The latest Xbox News from xboxusersgroup.com http://www.thexug.com Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:21:35 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4319/228/ After sending long-time member Walshy out in the dark, rumours ran rampant throughout the Halo 3 community about who Final Boss would pick up as a replacement.The Real Madrid of Halo couldn't be arsed to wait for better times or that the players got good enough in the game, they... News - MLG Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:51:52 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4318/228/ Yesterday MLG's Commissioner, John Nelson, sent shockwaves through the Halo 3-community as he announced that Final Boss had dropped Walshy from their roster. Apart from the OGRE-twins, Dave 'Walshy' Walsh is one of the best (and most succesful) Halo-players to ever touch the XboX-joypad. Being one of the founding members... News - MLG Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:48:59 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4317/228/ Now this is a story all about how, MLGPro turned the beat up and made me bow. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there and I'll hook you up with a rofltime now and here!I got to admit it, I'm a sucker for the Fresh Prince,... News - MLG Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:06:55 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4316/139/ Microsoft will be giving back some of the green ones in a new we love people who creates content for us -stunt. XNA Code Creators Club will be offering paying members the possibility to be paid for their games. The system is quite simple. Game-developers in XNA will be... News - Xbox News Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:02:25 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4315/139/ Planned to be released in early October, Fable 2 is the latest title from Peter Molyneux. Loved for his fantastic games in the past, and hated for his hyped titles that couldn't live up to people's expectations in recent times, Molyneux promises that Fable 2 is going to be his... News - Xbox News Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:49:45 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4314/230/ Berlin Allianz faded away as they lost four out of five possible submatches against San Francisco OPTX, while Birmingham Salvo and Carolina Core put on a magnificent show.In the first Semi-final of the night, Berlin Allianz proved to be no match for OPTX, as the Americans won the match with... News - CGS Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:17:05 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4313/139/ Microsoft just put out a major update to their release-dates, and it seems like October and November is going to be saving-months for me; or heavy XboX-action-months atleast. Fallout 3 is coming out on October 7th, Fable 2 is coming out two weeks later on the 21st and... News - Xbox News Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:22:28 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4312/139/ The nice folks over at Kotaku.com were ever-present at the E3, gathering as much information as they possibly could. Now, they didn't only drink and party (http://kotaku.com/5025216/kotakus-e3-party-great-success), they were actually working too.That has resulted in three video-interviews with some of the top dogs at Microsoft. Shane Kim talks about the... News - Xbox News Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:37:22 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4311/139/ If you haven't checked out Fable 2 yet, there is now more reasons to do it. The first game was not only a good RPG, it was a fantastic RPG, and showed the huge potential that the consoles have in that genre. The successor takes place 500 years after the... News - Xbox News Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:38:17 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4310/228/ For those Halo-players who have lived under a rock the last month, Triggers Down are the new (and winning) kids on the block. As the team won at MLG Orlando, they became the 4th team ever to take down a Halo championship in MLG. The story of MLG Orlando is... News - MLG Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:57:30 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4309/230/ Tonight, there is going to be two winners and two losers in The Championship Gaming Series. The Semi-finals are going to be played, and it is USA vs. Europe; Berlin Allianz vs. San Francisco OPTX and Birmingham Salvo vs. Carolina Core.One thing is 100% sure going into the matches tonight;... News - CGS Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:57:38 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4308/139/ Everybody who has a XboX 360 and loved the original Halo-games, were disappointed that Bungie had to cancel their new game . While it has already been rumoured to in fact be a fourth game in hte Halo-franchise, so now they guessing-games have begun. Over at RockPaperShotgun, there is... News - Xbox News Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:33:36 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4307/139/ If Kotaku.com is to believe, then Microsoft can start congratulating themselves, as the XboX 360 has finally had a profitable year. According to the story (http://kotaku.com/5026559/xbox-division-finally-reports-profitable-year) , MS has made $426,000,000 in the financial year 07-08. That is an awfull lot of XboX-dollars and a better result than last years... News - Xbox News Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:50:12 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4306/139/ Before consulting the porno-industry (http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/07/30/porn_dvd/) , Microsoft decided to include the HD-DVD as the highdefinition-drive in XboX 360. Let's just say that it was a bad idea. As HD-DVD lost the format-war to Sony's Blueray, the XboX-ownwers were pretty much left alone in the desert. And that hasn't changed at... News - Xbox News Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:11:55 +0100 http://www.thexug.com/content/view/4305/ Halo 3 is a growing franchise, both in and out of the States, and now the European eSport-giant Turtle Entertaintment acknowledges the growing community, as they pick up console-gaming and Halo 3 for their annual eSport-awards.For a few years already, eSports has not been confined to the PC any... News - Newsflash Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:35:22 +0100