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So it looks like Microsoft will be allowing you to buy non-permanent items on the Live Marketplace in the form of “consumables.” So for those of you wishing to shortcut the in-game process of earning gold or looting monsters to get your healing items, go you. I mean, I can’t really blame anyone for taking advantage of such schmucks.
[url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/15/microsoft-to-take-a-bite-out-of-consumables/]Microsoft to take a bite out of “consumables”[/url] (Joystiq)
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EA is dumping a classic games collection on PSP and I love it! At least this way my PSP gets some games I want to play.
Budokan? Syndicate? Wing Commander? Yes please.
[url=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152861]EA Planning Extensive PSP Compilation[/url] (1up)
Nobody really knows what the [url=http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/townhall/cavernsoftime.html]Caverns of Time[/url] will be like, but now you can see some screenshots and a nice blob of text that doesn’t tell you anything. Thanks Blizzard!
The rumor seems to be that it will allow you to replay some historical battles from the Warcraft background fiction.
It looks like the $60 price point isn’t as nice as everyone thought. Apparently a few titles in the near future are coming in at $40 or $50.
[url=http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/8/13/4964]360 games are showing up more often under $60[/url] (ArsTechnica)
Microsoft will be allowing any user to develop Xbox 360 games via a $99 subscription fee and their XNA game development platform. A lite version of the platform, called XNA game studio express, will be available to all users of Windows XP for free, with the $99 subscription price going towards the ability to test and share the games on 360.
As of this time there is no plan to make user made games available over Live, but that may change.
[url=http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10458]BREAKING: Microsoft To Enable User-Created Xbox 360 Games[/url] (Gamasutra)
