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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Rainbow Six Vegas:Winner of the best first-person shooter at E3 2006.


Team Rainbow makes its next-generation hardware debut in the most dramatic installment of the renowned first-person shooter franchise to date. In Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Vegas, Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in Sin City threatens to take world terrorism to new, uncontrollable heights.
The future of global security hangs in the balance as you battle to defend classic Vegas locations and environments like Fremont Street, the Strip, and world-famous casinos. Experience Las Vegas like never before, through revolutionary next-generation technology as you work against the clock to keep one of the world’s most recognizable cities from utter devastation. For more info on the latest Rainbow Six release...click HERE
............photo courtesy xequted.com

Trying out some new logo's for the team...


We've been toying around with some new logo's for the team. May have some shirts printed up and available for the next LAN event too....who knows!

Let us know what you think....

Bye bye XBTR Online Forum....for now

The people have spoken, and we have listened. For the time being, we have disabled the XBTR Online Forum and enabled "comments" on the XBTR blogger main page. What does this mean to you? It means, you can now post comments based on information and articles you read while on the main page of the XBTR website. Your comments will be available for all to see and to reply to as they see fit. Why not try it out today...

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Gears of War, One Million Sold, Number One on Xbox Live


As Gears of War® emerges throughout the world ahead of the holiday sales rush, the Xbox 360™ juggernaut has sold an impressive one million copies world-wide in just its first two weeks of release—elevating the game to the fastest-selling title of 2006 and fastest-selling Xbox 360 game of all time. The battle rages on Xbox Live® as well—more than 850,000 unique gamers have engaged in 10 million gameplay sessions while unlocking an impressive 7 million achievements. On top of being the number one title on Xbox Live, Gears of War has also driven new members to the network, as paid registrations per day have skyrocketed more than 50 percent since the game's launch. Critical AcclaimPropelling its rise to popularity, Gears of War has been crowned the best next generation game of the year by over 45 publications, earning a 95 percent average review score (as tracked by www.gamerankings.com.) Critics everywhere overwhelmingly agree and have united to make Gears of War one of the best-reviewed games of all time. "From the very beginning, we knew Gears of War would be an industry-defining hit," said Shane Kim, corporate vice president at Microsoft Game Studios. "As we watched both the game and its hype grow, it became obvious that Gears of War was the rare title that could live up to such incredible anticipation, and judging from the reaction of critics and fans, it's done just that." .....article courtesy xbox.com (11/22/06)

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

New look for XBTR Blog!

Hello again everyone! Yes, it's been sometime since my last post, and while GhostRiderTGAC (XBOX Live! Ambassador) has been extremely active in the XBOX community since our last event, I admittedly have been a slacker, partly due to the fact that it has taken me this long to secure an XBOX360. Yes, you heard it right, the co-founder of XBTR finally acquired a NEW XBOX360, and appropriately enough, on the same day "the other guys" released their new gaming console to America. The irony in all this is that I was the one who originally hooked GhostRider into purchasing his XBOX, and with his persistence and continual updates about what was going on in the community, he finally convinced me to upgrade as well. And WOW, what a difference a year makes! I'm thrilled with the capabilities of the new console, and I'm certain I've only scratched the surface in discovering what it's true potential really is. Only moments ago, GhostRider and I were talking about some of the latest and greatest downloads available, so now I have to go upstairs and start downloading again. A couple of minor changes before I go though. My new gamertag is now "IcemanXBTR", so if you have a moment, send me a friend invitation so we can get to playing again. Seconly, the only new title I've purchased so far is Gears of War, which is alot of fun, however I'm always up for a good match of Halo2.

It's great to be back, I'll try not to be a stranger!

IcemanXBTR