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From kotaku.com(1) (http://kotaku.com/359668/microsoft-cuts-indie-royalties-in-half )/kotaku.com(2) (http://kotaku.com/359750/microsoft-responds-to-royalties-cut-rumor ):[QUOTE]News of Microsoft’s democratization of indie game development was overshadowed this week by an increasing discontent among established indie developers that the company was halving the royalties paid to them for future Xbox Live Arcade projects, several well-informed sources told Kotaku.Several developers directly affected by the cut told Kotaku that […]

Originally the ‘XNA Creators Club Game Launcher’ was set to go ‘offline’ on February 24th, but David Weller (http://letskilldave.com/archive/2008/02/22/stop-the-presses-xna-creators-club-game-launcher-download-time-extended.aspx ) announced it will be extended:[QUOTE]Due to overwhelming response, we’ve decided to extend the time window where people can download the XNA Creators Club Game Launcher and play the games during the trial of Xbox LIVE […]

From sfgate.com (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/20/BUM0V51LL.DTL&type=tech ):[QUOTE]Microsoft Corp. is poised to try a hostile takeover of Yahoo Inc. by nominating its own slate of directors if the Sunnyvale Web portal fails to start negotiating its sale, according to a person familiar with the matter.Microsoft’s plan comes a little more than a week after Yahoo formally rebuffed a $44.6 […]

From xbox360fanboy.com (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/02/20/rumor-canada-getting-a-50-xbox-360-price-drop/ ):[QUOTE]The FutureShop [Canada] employee got his hands on an upcoming sales ad that lists all Xbox 360 models at $50 cheaper than normal retail. So, that puts the Pro system at $349 and the Elite at $449. Now the only question is whether or not this $50 Canadian discount is a one […]

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500 Thrill Points - Z, C, B, Z, C, B, C$50,000 Cash - C, Z, B, C, Z, B, AUnlock All Minigames - C, Z, B, C, Z, B, RightUnlock All Missions - C, Z, B, C, Z, B, ZUnlock All Parks - C, Z, B, […]

From gamerscoreblog.com (http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2008/02/22/557642.aspx ) (FYI: MS owned blog):[QUOTE]We crowned the winners of the Xbox LIVE Arcade Awards at GDC. In January, more than 26,000 people voted for their favorite Xbox LIVE Arcade games, chosen by a panel of select industry journalists. The winners for the first six categories were determined by popular vote, with […]

From reuters.com (http://www.reuters.com/article/fundsFundsNews/idUSN2040685320080221 ):[QUOTE]Microsoft said in a statement it would cut the price of the Xbox 360 console to C$349 from C$399, while the premium Elite model with a larger hard drive would drop to C$449 from C$499. The more basic Arcade model is dropping to $279 from C$299.But prices in the United States will […]

Xorloser (http://xorloser.com/ ) released some useful new developer tools for Xbox360 XEX files.* XexTool v5.2[QUOTE]This is simply the best tool i have ever made :)It is the culmination of 3 years of work with the Xbox360 executable/dll containers known as xex files.With XexTool you can do pretty much anything you want to an xex file […]

From reuters.com (http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2118265320080221 ):[QUOTE]All six major Hollywood studios are now in the Blu-ray DVD camp, a day after Toshiba pulled the plug on HD DVD and Blu-ray became effectively the only next-generation game in town.Paramount Home Entertainment quietly came onboard via a statement issued Wednesday to The Hollywood Reporter: “We are pleased that the industry […]

In our previous news post (http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EkpFVFkZppAFKZsLih.php ) I already posted all highlights and official press releases from Microsoft’s GDC08 keynote and now you can download the entire keynote (audio) from majornelson’s blog (http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/02/20/game-developers-conference-2008-microsoft-keynote.aspx ) (mp3, 01:12:01, 32.9 MB).The new trailer for Gears of War 2 is now available on Xbox LIVE (only in Australia, Canada, […]