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XBox 360 User Created Content?

31 Jan, 2007 No Comment

During a recent discussion over at the Avatar, Mark Rein (Epic Games Vice-President) hinted that we could be seeing user created content on the XBox 360.

But let’s not forget we always said UT3 was coming to PC. Part of what makes the Unreal Tournament games great is the amazing variety and quality of user-created content. Sony gave us every indication from the start that their network would be an open system and that they would welcome mods and user-created content whereas I’m sure you know Xbox Live is a closed system. We have been working with Microsoft for a while to try to get the ability to support user-created content on the 360. We now have a pretty good indication that we’ll be able to do most of what we want to do in that area so we’ve decided to bring the game to that platform.

Sounds like good news to me. My guess is once Live Anywhere gets going, there will be a nice pathway from PC Level Editors/Mods to the XBox 360. I’m also going to venture out on a limb and say Mods will only be available for Gold members. The rumors are abound that with the spring update we’ll be seeing a dedicated XNA section in which members of the Creator’s Club can upload their project. Who knows, you might even see a game from this little penguin.

Zune details Leaked

18 Aug, 2006 1 Comment

Gizmodo got some inside details on Zune today. Zune is Microsoft’s answer to the iPod. Unfortuantely if this is their answer? They were asking the wrong question.

First off, that scroll wheel you see? That’s not a wheel. It’s just four buttons arranged in a wheel formation. That kinda sucks if you’re used to the scroll wheel, but it seems their engineers weren’t too fond of it, or Microsoft didn’t want to be accused of copying the iPod’s wheel. Either way, it’s just four buttons.But like the wheel, the scrolling speeds up the longer you hold down the button.