Here is some gameplay footage from the recently released Frontlines: Fuel of War

Review of "Frontline: Fuel of War" for Xbox 360

Saw the trailer for this on television, looks incredible!

The first project for Kaos Studios (a division of THQ founded by veterans of Trauma Studios, creators of Desert Combat and Battlefield 2 R&D projects), Frontlines: Fuel of War uses the advanced Unreal 3 engine for futuristic, intense fights in an open-world battlefield. In this all-too-bleak future of constant wars over natural resources, two sides compete for global supremacy: the Western Coalition (the United States and the European Union) and the Red Star Alliance (Russian/People's Republic of China). The game's nonlinear single-player campaign has players advancing their side's frontline into enemy territory.

"Frontline features roughly 60 futuristic weapons and vehicles to use, from airplanes to jeeps and everything in between. So many vehicles certainly add to the fun, making the missions fresh and vibrant as new vehicles come about in new maps. My personal favorite is the armored bus, which is a regular bus fitted with menacing barbed-wire and a huge gun bolted to the top. It truly is hell on wheels when it's under the control of the other team, but it's a lot of fun being inside it when it's on your team."

Article and comments courtesy of IGN.com and associatedcontent.com. The title went on the shelves two days ago.

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Warranty Report Pegs Xbox 360 Failure Rates at 16 Percent

Majority of all Xbox 360 failures are from Red Ring of Death

The vulnerability of the Xbox 360 to a hardware failure known as the Red Ring of Death is a well publicized matter. Last summer, amidst a flurry of reports from Xbox 360 owners, DailyTech exposed retailers’ estimates that up to 33 percent of Xbox 360 consoles experience hardware failures within the first year of ownership.
Electronics and appliances warranty company SquareTrade now claims that it found a 16.4 percent normal-use failure rate on the Xbox 360. The figure, if true, shows that Microsoft has steadily improved the reliability of its console considerably – though still not up to the level of general acceptability.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates expressed earlier this year his aim for the Xbox 360 to be the most reliable console on the market. “We've got incredible reliability on the new work we've done,” he said. “Our commitment is that it will be the most reliable video game box out there. People really love the Xbox because of the content, but we've got to make sure that the hardware never stands in the way of that.”

Article courtesy dailytech.com

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Rumor: Xbox 360 Blu-ray Peripheral Within 3 Months

With the expected announcement from Toshiba that the company is going to stop making new HD-DVD players, the whispers that an Xbox 360 Blu-ray player is on the way have become quite loud.
The latest rumor comes by way of the Australian website Smarthouse, which is reporting that Microsoft has already been secretly working on the peripheral which could be released in an astonishingly quick period of time.
"Insiders at Microsoft in the USA have told SmartHouse that Microsoft has already configured a standalone Blu-ray player that can be connected into an Xbox 360 and that subject to internal marketing and sales approvals the model could be on sale within 3 months," reports the website.
The last time the company talked about the subject was when Microsoft Vice President of Global Marketing Jeff Bell was asked about the possibility of going Blu.
"You never say never. I think we'd like to see how things evolve. Our commitment, however, to HD-DVD is profound and consistent, and we have done very, very well in term of our accessory sales," he told 1UP.

Article courtesy s-times.net