New Cars for Forza 2 (some FREE)

Forza Motorsport 2: In game content

Content: Nissan Tournament Pack
Price: Free
Availability: All Xbox Live regions
Dash Text: Free download of the North American 2007 Nissan Altima, 2007 Nissan Sentra, and 2007 Nissan 350Z.

Content: #8 Peugeot 908
Price: 50 Microsoft Points
Availability: All Xbox Live regions
Dash Text: Experience Peugeot's 2007 return to Le Mans in the #8 turbo diesel 908. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.

More details on this downloadable content over at Forazamotorsport.net

XBL Arcade: SpyGlass Board games and Marathon Duranal

Content: Spyglass Board Games

Price: 400 Microsoft Points

Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions

Dash Details: [ESRB: E (EVERYONE)] Single Player, Xbox LIVE Multiplayer 1-2, HD (High Definition). Check out the full version of Spyglass, a fun new take on classic board games, like Chess, Checkers, Mancala, and Reversi. Play with a friend on Xbox LIVE, or play against the computer. Use the Xbox Live Vision camera to personalize the game board, playing pieces, and video effects. Each game has custom pieces to choose from, such as a rook made of stone or a furry checkers piece. And you can customize the look with textures like marble, silver, and gel. Make each game your very own!

Content: Marathon: Durandal
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions
Dash Details: [ESRB: M (MATURE 17+) BLOOD AND GORE, VIOLENCE]Single Player, Xbox LIVE Multiplayer 2-8, Local Multiplayer 2-4, HD (High Definition). Purchase now to unlock the full game, with all the classic Marathon gameplay and shiny new enhanced high-definition graphics! Feeling tough? Take on the universe alone in Single-Player mode. Feeling friendly? Team up with others to fight the Pfhor in Cooperative mode. Spoiling for a fight? Challenge the world to Deathmatch, King of the Hill, Tag, or the ever-popular Kill the Man with the Ball!
Size: 138.25 MB

It's Official: Halo 3 has four player, online co-op

This just in from http://joystiq.com/:

Speaking at a Microsoft press conference in Amsterdam earlier today, Bungie has confirmed, once and for all, that Halo 3 will feature two to four player online co-operative play over Xbox Live. This news comes after months of rumors and slip-ups, but is extremely appreciated nonetheless.Details are extremely sparse at the moment (chugging a Mountain Dew while snowboarding with a live bear extreme) but we can tell you this: we have Bungie's word. Bungie will be issuing an update themselves on this matter over at their website later today, so be patient and we'll have further information for you as soon as it rolls in.

Wing Commander Contest tonight

Now that you have had a chance to dig in and play Wing Commander, did you know that EA has a contest going tonight where you can win a 50” Plasma TV, and Xbox 360 Elite and more. All the fun kicks off tonight at 8p PT. A bunch of sites are participating (yet the xbl10kclub wasnt invited? what up EA??) in this event, so hit your favorite site from the list for details and to show them your suppport.

Sites Participating:
xbox360fanboy

gamertagradio

Unscripted360

UncleGamer

Achieve360Points

GamersHell

Destructoid

Gamefreaks365

PlanetXbox360

WCNews

EA Arcade

Kotaku

GamesRadar

KonsoleKingz

FiringSquad

Bullz-Eye.com

The Prises:

Grand Prize• 50" 1080p Flat-Panel Plasma HDTV

Theater System with Progressive-Scan

Xbox360 Elite

Extra Controller

4X Xbox Live Gold Membership

Wing Commander Arena + 11,200 Microsoft Points

Four Runners-up will each receive:

1 Xbox360 Elite videogame and entertainment system

11,200 Microsoft Points

The Rules

Qualifying Rounds: Qualifying rounds will begin at 8:00PM PST on 7/30/07 via Xbox Live Arcade.

A. This tournament is a free for all, and editors are allowed to choose what ships they want to use.
B. The Tournament will start with 2 rounds of 16 person free for all up to 25 frags. The 8 editors with thehighest frag count at the end of those rounds advance to the next round which will be 1 round up to 25 frags.The 4 editors with the highest frag count at the end of that match go to a 4 man free for all up to 25 frags.The 2 editors with the most frags go to a hosted "bear pit" match to see who can get to 20 frags first. Thereis going to be a splinter bomber ship in the pit with you and frags against him count as well. The editor whogets to 20 frags first wins the prize!C. In the event of a tie, there will be a sudden death match between the two tying parties in a 1 vs. 1 matchwith the rogue bomber in the bear pit. The party with the highest score at the end of the match will bedeclared the winner

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!

UPDATE: Xbox 360 Fanboy Wins !! (Congrad's guys ) And the best part is they plan on giving away the prise's to us the readers ...

Xbox 360 the #1 searched console on the net

According to web tracking company Hitwise, the Xbox 360 has overtaken the Wii as the most searched console on the web (for the first time since the 360s launch). At first we assumed the number increase was do to hardware problems we've seen from the 360. But when analyzing the top Xbox 360 searches (as in this top ten chart above), we don't really see searches regarding the topic. What this will mean for Microsoft keeping its lead over Nintendo is yet to be seen.

Viva Piñata coming to Nintendo DS

OK let me start off by saying that we don't normally post on other systems as you have heard Rod smack say on the zune cast many times this is an Xbox only zone. But RARE is owned by Microsoft witch owns Xbox witch is where the first viva game can be played so in the famous words of Korn "its all in the family" lol

Now that i justified myself here's what joystiq has to say about it ..

During a Viva Piñata panel at Comic-Con, Rare announced a Nintendo DS
version of their well-received Xbox 360 title, Viva Piñata. A Rare developer answered some basic questions on the PinataIsland.info forum, quelling fears that the title would not be developed by Rare – he said, "Very definitely 'yes' on this one. We have a dedicated handheld dev team." – and that the gameplay would be different – he said, "Game play wise, yes. It's the same game ... ." Still no word on whether or not the game will take advantage of the DS' Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.While it's not a huge surprise – Shane Kim intimated as much to 1UP – it's curious to see Microsoft publishing a title on a competitor's platform. If they can get the Pokemon crowd hooked on Viva Piñata via the enormously popular DS, then we're betting some of those kids just may grow up to be 360 owners.

PGR4: City List Announced

In the latest Studio Update from Bizarre Creations they have revealed the list of cities that are going to be featured in PGR4 plus details on the game's racification system. The cities are:

Macau, China
Las Vegas, USA
London, England
St Petersburg, Russia
Tokyo, Japan
New York City, USA
Shanghai, China
Quebec, Canada
Nurburgring, Germany
and a fictional Test Track sponsored by Michelin.

Bizarre also explained the racification system, an important update to the Gotham 3 cities returning in PGR4. For further information on racification and a detailed description of each city, click here.

Marathon: Durandal and Spyglass Board Games Coming to XBLA

This just in from
Gamerscoreblog.com. This week, we have two anticipated titles coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade, Marathon Durandal, and Spyglass Board Games. Both will come to Xbox LIVE Arcade for Xbox 360 this Wednesday, August 1, beginning at 9:00 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. Pacific).

Marathon: Durandal
ESRB Rating M (Mature)
800 Microsoft Points
Available Worldwide


Seventeen years ago, you survived a vicious Pfhor assault on the U.E.S.C. Marathon. Now you have been awakened by the enigmatic, sentient A.I. called Durandal and sent to an alien world to uncover the mysteries of their advanced technology. In Marathon: Durandal, armed with only a pistol, you are humanity’s last champion!

Epic story: Exclusive to Xbox LIVE® Arcade, Marathon: Durandal is a cult classic first-person shooter (FPS) that continues the tradition of great gameplay while remaining faithful to the spirit of Bungie lore as the predecessor to the Halo franchise.
Upgraded visuals: All images in the game have been redrawn in high definition.
Modern networking: Marathon: Durandal features a new modern networking layer built with Xbox LIVE in mind.
Superior control: The redesigned controls take full advantage of the Xbox 360 Controller and enhance playing a first-person shooter on a home console.
For more details on “Marathon: Durandel”, please visit http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/m/marathondurandalxboxlivearcade/.

LEGO Indiana Jones game announced

News out of Comic Con 07 that we will be getting an LEGO Indiana Jones game in 2008. here's the full press release.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - July 27, 2007 - LucasArts and TT Games today announced that LEGO® Indiana Jones®: The Videogame [working title] will whip onto game consoles everywhere in summer 2008. Developed by the same team at Traveller's Tales that created the LEGO Star Wars™ series, LEGO Indiana Jones presents a tongue-in-cheek take on the first three cinematic adventures of pop culture's most iconic archaeologist, including Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

"LucasArts and TT Games are setting the bar for next-generation family entertainment with the LEGO Star Wars franchise, and our incredible relationship continues with LEGO Indiana Jones," said Jim Ward, president of LucasArts. "In addition to providing the quality bonding time inspired by any good family game, LEGO Indiana Jones delivers something a little different for everyone. Parents will enjoy the humorous take on some of their favorite movies, and their kids get some rousing action/adventure gameplay that may also introduce them to Indy's original adventures for the first time."

"It has been a real joy to work with LucasArts on the LEGO Star Wars games. Indiana Jones is the perfect character for the next LEGO-based videogame adventure," said Tom Stone, director at TT Games. "Indy also presents us with wonderful and memorable cinematic moments. The boulder scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark in LEGO is hilarious!"

Lucasfilm Ltd. recently announced that the LEGO Group will begin releasing LEGO Indiana Jones playsets in January 2008. Meanwhile, LucasArts remains hard at work on its revolutionary, internally developed Indiana Jones videogame, which takes place a year after The Last Crusade in an original story overseen by George Lucas.

For more information on LEGO Indiana Jones, please visit http://www.legoindianajonesgame.com/.

Xbox.com Halo 3 for 3 Sweepstakes

The Xbox Newsletter has got THREE rounds of Halo 3 prizes, and three chances to win big—including all the Halo gear you could ask for. The prizes get bigger and better with each round, so be sure to register for a chance to win in all THREE rounds.

Check out the details of the prizes for each round below and Sign-up for Round 1 now! (You must register for each round to qualify for each drawing. One entry valid per round.) Official Rules Sign up for the Xbox Newsletter to find out more about the Halo3 for 3 sweepstakes registration rounds, as well as, all the other Xbox news.

Go to Xbox.com for more details .

Gears of War collectibles announced

NECA has announced a new partnership with Epic Games, in which it will produce a new line of Gears of War collectibles. The collectibles are set to include action figures, busts, dioramas, and even "prop" replicas (full size Lancer Maybe?). The collectibles are expected to be available in 2008,

Oblivion hits Japan

Bethesda has announced that the Japanese version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has shipped. The Japanese version of Oblivion has been completely localized, with nearly a million words translated, including ever book in the game. The beginning and ending cinematics have also been re-recorded in Japanese, though spoken dialogue within the game remains in English with Japanese subtitles. And the Japanese version includes the Knights of the Nine content right on the disc (as will the upcoming Game of the Year Edition in America). The game recently received rave reviews from Famitsu -- the game scored a 38, a score equaled or bettered by only 44 titles since September of 1986 -- and production director Ashley Cheng expects the game to be a "breakout hit." Furthermore, Cheng expects it will sell a few Xbox 360s,too.

Only GTAIV on 360 is complete experience

Speaking to Games Radar, Rockstar spokesperson Hosi Simon had some interesting comments regarding the Xbox 360 version of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV. When asked about the Xbox 360 exclusive episodes and whether or not the PS3 version would receive any similar perks, Simon replied, "not that I can think of." and Simon admitted, "But I guess if you want the complete experience with the episodes, then yeah, you should buy the 360, I suppose."

Win a new copy of Transformers for the Xbox 360

 Win this game this week. We're back with another giveaway. This time we're calling out all graphic artist and podcasters. All are welcome to join in, but this will be a contest, not a giveaway. What we are looking for is everyone to submit they're best work. Be creative in "showing the love" for the Xbl10kclub. All graphic artists should submit either wallpapers (1600x1200 or larger/jpg.) or Zune backgrounds (240x320/jpg. only) that represent the 10k in some way. Take photgraphs, make a mascot, make your own logo, etc., and just make sure to add the 10k in there somewhere to be eligible. All podcasters and anyone else with recording equipment should submit short audio clips (1-3 min./6 MB max.) that relate to the 10k in some way. Write intros for our show, outros for our show, theme songs for the 10k, 10k jingles, sound bytes for the show, etc. Please keep it clean. Send all entries titled "I want Transformers" to contests@xbl10kclub.com, and make sure to add your Gamertag with your entry. We will pick our favorite, and we will announce it on 8/03/2007. Please keep in mind we are offering second place prizes, and we would love to showcase all the great work we're sent. Do your best, and your work might be featured on a future Zunecast. You could also have you wallpaper or zune background made downloadable for all to use on their PC and Zune. Here's some helpful hints from 360 Style.

-Use high resolution images when making your wallpapers. You can find these at teamxbox.com and various other big xbox sites.


-Don't stretch your images. By stretching images your wallpaper loses alot of its original quality.


-If you are good at hand art , feel free to create your wallpaper by hand. Earlier this year Luigi L. won Crackdown because of his custom drawn wallpaper.


-Don't steal wallpapers from other places and call them your own. We see and know all.


-When cutting out characters or shapes from images to use in your wallpaper make sure they are not left with jaggy edges.


-If you would like some design tips before submitting your final design feel free to post your work in our 360 Style Graphics Forum. Other community members will give you plenty of constructive criticism and tips to help you perfect your art.

Good luck to you all. We are looking forward to seeing some of the great work that this community is capable of.


This contest begins: 07/27/2007
This contest ends: 08/03/2007

All prizes provided by

This game Won!:
 Yes it's true, another week gone, another game given away. We will be celebrating all month long. Don't be envious of the last winner, be the next winner! Check back all week long for more giveaway and contest announcements.
This contest is over.
Winner: nmg82
Prize: Civil War: A Nation Divided
Runner up: BubbaCo
Prize: Call of Duty 3 T-Shirt

300 in HD and Heroes Content on Marketplace

Also announced at Comic Con 07 Microsoft's partnership with Warner Bros. to feature 300 in HD on the XBLM starting August 14th and offer exclusive Heroes Marketplace downloads prior to its season one release to HD DVD. The free Heroes content will include trailers, episode teasers, promotional materials and a free Marketplace download of the pilot episode in HD.

OXM Goes Digital on Xbox Live

According to kotaku.com The Official Xbox Magazine will be branching off onto Xbox Live, and will be offering its Magazine in digital form for 200 points an issue (USD$2.50)

Smart move. People don't read mags anymore, people don't buy mags for demos anymore, so for Microsoft it's a handy way to get official editorial content and reviews back out to a userbase that's neglecting their traditional methods.
Probably the only slight hiccup is that they're going to be offering demos as part of the deal. Including exclusive demos. Demos somewhere (anywhere) on Xbox Live that you'd need to pay to get access to? Even if you're a Gold subscriber? OXM-branded or not, that might not go down too well...

HD DVD Price Cut and 5 Free Movies

Microsoft's first announcement to come out of Comic Con is an Xbox 360 HD DVD player price drop. Beginning August 1st (in the US), the Xbox 360 HD DVD player add on will receive a $20 price cut, retail for $179 and include five free HD DVD movies as part of the "Perfect Offer". The five free movie deal runs from August 1st through September 30th,

Free HD DVDs to Choose From:

Apollo 13

Blazing Saddles

Casablanca

The Chronicles of Riddick

Constantine

The Dukes of Hazzard

Four Brothers

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

The Perfect Storm

The Rundown

Seabiscuit

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

U2: Rattle and Hum

U-571

We Were Soldiers

Rumor: 360 price cut in August

Now i don't normally like reporting on rumors but this one just might end up being fact so, According to The Hollywood Reporter, Microsoft is planning a $50 price cut for the 360 in August. The unnamed retail source cited claims that the price drop will occur on August 8, two weeks The reported reason for the price cut is that August is typically a slow time of year for console sales. Industry experts have been expecting a price cut for the Xbox 360 for some time now. Many expected Microsoft to announce one during E3. Given that all three current consoles have had plenty of time to gain their legs, the timing for a price cut couldn't be much better. A $50 cut across the board would have the Core competing with the Wii at $249 and even lower the Elite to $429, much lower than the PS3's $499 price point.

300 Themed Xbox 360

Bringing it Home Comic-Con kicks off with a look at special a 300 themed Xbox 360 Elite. That's right, Microsoft and Warner Bros. have partnered to create 300 (total) Xbox 360 Elites themed with 300 style blood splatter. But before you get too excited know that these Elites will only be given away during a special movie screening at Petco field during Comic-Con, which means we have no chance at winning one of these. Oh well threes always Ebay?

MotoGP 07 Demo

Content: MotoGP'07 Demo

Price: Free

Availability: Not available in Asia

Dash Details: [ESRB: E (Everyone) MILD LYRICS] Single & multiplayer 2 race demo of MotoGP '07 - the most spectacular motorsport in the world.

Size: 901.46 MB