UNO most successful demo on Xbox Live Marketplace

Tuesday 13 Jun 2006 : 16:52 PM




Microsoft says that UNO by Carbonated games has become the most successful demo on XBLM ever in terms of conversions to full paying customers. Apparently between 40% and 45% of users that download the demo have been snapping up the full game beating the previous record of 39% set by Geometry Wars.

The game has been incredibly popular online and will be the first game to use the new XBOX 360 camera which will supposedly hit the shelves in September.

Tags: Puzzle Games , Uno , Xbox Live , Xbox Live Arcade , Xbox Live Marketplace

Formats: Xbox 360

UK video Games chart 4th June - 10th June

Tuesday 13 Jun 2006 : 13:49 PM



Last weeks Uk sales chart has new entries for Sensible Soccer 2006, which was only actually released on Friday 9th so would probably have charted higher on a whole week of sales, Brain Training on the DS and Moto GP 06 on the Xbox 360.

No surprise about the top 3 big hitters although how FIFA continues to chart higher than Pro Evo we'll never know.

1 - FIFA World Cup Germany 2006
2 - Hitman: Blood Money
3 - Tomb Raider: Legend
4 - Moto GP 06
5 - Pro Evolution Soccer 5
6 - Dr Kawashima's Brain Training
7 - Sensible Soccer 2006
8 - Half-Life 2: Episode One
9 - Animal Crossing: Wild World
10 - X-Men: The Official Game

Tags: Charts , Sales Figures

Formats: Multi Format

Micro Machines v4 gameplay footage and details

Tuesday 13 Jun 2006 : 11:55 AM



This great gameplay footage from the upcoming Micro Machines v4 was released this morning by Codemasters, along with a few new details.

We're only 17 days away from the June 30th launch date for the Playstation 2, PSP and PC versions, the NIntendo DS version will follow later.

The bad news is that we can't see any mention of online play for any of the versions, here's hoping they'll announce online play for the DS version, this game is crying out for it surely ?



Tags: Codemasters , Micro Machines , Micro Machines v4 , Racing

Formats: DS , PC , Playstation 2 , PSP

See Virtua Tennis 3 in action

Tuesday 13 Jun 2006 : 10:44 AM



This is the first video to be released of Virtua Tennis 3, the best tennis game ever (until Wii sports comes out !) it's coming out next year on xbox 360 and Playstation 3. More details to follow.

Tags: Sports , Virtua Tennis 3

Formats: Playstation 3 , Xbox 360

First video of new Golden Axe remake

Monday 12 Jun 2006 : 21:31 PM



This video was apparently taken at this years E3, presumably it's taken this long to surface because whoever shot it wasn't supposed to be.

We have absolutely no details about it, but the video suggests it's coming out on xbox 260 and PS3 in 2007. We'll let you know if we hear anything else.

Tags: E3 , Golden Axe , Retro , Sega

Formats: Playstation 3 , Xbox 360

Lumines Live and more coming to Xbox Live Arcade this summer

Monday 12 Jun 2006 : 17:49 PM



A leaked magazine article has launch dates and prices for loads of new 360 game content and Live arcade games according to a story on GamesRadar.

New games coming to Live arcade this summer include an online enabled version of the classic PSP puzzler Lumines, to sell for 1200 points (around a tenner) , which is great news. Other arcade games coming over the summer include updates of Pac-Man and Frogger and new games Cloning Clyde and RoboBlitz to be priced between 400 and 800 points.

There is also going to be more downloadable content for PGR3 (5 new cars and 2 new racing modes – cat and mouse and proximity based racing) along with new maps for Perfect Dark Zero and a new co-op mode for Kameo.

Looks like the Xbox live content drought may be coming to an end.

Tags: Lumines , Xbox Live

Formats: Xbox 360

Xbox 360 Dashboard update finally live

Monday 12 Jun 2006 : 14:05 PM



Microsoft finally released the long-awaited update to the Xbox 360 dashboard on Friday. According to Microsoft main man Major Nelson the update contains 125 improvements, some of them very noticeable such as the background downloading (at last!) and some of them less noticeable such as the ability to clear the memory cache.

We upgraded our 360 over the weekend and we're pleased to report that the process was incredibly quick (although it was over an 8meg broadband connection) and completely painless. So far we've noticed that your music selection keeps playing when you go back into a game (although initially disappears for the intro screens), the live arcade games list is more organised. and we've immediately set our box to “boot to dashboard” , a feature which should have been there from the start but is very welcome.

So full marks to Microsoft. We wouldn't be surprised if the next major update was around the time Sony launch the Playstation 3, to steal a bit of their thunder.

For a full list of all 125 changes click here

Tags: Xbox 360 Dashboard , Xbox Live

Formats: Xbox 360