Xbox 360 Gaming Industry - Big Budget Titles
... Game studios have to hire sound effects professionals in order to constitute realistic sound management. They have to hire testers that sit and play the games for hours looking for bugs or bad coding. Some studios go to such length as to hiring real actors to speak character's voice parts just like in an animated movie. Not only that but on top of the game being made the publisher also hires publicist, managers, and advertisement firms in order for their "product" to get enough sales to constitute their hard work. But specifically there are a few games that stand out as the biggest budget games on the xbox 360.
Halo is becoming a name almost as recognizable as the name Mario. The game holds a legacy for the best multi-player game since Goldeneye. The newest installment of the franchise delivers on every aspect that Halo fans wanted from the new game. It als...more
Will the xbox 360 Have an Achilles Heel?
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The xbox 360 controller appears to still hae the same button configuration at the previous incarnations. That setup, tho adequate for many games, doesn't work well with one of the best selling game franchises of all time, the madden football series. Altho the xbox controller's trigger works extremely well for 1st person shooter games, it lacks 2 additional buttons in the trigger areas, whi...more
How To Repair The xbox 360 Yourself
...guides that can be downloaded in an instant and the most useful ones come with videos to guide you step by step through the entire process. Many users of these guides report being able to fix their consoles in under an hour even when they are faced with the dreaded 'red ring of death' were one or more of the lights on the front of the unit flash red and games will not load. There are many issues that can be easily repaired by the console owner with the right repair guide and you need not wait weeks to get back to enjoying what you bought the console for in the first place - gaming and lots of it!<...more
Hardware Inside Xbox3 Reviewed and Explained
... This raises the 3D effects and graphics to astounding levels of clarity and definition. The X box 360 is said to have a 16 giga samples p/s fill rate along with 4X antialiasing and 48 billion shader operations per second and a9 billion dot product operations per second. The specifications are breathtaking and according to the CNET editors review, it is hard to compare or comment on a machine with futuristic capabilities and one that is yet to have a comparison. What the xbox 360 will have is realistic graphics.
The memory system is GenX and has a 512 MB of 700 megahertz GDDR3 RAM on a 128-bit bus. The system has a unified memory architecture which is shared by the CPU and GPU.
The bandwidth is high ...more
