The Examiner has gone through the new Xbox 360 Dashboard, pointing out the good and the bad in a rather compressed way.
I miss some more details, but atleast they had a comment about the prices for the Games on Demand – which clearly shows that the overpricing on games is not just a phenomenon for the local markets as they have previously tried to point out.
Second, how useful are the new features? Games on Demand, while it sounds like a good idea, usually features games that are well over their retail price point. For example, Bioshock and Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga both sell for $29.99 on Games on Demand. These two games sell at (most) retailers for $19.99. Users won’t receive a physical disc and must use 4-8 gigabytes of their 360 hard drive’s space to download the game. If this makes it sound like an almost entirely useless feature, I apologize – it’s actually entirely useless.
The new and improved Xbox 360 Netflix is tempting me to actually setup a VPN tunnel to the US, aswell as getting an american postal address so I could sign up. Shouldn’t be too hard, people has been doing this for ages to bypass region locked content – even before the Internet became an important part of our world …
Josh Olin has revealed the intentions to release an earlier than planned update to Call of Duty: World at War because of cheaters ruining the online experience for many players – you don’t really expect see a soldier jump 60ft in a WWII game with unlimited ammo!
Quote from Call of Duty Intel Announcements:
Over the last week, we’ve received a number of reports from the community regarding issues that range from matchmaking difficulties to strange Nazi Zombie co-op behavior. These incidents have been caused by some users who are hacking their consoles and ultimately damaging the online experience of their fellow gamers. This is not isolated to Call of Duty – incidents of similar hacks have been reported across several titles.
We and our 1st party partners have been working diligently on countermeasures to these security breaches, and these will be going live in a Title Update early next week.
Important note: As a result of accelerating the release of this Title Update, users will see menu changes that were not intended to go live until the release of Map Pack 3. In short, you will see the Map Pack 3 levels in Private Match, Split Screen, & System Link. When you select these maps, you will be brought to the Marketplace blade to download them; however, they will not be available until they are released in August. This is only temporary, and you will be able to download the maps as soon as they are released.
Thank you all for your understanding and continued support, and we look forward to seeing you on the new maps next month.
No release date for Map pack 3 yet, price is expected to land at 800 MSP, just as the other map pack DLCs.
