By now you should know that the Nintendo Revolution is not in fact called the Revolution (a name I liked btw).  It will be called Wii (as in We), yeah it's kinda stupid I know.  This is pretty common for consoles to have different names while in development, the 360 was once known as Xenon, or project Xenon if you want to sound cool.

Well here's the real shocker.  My "sources" tell me that the PS3 is in fact not going to be called the PS3.  Playstion will be taking a page from the book of Nintendo and their next gen console will be name the PS POO.

HAHAHA!!  I know my entries are normally serious, but it's Friday, and I'm stuck at work.  So for those of you stuck at work as well, enjoy a laugh courtesy of me.,

So the Halo 3 rumors have been going on forever, first Big Billy said something, then Moore did, both of those statements were quickly swept under the rug and denied as being true.  Then there was the Clubskill blunder the other day which spread some baseless story about Peter Moore confirming Halo 3 at E3.  Now it's IGN's turn to throw more junk into the rumor mill.  Here's my favorite part of their article on the H3 rumor:

"IGN learned today from independent sources who recently spoke with Microsoft executives."

Yeah I heard from from some guy who knows some guy, so that's worth writing a story, what the hell is that?  That's actually a perfect transition to my next talking point, IGN SUCKS.  They suck hard, long, and well.  I try to be nice about all sites, like teamxbox, they just rub me the wrong way for some reason.  Although you'll never hear me trash them, because let's face it even though I don't like the site I still visit cuz it provides so much for the Xbox fans that I can't deny what they do is good.  IGN on the other hand, just plain sucks, I know I'm being so descriptive and painting a beautiful picture in your mind with vaste vocabulary on this entry. 

If you're looking for good gaming sites to visit check my list, or just ask me cuz I regularly visit a lot more than is on that list.

IGN's H3 Rumor

Some of you by now have heard of seen the website for Devil360. If you haven't it's a site that features a picture of an all black Xbox 360 and the date 6/6/06 (I love how that works for US and Europeans alike). No one really knows what it is, at least no one I've talked to. Is it an all black limited edition from MS? Or is it just a site that will be offering case mods? Could it be something completely different? While the date say 6/6/06, the launch date for the site comes 2 days earlier on the 4th, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

If you're a news junkie like me then by now you've read the "Peter Moore said Halo 3 will be at E3 rumor"  This story originated with ClubSkill, then went to Xboxaddict, and from there was picked up by the blog Xboxic.  Well being the well informed gamer that I am I had to go to all these sites and tell them they were wrong, it actually was a quote from Chris Morris of CNN.  I don't really fault Xboxaddict or Xboxic since they were just reporting what someone else said, but Clubskill had no kind of link or source for this info, just a little reckless if you ask me.  Xboxic was even nice enough to give me mention for correcting them.  That actually made me realize that I don't even have a link for them in my list, and I do visit that blog a couple times a day.  Basically if you like Joqstiq and Kotaku, and are mainly an Xbox gamer, then you need to read Xboxic.

Here's  link to the Xboxic article

Look to my links for the Xboxic homepage.

I know a lot of the MSN bloggers are like me and either have now or in the past had a couple blogs.  I had 3-4 at one point but I try to focus on this one for now.  Well now not am I blogging, but my 360 is blogging about my gameplay.  It's actually pretty funny, you all should check it out.

My 360's blog

Well not exactly, you can't go to the show, neither can I though so that might make you feel better.  Xbox.com has launched an E3 section on their site with some pretty interesting info.  There's an interview with Peter Moore, yeah he's one of those MS VP's with a sweet home theatre.  This is a great interview and makes this time of year a little les depressing, yeah I get depressed cuz I'll never go to E3. 

This year coverage of E3 will be available on marketplace.  That's pretty cool, no more looking through 15 blogs to find the newest info, of course if you want info on PS3 and the Revolution I doubt marketplace will be the place to find it.  In a very stunning move though not only will there be video on marketplace during E3 but there will also be DEMOS.  That's right, some of the very same demos that all those lucky SOB's at E3 will get to play we will get to eperience.  Now I'm just wondering if there's an expiration date on these demos or will we be able to keep them.  I'm not sure, but I don't really care.  For someone who has made it a life goal to make it to E3 before he dies I really feel like MS threw me a bone on this one, thanks.

Link to article with Peter Moore

Lately it seems like Datel has been rolling out the accessories, which they actually have.  Part of me feels like they're trying to make up for ruining halo 2.  Okay I'll be honest,  it wasn't actually them but AR made it way too easy for any 13 year old who mowed his neighbor's lawn to mod me into an a tantrum that the Incredible Hulk would envy. 

Now the last 2 Datel products I blogged about were pretty big news, the XSATA was cool, and the headset adapter was a no-brainer and basically a gift to all 360 gamers.  The newest thing I'm seeing from them isn't exactly that big of a deal.  They've come out with a play and charge kit.  I can sense the excitement.  So why would something so seemingly insignificant make it onto a prestigious blog such as mine?  Well it's $5 cheaper than the first party play and charge kit. 

Wow, this entry is very uncommon for me, just in terms of the writing style.  I guess I was feeling creative.

So every site it seems is reporting on this Spanish forum post from someone who supposedly works at Microsoft.  Some of this stuff I just don't see happening, like $100 hd dvd and a $100 price drop for the 360.  Of course if the 360 goes to $300 in price and the PS3 comes in at $500-$600 then Sony really is dead.  Of this list I'd say with 95% certainty that Kameo 2 is being made and the Sega virtual console rumor is true, cuz I've gotten that info from other people.

Forum Post (in spanish)

Here's the translation, or at least what is said to be the translation, I don't know spanish.

-Xbox 360 Premium Pack price is going to drop $100 in October.
-Xbox 360 Core Pack price is going to drop $80 in October
-Gears of War is going to be released the last week of October with an huge marketing campaign at global scale.
-HD-DVD for the next month of September. Add-on that you can connect to the USB 2.0 port. It is going to be priced for $100
-New HardDisk Drive with 100GB of storage, price and date not specified.
-Webcam "My Eye on you", for the month of September with a price of $50 without game and $75 with a game.
-Xbox Backward compatibility list is going to be updated in June with 50 new titles
-The capacity of the Xbox Live Servers is going to be 5 times more than the actual servers
-Halo 3 is going to be in the market the next month of March, in E3 we are going to see the first videos.
-Possibility of an "urban game" that could be GTA. Microsoft is working on it and this isn´t a joke.
-A possible price drop in Xbox Live Gold or it is going to be free because they are going to get money with promotional advices.
-From the next month of October we are going to change some records in some games for "MSpoints".
-Paramount Pictures and Microsoft has anounced an agreement where Paramount is going to provide HD content to Xbox Live.
-NBC has signed with Microsoft for the possibility of see the online tournaments like an sports live retransmisión.
-Aliance between Epic and Microsoft for exclusive content in Xbox Live.
-Creation of a Dashboard for kids.
-A new service in june: Download and play.
-Rare is working in Kameo 2 since before the release of Kameo. Is going to come before than expected.
-MS is working for an upgraded friend list (until 200 contacts)
-Virtual Console with Sega games before the next month of October
-An spectacular upgrade in the number of Xbox Live Arcade games in the next months.
-New look for Dashboard.

I'll admit, the whole interchangeable faceplate thing for the 360 did get me pretty excited, I'm one of those people with a crazy looking original xbox.  I did skins, changes the jewel, added about 25 led's, so the idea of customizing it was always something I was into.  I've been interest in putting some led's in my 360 controller, you know for the guide button and the other buttons, but just haven't been all too motivated.  Well that's all changed.

The first wave of case mods for the 360, well the controller really, will be hitting sites soon.  A company named Extreme Enterprise will be manufacturing new cases for the 360 controller and it's gonna be sweet. 

Read more at Xbox-Scene

I think the title pretty much says it all.  Apparently Datel's realeasing a headset adapter so you can use any headset with the 360.  I'm not gonna say much, cuz there's a much better place to read about and see this.

The FNG Spot

I feel like a lot of my blogs lately have been negative about the 360 or MS in general, which is so out of character for me, but here we go again. 

Now I'll start off saying I know games are buggy, there are issues and such, but with the small amount of games on the 360 you'd think they would be able to find these problems before releasing games.  We do hear the rumors about games being pushed back due to problems, and that's great, but it just seems like lots of games are making it to the stores with issues.  Oblivion and MLB 2k6 are the latest to have problems.  So while people are waiting for an MLB patch others are holding the A button while Oblivion boots.  I just don't get why a game is released and the next day I see on multiple forums people reporting the same problems.  How come some 15 year old in Iowa can find a problem after 5 hours of playing a game but these problems aren't picked up in testing?  That's a serious question too, I know some people who work for MS do check out my blog from time to time, so what's the deal?

So much for no good news before E3, but you should still check out Haloaded's space.

Datel has unveiled a new 360 accessory, and this one is actually very useful. It's called the XSATA and for those of you who think the hard drive on the 360 doesn't give you enough space then this is what you need to get, at least until MS unveils the new HDD. It's a device that attaches directly to your 360 hdd and allows you to share files between your pc and 360. Now you can just transfer saves to you pc to free up some much needed room. If you're an arcade junkie or playing FF XI then you need this.  My only question is what idiot chose the color?

Read more from Codejunkies

Source: Joystiq.com

 FINALLY!!! We get some info on Street Fighter 2, the info and playable game were at MS' event in Canada (sucks for those of you at the new york press event a few weeks ago). They're saying that game will hit the marketplace by the end of April costing 800-1200 MP points (that's $10-$15 for those you reaching for your calculators). This is the game I've been looking forwards to the most for Xbox Live Arcade, and I think anyone over 18 or so would agree. I wasted so many hours in the arcade jamming away at buttons and destroying joysticks playing this, not to mention the counless hours spent in basements.

So what's the other classic fighters that should come to the Arcade? My vote is Mortal Kombat 2 and Virtua Figher, if you've got a better idea then let me know.

UPDATE: According to Spong.com they've spoken with a rep from Eidos who says the game is still slated for release on the 11th.  It's always fun to have weird rumors like this circulating the community.  Spong

That's what Xboxic is reporting. It's an odd story really. Apparently there is a scene in chapter 2 with girls dancing in the background. Now when they were making the same they left the background dancers naked and figured they'd add clothes later, but they didn't. Even more interesting if that they gave the dancers nipples. I don't see what purpose this serves, other than some giggles around the office, but obviously a bonehead move. I haven't seen this story reported elsewhere yet, but I'm still looking for confirmation.


Read the full article at Xboxic

Yes it' true, well only if you live in Japan.  They plan to put up some anime for download on the marketplace.  This is a perfect opportunity for me to tell everyone something that for some reason they don't get.

Now I know that lots of gamers also like anime, but I hate to tell you, anime sucks!  First of all the animation itself looks crappy to me.  All the people look the same with their freaky hair and Michael Jackson noses.  Then you get into the animation of their mouths.  Do me a favor, next time you're watching anime mute the tv and play a Slick Rick cd, it'll look like they're rappin along with the music.  The stories are weird, I just don't get it.  Maybe it's just me, but anime is stupid.

Apparently a spec sheet for the 360 has shown up and is all over the net by now. I found the story at Kotaku

Camera Specs:
USB 2.0 bus-powered device
Smooth, near DV quality video up to VGA 640x480 at 30 FPS
High-def images; still photos up to SVGA 1280x960 (1.3 Mp)
Manually adjustable variable focus 2 feet to infinity
Field of View 43 degrees
On board image processor
Digital zoom, cropping
Auto exposure, white balance , gamma correction, sharpness
Long cable to reach around large TVs
Includes a headset for great audio.\

Take a look at the actual sheet thanks to 360 Galaxy

We'll see how this whole camera dealy works out, but I can see some crazy things coming from it. I hope there's interaction with games through it, otherwise it's solely a perverts dream (wait aren't I a pervert?) and adds nothing to the gaming experience. The only use I can see is using it to see gamers of the oppposite sex, I'm not really interested in looking at the 14 year old boy who's cussing me out.