GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that Microsoft says Xbox games will need to be recompiled to work with Xbox 360. This would seem to indicate-- although it is not yet clear-- that even your old games will have to be repurchased in order to run-- unless the console can recompile it by itself, which seems extremely unlikely. Not good news for those banking on this feature.
Voodoo Extreme is reporting from the Microsoft press conference at E3 that the Xbox 360 console will be able to play the some Xbox titles via emulation. On his blog, Major Nelson also repeats the claim issued by Robbie Bach at E3: that the Xbox 360 will play "the most popular" Xbox titles.
Weapon respawn times for Warlock, Turf, Containment and Sanctuary have been added by Typher to HBO's weapon respawn page. Louis Wu posted the news at HBO.
Major Nelson points out in his blog this Wired interview with J Allard.
The article clearly places Bungie's Halo and Halo 2 in the proper pivotal place in the Xbox's history:
Frankie's What's What Update for May 13, 2005 mentions that the next map release date is now July 5 instead of June 28.
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Bungie's put up their side of their loss to the Xbox Live team in the Humpday Challenge; they allege that XBL used a ringer. And according to SketchFactor, Major Nelson Suxorz.
UPDATE: Major Nelson is denying the charge of ringer leveled by Bungie against one member of the XBL team that played in the Humpday.
Major Nelson has put up his summary of the latest Humpday Challenge that pitted Xbox Live against Bungie.
XerxdeeJ has announced in the HBO forum that he's started a Halo blog called Tied The Leader.
Just a short while ago, Apple released version 10.4 of OS X, codenamed Tiger. One of the new features it introduced was Dashboard, a controversially Konfabulator-like feature.
Lacsap has created a Dashboard widget that displays your Halo 2 ranking. He announced it in an HBO forum post; you can download it from Dashboardwidgets.com.
Mike Miller has brought his fantastic Halo 2 Legendary Walkthrough to a close with a video-laden page on The Great Journey. If you've played the game all the way through but haven't read this series yet, then do yourself a favor and check it out. If you're still stuck somewhere trying to beat Legendary, swallow your pride and look for some tips.
In an article at the Hollywood Reporter that focuses on Hitman, the best-selling Halo 2 soundtrack is used as a benchmark for the industry, selling 120,000 copies in its first volume, about 12 times the sales of the average game soundtrack. Louis Wu at HBO provided the heads-up.