Mid-Morning Consoling

Any more word on XBOX backward compatibility? Other than the fact that I haven't seen a 360 Premium this has been stopping me from the full court press to find one.

Wow, Chris is there anyway you could start posting the console news in the middle of the day on a regular basis? there's a ton more activity than usual...

So would you guys say X360 has a "system seller", i.e. on the order of Halo yet? Or is there one on the horizon that you expect will be that magical title?

Every single one of my friends have finnally been sold on the 360, i'm guessing about 15 of them are going to buy one within the next month or so. MS better not be lying about the shortages being fixes shortly!

Awesome, more 360s and a more open source style Live platform. MS is timing everything just right.

Wheres Gears of War?

Boo opening platform. Honestly, EA's game servers suck huge balls.

Dead Rising is apparantly coming out in June. I can't wait for the game as it just looks like a ton of fun. So many moves with so many different weapons and the wrestling moves that make zombies heads explode make me wet.

can we please get some new addon stuff for PGR3!!! Test Drive Unlimited is a long ways away yet :(

I asked about 360 availabliity this morning at EBgames when I was picking up Oblivion, the lackey claimed April should be about when you'll be able to just stroll into a store and pick up the console (hopefully bundle-free).

imo, oblivion is really the only "gotta have" game for the 360. i want KOTOR3...asap!@

We've had "openness" on Live for some time already. The Sega/ESPN/2K Sports game servers (for better) as well as EA's servers (for worse) have been playing with Live for over a year. Are specifics available on what this new Xbox Live platform openness and SDK brings to the table that wasn't already there for developers?

That list and Gamespots Oblivion preview saved me $500. Yay!

How does someone get a copy of an XBox dev kit anyway?

wow . . . the remo works like all day and stuff

Less than 24 hours until the Australian 360 launch.

I see a lot of people complaining about a lack of games. Here's a bunch of games I think were great.

-Kameo: great platformer

-Condemned: scary, sick twisted shit

-Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: possibly the best shooter I've played on a console, especially multiplayer wise

-Fight Night Round 3: best boxing game I've played, tons of fun multiplayer

-PGR3: great racer somewhere between sim and arcade

-Sports titles.. just about every sport is covered. not my cup of tea

-Oblivion: do I need to explain this one?

-Burnout Revenge: Arcadey crashing exploding racer (ive only played the demo)

-The Outfit: 3PS/RTS/just plain fun from the demo I played

-DOA4: Best online fighting game. Actually, I think its the only online fighting game other then others from the franchise.

-Tons of arcade games - SF2 and MK3 coming, as well as Uno for christ's sake. Geometry Wars!

There's lots more reasons really, but for the amount of time the system has been out I don't think I've had as much stuff to play with and mess with on any other console before the 360.

Lastly, nothing has come close in terms of multiplayer and being able to play with friends. I'm not trying to shill, in fact I will be getting a REVO and a PS3, but right now the 360 is just so much fun, and I haven't touched my PC in a while except for the occasional Counter-Strike.

The other day a few Far Cry screenshots were released, but they looked quite crappy. Anyone know if those were alpha stage shots or anything?