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New Xbox Experience Dated, Halo 3 Recon'd, and More

Added by Jeff on Oct. 9, 2008 44 comments

The old man himself is making his way to the Xbox 360,.

John Schappert, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of Xbox Live, Services and Software, gave a keynote address here at the Tokyo Game Show this year and used his time to announce new Xbox 360 releases and give more details on the future of the platform. Here's a recap of the details:

The "New Xbox Experience" dashboard update will be released on November 19.
Star Ocean: The Last Hope will be released on March 3 in North America.
Halo Wars was shown and a release timeframe of "early next year" was given.
Bungie's Halo 3 add-on/expansion/new game/whatever was given a full name of Halo 3: Recon and a release window of Fall 2009.

Newly Announced on 360:

Ninety-Nine Nights 2
Tekken 6

Newly Announced for Xbox Live Arcade:

Space Invaders Extreme
Arkanoid
Metal Slug 7
The King of Fighters '98: Ultimate Match
R-Type Dimensions

For more details on Microsoft's keynote, check out Joystiq's live blog of the event or just listen to the whole thing yourself over on Major Nelson's blog.

Filed under : Microsoft Game Studios, Star Ocean: The Last Hope , Halo Wars, Halo 3: ODST, Xbox 360, Xbox Live Marketplace

45 Comments

Meatsim
on Oct. 9, 2008

I was wondering when this new dashboard update was finally gonna come out.

megaplushie
on Oct. 9, 2008

I'm really looking forward to the New Xbox Experience and Star Ocean: The Last Hope. It's gonna be a long month for me with NXE. :|

MonkeysDad
on Oct. 9, 2008

Not to bothered about NXE from a graphical standpoint, just want to be able to put Gears 2 straight onto the hard drive. First game thrashed my DVD drive.

LordAndrew is online
on Oct. 9, 2008

Does Japan really care about Halo?

Mittt
on Oct. 9, 2008

Halo3: Recon? lol...Priceless....

maskedaprentice
on Oct. 9, 2008

Wait halo comes out fall 09? When I saw the trailer I was like oh wow they're doing that quick....wait a second...09? The hell are they doing?

jhosaphat
on Oct. 9, 2008

i can haz recon!

Tarsier
on Oct. 9, 2008

What a great few months we have here for games!

mr_tickles
on Oct. 9, 2008

So...I'm confused...Is the Halo 3: Recon the squad based shooter?

I know Jeff said that it is the Halo 3 expansion.....but why the hell would you name something "Recon" that is an expansion of an existing game and then come up with a new IP that is tactical in nature and give it another name?

Just seems a really dumb title.

TheWorstPlayerEver
on Oct. 9, 2008

good to finally get an official release date for the New Xbox Experience. Im excited to play some Space Invaders Extreme. That game looked rad

ferrarimanf355
on Oct. 9, 2008

Tekken 6 on the Xbox 360?

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qIbFqhTgHw

Once MS comes clean and announces a Blu-ray add on for the X360, I'm ditching my PS3. srsly...

Lumley
on Oct. 9, 2008

I was going to buy space invaders extreme for my ds but opted out..

now I can buy it on XBLA :)

ProfessorEss
on Oct. 9, 2008

New R-Type!!

Since playing R-Type Zero I've been really hoping for a 360/PS3 version. Very pleased :)

Joshy
on Oct. 9, 2008

feels like not many mega crazy anouncements really, tekken 6 is pretty huge but i'm not big on fighting games.

Aaox
on Oct. 9, 2008

I can haz reconz in Fall 09... that's a long time...

Like, a year, or something.

albedos_shadow is online
on Oct. 9, 2008

King of Fighters, you say? Sold.

Pseudo_Sidious
on Oct. 9, 2008

Was Ninety-Nine Nights really good enough to warrant a second game? I thought that game was kinda mediocre. Isn't a 2nd game just money down the drain?

KillerToaster
on Oct. 9, 2008

Column Head 1	Column Head 2

yay another fighter! -_- .... Just give me the movies, which i normaly get after beating the game with a char.

Milkman
on Oct. 9, 2008

Wow, I'm very surprised that that much decent information was released by Microsoft there. TGS hardly sounds the place where they would reveal the release date of NXE or Halo: Recon.

Irishjohn
on Oct. 9, 2008

Ok, Ninety-Nine Nights 2? What? As for Halo 3, unless that's a standalone game, Fall 2009 makes absolutely no sense.

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