Official X06 Thread

The last of the 3 big events that have been taking place in this short 3-week timespan. For those that don't know what X06 is, here is a Wikipedia article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(Xbox_show)
Basically, it is an event for Microsoft to make announcements on anything Xbox-related or related to games for Windows. The games are also playable to those at the event. So like a mini-TGS or mini-E3, but just for Microsoft (no Sony/Nintendo). Guessing games like Forza 2, Gears of War, Viva Piñata, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Alan Wake, and a few others will be the main focus (some of those possible being surprise announcements). We'll probably get the final, confirmed info regarding the 360 HD-DVD drive (when it will ship in the US and for how much). Maybe a surprise price cut or a new (black) SKU annoucenment too?

AFAIK, this event will start later on today, in about 2 and a half hours (noon here). Xbox.com will have a live stream of the event, and there will be other sites with live text feeds from the event also (Eurogamer, 1UP, etc.).

As usual, I'm going to link to a NeoGAF thread that will be updated and probably better organized than anything I could do:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121409

 

Kind of busy with class right now, but here's some updates:
● Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & MS establish Wingnut interactive, Studio dedicated to creation of world class interactive entertainement (sounds like Hollywood version of Mistwalker).
● PJ & Fran will work on two 360 exclusive franchises, first is the 'chapter in the Halo(r) universe' (read:Spinoff) the second is something original.
● Halo Wars from Ensemble 360 exclusive. Halo Wars places the player in command of human UNSC armies as they deploy for mankind's first deadly encounter with the enemy Covenant forces
● GTA4 will have two downloadable 'episodes' exclusive to 360, released months after launch
● Splinter Cell 5 (the one after Double Agent) is 360 exclusive
● Bioshock is 360 & PC exclusive
● PGR4 announced
● new Banjo Kazooie announced
● Cryptic Studios (City Of Heroes) will develop the Marvel MMORPG, for 360 & PC only
● Doom & Sensible World of Soccer announced for XBLA (Doom out today)
● HD-DVD $199, €199, £129, free King Kong for limited time & Media Center Remote Mid November for US & Europe

I think the conference is going on right now, but I can't really keep up with it.

 

This have been hinted at for a while, but Guitar Hero 2 is indeed coming to the Xbox 360:
http://darkzero.co.uk/v4/games/news/10943/360-guitar-hero-ii-confimred-for-xbox360

There are a couple of updates (mostly media updates) in the NeoGAF thread. Again, I haven't had much of a chance to check out everything MS did, but it does sounds like they put on quite a show.

 

Apparently SCi (who owns Eidos and some other developers) will not release any games on the PS3 until 2008, so a lot of their next-gen games coming out in 2007 will be 360 exclusive (at least for 2007 I guess):
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/ne...R_RTRJONC_0_India-269536-1.xml&archived=False

This would include Kane and Lynch as well as the Hitman games AFAIK. The next Tomb Raider is supposed to be out in 2008, so I guess that will hit both consoles at the same time. I'm not sure what other games they are working on that would be affected by this.