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| Site down on Monday TheXUG.com will undergo some serious upgrading on Monday, switching to new servers as well as implementing a new forum. Thus the site will be down from Sunday 23:59 CET to Monday 23:59 CET.It's about time to get more friends, more features and more connectivity. As many in here already knows,... |
| Final Boss: 'We pick Neighbour!' 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... |
| Final Boss drops Walshy 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... |
| There is a new Prince in town; he's Fresh! 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,... |
| Earn hard bucks with XNA 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... |
| Fable 2 hands on by Kotaku 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... |
| No All American CGS-Final this season 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... |
| MS update releasedates 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... |
| Video-bonanza: GoW 2&3, XboX 360 and Halo Wars! 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... |
| Virtual sex and adultery in Fable 2 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... |
| Triggers Down: Thank you Mackeo 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... |
| CGS Semi-finals to be played out tonight 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;... |
| How does a Halo MMO sound to you? 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... |
| XboX 360 has a profitable year 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... |
| MS say no to Blueray; services are the future 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... |