Posts Tagged ‘xbox 360’

Blur, the new combat racing game from Project Gotham devs Bizarre Creations, wants you to race like a big boy. Activision wants you to win a copy. Here’s how.

Thanks to Activision we have TEN copies of Blur up for grabs. That’s FIVE on Xbox 360 and FIVE on PlayStation 3. We’ll be giving them away all this week, one of each per day until Friday.

Blur is like Mario Kart. But with real cars. As this ad so amusingly demonstrates.

We want to know what weapon or power-up you would use to win a race in Blur. Name and describe your weapon or power-up in the comments below to go into the draw. The wittiest, cleverest and most creative entries will win.

Today’s draw closes at midnight tonight and the winner will be announced at 11am tomorrow when a new draw will open. No multiple entries please. However, you may try again tomorrow with a new entry.

Oh, and please state which format you prefer!

kotaku.com.au

It’s not got the good looks of Ben Heck’s previous Xbox 360 laptops, but modder TheTwoJ’s efforts aren’t bad—and unlike Heck’s creations, you can bid for it on eBay with the starting price listed as $1,950.

It actually cost the modder over $2,000 and 650 hours to make the X-top as it’s been dubbed, and he’s been testing it for problems for the last three months, with no overheating issues to speak of.

Internally, the thing is made from an Xbox Elite Jasper system, with a 120GB hard drive and 17-inch Gateway monitor. He’s squeezed an Xbox Live camera in, and it comes complete with 12 months of Gold Live membership, a wireless 360 controller, Xbox Live headset and custom power cord supply.

It’s pretty much the ultimate Xbox laptop, and while it’s chunky you can’t say it’s no larger than your current Xbox-and-monitor set-up, right? [eBay via BenHeck Forums via Technabob]

gizmodo.com

Achievement hunters, beware! Electronic Arts is pulling the plug on nine more games with online gameplay components, titles like The Godfather and The Simpsons Game, which will go offline forever starting in March.

Some of those titles are going offline in certain regions only—Asia loses Army of Two on the PS3 in April—and for certain platforms—Mercenaries 2: World in Flames online support goes bye-bye in March. And three more of the games on this list are original Xbox titles, all of which are going offline in April.

For the bad news, read on, Need for Speed: Carbon PSP players.

March 16, 2010 Online Service Shutdown
Def Jam for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Godfather for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Lord of the Rings: Conquest for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for PC
Need for Speed: Carbon for PlayStation Portable
Need for Speed: ProStreet for PlayStation Portable
Simpsons for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360

April 15, 2010 Online Service Shutdown
Burnout 3: Takedown for PlayStation 2
Army of Two for PlayStation 3 (Asia only)
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for Xbox
Burnout 3: Takedown for Xbox
Madden NFL 09 for Xbox

kotaku.com