XBOX 360 to get Half Life 3!!! (and a QWERTY KEYB and GTA)

[Joe]

As far as we can tell this is completely legit, although when we queried Microsoft about a QWERTY keyboard for the 360 controller earlier all a spokesperson would say is that "We haven't announced peripheral plans yet".

A second interesting nugget to slip out the Spanish event focuses on a slide titled "XNA Technology Map" (see second image top-right). Look closely in the centre of the image and there's a box labelled 'Game Engines". In that box there's a list of developers and associated technology and you may notice that roughly in the middle of that list there's mention of Valve and Half-Life 3.

Half-Life 3 confirmed for Xbox 360! Well, we wouldn't actually go shouting it from the rooftops just yet but we'd bet our prize collection of videogame kitsch that Valve will deliver such a sequel, and 360 would be an extremely likely platform destination.

And finally. Anyone curious about cable connectivity from Xbox 360 to TV should have a gander at the third picture on this page, which is a snap of a slide showing, erm, cable connectivity from Xbox 360 to TV and, among other things, reveals that there's support for up to 1920x1080 resolution.

There we go, a little something to chew over on this Monday morning of dreary weather.

P.S. We've sneaked in a fourth photo from the presentation that shows publisher and developer support for Xbox 360. You'll notice that the Rockstar logo is among those present. Grand Theft 360? Well we wouldn't bet against it.

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[Eguy]

I will still stick with the PS3...nothing will change my mind

 

[NickS]

Ps3 Rox.

Ditto .

 

[FragTek]

w00tage... can't wait for xb360 to be sitting next to the tv

 

[Eguy]

w00tage... can't wait for xb360 to be sitting next to the tv

dont tell me this is you frag

:rollingla :rollingla :rollingla :rollingla :rollingla :rollingla jk mate

 

[bloodthirst]

rofl dont tell me that is you??

 

[NickS]

That's like Frag, 10 years ago.

 

[FarFarAway]

WellI like the PS3, but HL3 on Xbox would go some way to convincing me...although I'd want a mouse

 

[bloodthirst]

That's like Frag, 10 years ago.

lol are you serious?

 

[balilu]

yeah that pic has a story behind it. that kid's father works with MS and his father brought home the xbox 360 for testing. the kid after someime went just posting on the net and forums that he has a xbox 360. the funny thing is that the xbox is connected to an old 14" crt TV loool

 

[FragTek]

My dad used to bring home all sorts of spiffy shit when he worked at MS... Long long before MS got in to consoles though

 

[Eguy]

WellI like the PS3, but HL3 on Xbox would go some way to convincing me...although I'd want a mouse

C'mon kemp, HL3 will be better on a rig with sli 7800 GTX :rotfl:

 

[FragTek]

C'mon kemp, HL3 will be better on a rig with sli 7800 GTX :rotfl:

Ehh ummm... The graphics processing power of the xb360 and the ps3 will both FAR surpass the processing power of the 7800GTX.

 

[Eguy]

yah..

well actually.. its ATi so... :rotfl:

jk of course its better!

 

[ionicle_old]

i cant stand some p.c games, especially first person shooter's the only exeption is halo, cos i can play it on xbox, i like controlers, not keybords!

 

[NickS]

i cant stand some p.c games, especially first person shooter's the only exeption is halo, cos i can play it on xbox, i like controlers, not keybords!

I despize controllers.

You take like 5 seconds to spin around 180º. By then your a pile of blood and bone.

In PC games, you can swing around in .5 seconds if you have a good mouse lol.

 

[Eguy]

i cant stand some p.c games, especially first person shooter's the only exeption is halo, cos i can play it on xbox, i like controlers, not keybords!

You can get a pc controller....

Halo pwns with teh xfx xgear

 

[ionicle_old]

maybe, but to me it pwns pc performance on the xbox