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Well, due to popular demand, here is some more Xbox 360 coverage to sate your appetite! Here is the best of Engadget, Joystiq, Kotaku, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Slashdot, and 1Up!

Engadget

Xbox 360 brings out the worst in people
Users report Xbox 360 “crashing like mad”
Unpacking the Xbox 360
Xbox 360 gutted!
Engadget Podcast 053 - 11.22.2005
Xbox 360 backward-compatibility list (1.0) released

Joystiq

Microsoft to sell 3 million 360’s by year’s end?
Joystiq Review: Kameo: Elements of Power
Xbox 360 launch day blues
Xbox 360 launch — Midtown style

The Setup
Unpacking the Xbox 360; hot unboxing action
Our sweet test setup
Our sweet speaker setup
Our sweet screen setup
Fuel for a 48-hour gaming fiesta
Blockbuster & Hollywood Video: 350 what?

The Hardware
Joystiq, PGR3 and faceplate. PGR3 and faceplate, Joystiq
Invasion of the Xbox 360 faceplates
Xbox 360 controller range: Can you hear me now?
Side-by-side of Xbox 360 remotes
Titlefight: 480p v. 720p for the championship!
Parasitic Play-and-Charge controllers get juice from Windows, but Windows gets nothing in return
Xbox 360 heat concerns are no concern
Xbox 360 fan noise ranked

The Services
Visualize this: Xbox 360’s visualizer taken for a spin
Game trailers available on Xbox Live
Live: best way to download game trailers
Best and worst trailers from Xbox Live Marketplace
Gaming trailers are insulting to gamers
360 plays videos, but controls are lacking
MP3s streamed to Xbox 360 via laptop
Xbox Live arcade titles added: free to try, $5 to $15 to buy
Our first Xbox Live friend: you like us, you really like us
Joystiq Guide: iPod on the Xbox 360

The Games
3 copies of Kameo = MS wants us to play it
2K on the 360: NBA 2K6, Amped 3, & NHL 2K6
Joyswag caption contest: win a copy of Kameo
Joystiq review: Geometry Wars demo
Joystiq review: Bankshot Billiards 2 demo
Joystiq review: Gauntlet demo
Joystiq review: Hexic HD
Are we perverse? There’s nothing retro about this experience!
Joystiq review: Joust demo, thy game is over
Joystiq review: Bejeweled 2 Deluxe demo
Kameo’s in the house, er… 360 tray
Super-frustrating boss fight in Kameo
Joystiq is better than GameSpot
And the best Xbox 360 launch title is…

Xbox 360 Fanboy

Nintendo and Sony line up in support of Xbox 360 launch
Quake IV struggles on the 360
PDZ upgrades planned through Xbox Live Marketplace
Some games not backwards compatible?
MetaReview: Perfect Dark Zero
It’s here!
Xbox’s corporate celebrities
Line up to meet Bill Gates (he’s dreamy)
Ebay catches the 360 fever
Xbox 360 as Long Tail video platform
HDTV Buying Guide: Xbox 360 Edition
Get podcasts on your 360
Microsoft’s hype machine is still rolling
What’s TSOP doc? Is the 360 hackable?
Square Enix responds: No FF and DQ on 360
All “aboard”: touring the Xbox 360’s motherboard
Make your own Xbox 360 VGA adaptor
Microsoft Game Studios GM Shane Kim Speaks!
Xbox 360 Loves Halo 2

Kotaku

360 Crashes and Crime
Didn’t Get a 360? Here’s Five Things to do
Xbox 360 Premium Set Going for $100,000?
Yet Another Guess on Cost to Make 360
Mossberg Misses the Mark on 360 Review
Xbox Live’s Free Videos
Microsoft Eats $126 of Every Xbox 360
Hours Old and PGR3 Crashing Like Mad
Xbox 360 Gets Executed
Best Buy Sold-Out Shenanigans?

Slashdot

MS Responds To 360 Glitches
How The 360 Works
Microsoft Loses $126 Per Unit on XBox 360
Xbox 360 Launches In U.S.

1Up

Xbox 360 Officially Launches in North America
Lining Up for Xbox 360
Microsoft Loses Money With Each Console - Again
Perfect Dark Zero Tops Most Anticipated Xbox 360 Game List
Challenge J Allard on Xbox 360

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To honor the 10th anniversary of the Command & Conquer series, a series that pioneered in the genre of Real Time Strategy video-games, EA is releasing Command & Conquer: The First Decade. The First Decade is an all-encompassing mega-pack containing every title from the series, including:

the original Command & Conquer and the glorious Red Alert, to the poorly thought-out Sole Survivor and black sheep of the series, Generals. The box set will also feature a bonus DVD with a video interview of Command & Conquer creator (and Westwood founder) Louis Castle.

Although there is no official release date set for The First Decade series, the expected retail price is a moderate $40.

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Anonymous Game Developers Interactive (AGD Interactive) have successfully given a make-over to the first two installments of the legendary King’s Quest series. In their remakes, they have enhanced the graphics from 16 colors to 256 colors and chose a resolution of 320×200, which provides a feeling accurate to the classic. Here’s a great image that accentuates the graphical differences between the original (on the left) and the remake (on the right) of KQII:

In addition to graphical changes, the entire plot for both King’s Quest 1 & 2 have been altered, and a music and speech pack have been created to enhance the experience. While still point-and-click adventures, allow me to make a short caveat: if you’re looking for creations true to their classics, look elsewhere; these remakes are refined products designed by modern standards.

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Joystiq reports what they know about the Nintendo Revolution. If what they say is credible, which I believe it is, then the Revolution might be the best new console. Here are the details:

Release is sometime in 2006.
Prototype shown is larger than final unit.
Nintendo is still determining final colors for the console.
All-Access Gaming, which refers to backwards compatibility to 20 years of Nintendo games, NES, SNES, N64. We don’t know particulars of how it’ll be accessed or what, if any, the cost structure might be.
Downloadable to 512MB of flash memory.
SD memory card slot.
Wireless controllers.
Two USB 2.0 ports.
Built-in WiFi.
WiFi used to interface with the DS.
DS likely to enhance future games.
Self-loading optical drive that will play 12cm Revolution discs and smaller GameCube discs
Self-contained attachment for playing media content, including DVDs.
No controller was shown. So even though the box looks a lot like the one leaked over the weekend, the accompanying controllers were not presented. So was it a leak, or a really good guess?

Engaget also covered the E3 Nintendo Revolution event.

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After Vivendi Universal sent them a cease and desist letter, a fan-based group of developers were forced to stop all efforts of creating the ninth sequel to the King’s Quest series.

The legality of unofficial sequels is sometimes uncertain. It often depends on the extent to which intellectual property from the original game is included in the sequel. For example, if the sequel uses trade-marks from the original game such as the name of the game (or sometimes even the names of characters or places in the game), the sequel might violate trade-mark rights in the original game. Likewise, if the sequel uses any code, characters, or other materials from the original game, the sequel might violate copyright in the original game.

The developer’s site is www.kqix.com.

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