve all wanted to melee Bungie for at times…

In lesser news the Valentines Day Massacre playlist is only available for a few days longer so make sure you get some killing done before you run out of time!

Bethesda mouth Pete Hines has said Fallout 3 will have a much smaller game world than Oblivion - around 50 to 80 per cent of its size.

“The world is much smaller than Oblivion, but packed with stuff to do. We’ve never bothered to walk across the world, but it’s between 50 to 80 per cent of the size of Oblivion,” Hines told Gameplayer.

“One thing we did well in Oblivion was the relative distance between you and things to do in the world. Drop a ball on the map and there’s stuff to do within a certain distance. A world of endless space and meaningless walking is just not fun.”

It reinforces what he said last August - that Fallout 3 will be much more freeform than Oblivion and will revolve around good/evil choices, with nine to 12 different endings to suit various play styles.

He also revealed that the main quest will be about 20 hours long, with 20 hours of side-quests and a yet-to-be-determined amount of hours for miscellaneous quests. Unlike Oblivion, you will have to play through at least a couple of times to unlock all the Achievements, too .

Fallout 3 is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game that sees you exploring a world devastated by nuclear bombs and strange scientists.

Among its boasts are fancy graphics and a combat system where you queue up a string of attacks rather than standing there swinging your sword aimlessly for five minutes.

Alas! The patch for Call of Duty 4 has been sent to Microsoft for certification according to Robert Bowling, Infinity Ward Community Relations Manager.  Considering the patch was announced before Christmas its about time it reared its head for the 360.  The patch updates several issues in the game including:

• New Kill Cams
• Host Migration
• Improved Sniper/ACOG Accuracy
• Upgraded Spectator Cam
• Quick Mute Option

Out of all the new updates i’m looking forward to the Quick Mute and Sniper updates! What are you looking forward to most?

PS. Dont forget our tourney this saturday, only a few places left so check it out!