Xbox 360 Weekend Warrior: Banninations, dumb-o-nations, DLCs
Microsoft‘s gotten itself into another noisy controversy the past week. They’ve taken quite a beating, with devs calling them a “dumb PC”, and activists hounding them for once again banning an XBL user for identifying in her profile information that she’s a lesbian. To say that the Xbox 360 blog’s week was “interesting” is a grave understatement. Let’s get this green carpet rolling, then! We present you the biggest Xbox 360 news this week!
Originally posted on Feb 27, 2009 at 05:25PM
Originally posted on Feb 27, 2009 at 05:25PM
Microsoft‘s gotten itself into another noisy controversy the past week. They’ve taken quite a beating, with devs calling them a “dumb PC”, and activists hounding them for once again banning an XBL user for identifying in her profile information that she’s a lesbian.
To say that the Xbox 360 blog’s week was “interesting” is a grave understatement. Let’s get this green carpet rolling, then! We present you the biggest Xbox 360 news this week!
Gaming News
- Call of Duty: World at War got a new title update that gets rid of rocket jumping, unlimited ammo bipod trick, and adds DL maps support for the launch of the Makin Day map. Link
- Halo 3: ODST: Find out why Bungie decided to change Recon‘s name to this. Link
- SFIV: David Sirlin, member of the SFIIHDR design team slams SFIV for its difficulty. Link
- Prince of Persia will be sitting out his royal DLC bottom in the sidelines a while longer as Epilogue gets delayed a week, and gets moved to March 5th. Link
- Lost Planet
- rumor Link
- Is it or is it not? Still no word on the exclusivity of Lost Planet 2, but what is confirmed is that it will be getting 4-player co-op. Link
- FFXIII: Square Enix reassures that FFXIII is still a go for a 2009 launch, despite the seeming effect of DQIX‘s delay. But Snow is a no-show for the demo. Link
- Fallout 3: Xbox 360 gamers score another win as Bethesda announced exclusive DLC for Microsoft platforms. Link
- Left 4 Dead gets patched with some cool new stuff, like being able to climb on marked surfaces that are accessible only those for versus infected. It’s a mandatory update so you shouldn’t have any problem getting patched up. Link
- Resident Evil 5 news:
- This is the last frontier. Jun Takeuchi says RE5 is “the last of its kind”. What about the announced RE6? It’s a reboot. Link
- Xbox 360 bundle is officially announced by Microsoft. Head on over to GameStop or EB Games for the pre-orders! Link
- The one called dumbo: Wheelman dev Shaun Hiimmerick takes a swipe at both the PS3 and Xbox 360, calling the PS3 “a pain,” while the Xbox 360 is just a “dumb PC.” Yeowch. Link
- XBL: verb. X Ban Lesbians (Don’t Ban Lesbians)
That was quite a week for Microsoft, wasn’t it? Pretty deep, hot water they got themselves into with that XBL issue. Thank goodness they’re finally addressing it. Hopefully everything works out fine in the community. I guess the lesson that can be picked up from all that is to keep in mind that we’re all different from each other. We have different preferences, we make different choices, we have different levels of tolerance, some being more understanding and accepting than others.
With this in mind, I guess we also just have to be particularly careful about the sensitivities of other people, especially since – as said above – we will not all agree on one thing. So let’s just be careful about pricking each others’ territorial bubble. At the same time, let’s not make rash judgments on persons since there’s certainly more to them than just their Gamertags or profile details.
We just all want to have fun on the XBL after all.
Anyway.
Enough of the preachy mode. We’ve got more news in store for you this coming week on the Xbox 360, so just keep it here with us. Keep jumpin’ with QuickJump!