Great news for Xbox 360 owners! You know you've been asking for more memory? Looks like it's coming our way!
Available first for Xbox Preview Program users, there will be an update which will add support for 2TB hard drives. It will also include support for 2 external hard drives at once. This update will become available Xbox Preview Program users soon, with general public receiving it later in the year. It's that time of year where everyone's getting geared up for EGX in September, the UK gaming expo that usually is held in Earl's Court in London on the last weekend of September. The four day event is the best place for gamers to try out the upcoming games for the year, months before release.
Unfortunately, Earl's Court is being torn down to make way for upmarket housing and a high street. This is a sad thing to happen, as Earls Court is a historic part of London. For more information on the campaign against the plans, please see SaveEarlsCourt who have been campaigning since the plans were announced - even making appearances outside the last 2 Eurogamer Expos. Due to this (and possibly also due to size requirements), the decision was made that Eurogamer 2015 would instead be held at Birmingham's NEC. This larger venue holds alot of promise, as more space could result in more games, less crowding and more admittance. EGX 2015 will be on the last weekend of September, as usual, and tickets have gone on sale at the end of February. Already at time of posting, early entry tickets have already sold out but it looks like there are still lots more tickets available for the 4 day event. No games have been announced yet, but they should follow soon. Alot of the games from this years E3 will undoubtedly be there as well as the yearly returners such as Call Of Duty, and maybe even Halo. Of course, nothing is official until it is announced on the EGX website in the "What's On" section. A section will be dedicated to the announcements and news for the event as of now, so please be sure to check it out. Please be aware that this article will be updated as more content and information becomes available. Please be sure to check back to stay up to date. Last updated: 1900 GMT 09/04/2015 Incase anyone doubted the teaser video etc. then here is official confirmation from Activition on Twitter! CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS 3 OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCEDThat's right ladies and gents, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 is coming. YouTubers within the Call Of Duty community received a trailer not long ago, and it has now been shared among the world! Here you go guys, enjoy! UPDATE: 1700 09/04/2015 We have been given a new snapchat video, this time with another voiceover again. This time, he says "Our greatest barrier is our own fear, our own doubts" and the video shows a black background with a few embers floating across the screen. The above is the clip, filmed by YouTube user THERHYD1Z3L and you can clearly see the ember effect I mentioned earlier. This reminded me of a supposed "leak" from a couple of months ago. In this "leak" the video showed an xbox home screen with "Black Ops 3" and even went in to the game menu. On the loading screens where it shows the Activision and the Treyarch logo, you can see the ember effect again. There is nothing to clarify whether this leak is real or not, but at the time it was slated as fake. However.... could it have been originally uploaded by an employee within Treyarch or Activision that simply wanted to show off what they could for online rep? Or is it indeed fake? No one truely knows, but you can't deny that the ember effect is present in both the leak and the official snapchat. Here's the leak below: This footage does move around alot, which is a pain, but it could have been the person filming it was simply trying to do it sneakily to avoid getting caught filming. Of course, whoever the person was would have gotten into alot of trouble undoubtedly. The original video was removed from YouTube, but not before user 10tennyson was able to grab the clip and re-upload it. I repeat, this leak video is not confirmed as either real or fake so must be taken with a pinch of salt. But what do you think? UPDATE: 1200 09/04/2015 As many of you know from previous Call Of Duty titles and indeed most games there is always a massive hype when a reveal is imminent. Whether it be a date for a reveal, or a leak, or even a well orchestrated Snapchat project - the hype grows astoundingly fast. Within this hype, many come across relevent and irrelevent information snooping around the internet with whatever information they have gotten so far. Thanks to people like these, we find things that we hadn't found ourselves! Many know Sgt. Frank Woods from the previous games, but he also has a YouTube channel by the actor who portrays him "James C Burns". Reddit users last night reported finding that his last 3 videos, all posted within the past few days, all contains a set of numbers in the description. In the first video, was 62, in the second was 40 and in the third was 5102. These may just mean nothing, but it can't be coincidence that if you turn them around, the numbers give an upcoming date - 26/04/2015. Again, this could be absolutely unrelated and mean absolutely nothing.... but could we possibly be looking at a reveal date? Maybe even a date we should be checking back to Sgt Frank Wood's channel? Only time will tell, as there has been nothing official said yet. Please stay tuned for more information as it becomes available. Original Post - 08/04/2015 In the new 3 year cycle now also including Sledgehammer, next up is Treyarch's next Call of Duty title. While no official information has been given by the developers, Black Ops 2 players have been finding that some of the advertisements on billboards around the multiplayer maps now have a Snapchat ghost. These can be scanned using the snapchat app to add "Dr Salim" to your contacts. So far, "Dr Salim" has posted five 10 second snaps, and a picture. The Snapchat account didn't originally have the name "Dr Salim", this only changed after the second clip. Below is a video by YouTuber OGZxFTW showing where you can find two of these Snapchat QR codes, and the first clip posted. The voice over for the first clip is an older sounding gentleman saying "Listen only to the sound of my voice." The clip shows an eye closing, and then a forest. Could this possibly be a reference to Woods, a previous Black Ops 1 & 2 character? Alot of people are speculating that how the sunlight falls on the ground could be to show the III that could be pointing towards Black Ops 3. As you can see in the video, there is one found on the map Express and one found on the map Plaza. The code on Express can be found on a billboard advertising perfume just outside the map in the ticket office area. If you open up Snapchat and hover your camera over the QR Code and tap the screen, it will add a "Dr Salim". This is the Call Of Duty account that is posting the clips for the next title. Below are further videos from the same YouTuber before, showing the rest of the clips so far at the time of posting this article. In this second clip, the same voice says "Let your thoughts drift, let the bad memories fade, let peace be upon you" and shows alot of different clips including a little girl, a lake, a sunset, a military helicopter, soldiers and a cat scan. As I said previously, the account name changed between the second clip and the third. There was also a picture posted on Snapchat by the account before the third video. This picture showed a moon over what looks to be a lake or the sea. As you can see below, if you apply certain filters to the picture you can see the name "Dr Salim" above the moon. In the third clip, the voice says "Imagine somewhere calm. Imagine somewhere safe. Imagine yourself in a frozen forest." The clips in this video include a mountain range, a stream, crows, a snowy forest and the woods from the first clip.
Unfortunately, OGZxFTW did not have the next clip on his YouTube so instead I am using MrDalekJD's videos for this and the next clip. This clip did not have a voice over, but instead has the sound of a cat scanner. As expected, this clip shows more of the cat scan images we saw in a previous clip as well as the soldier's walking along and the woods again. Again in this clip, there is no voice over. This clip shows the crows that we saw in a previous clip, grouped around eating something and you briefly see a glimpse of a wolf. A new clip has been released in the last half an hour, showing a snowy mountain range. It looks like the same mountain range we have seen in a previous clip, and again there is no voice over. We shall upload a video as soon as one becomes available! Having made a big effort on a different way to announce a game, it was a shame that unfortunately Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was leaked during their 3 day reveal stream on Twitch. However now that the stream has ended, Square Enix have officially announced the next console installment in the Deus Ex series. Set in 2 years after the events of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the game will be set in 2029 and will again feature the same heavily-augmented protagonist - Adam Jenson. Along with the game being revealed, as has it's box art and a companion app which is available now for download. At present no release date has been given, but there's a chance that will be revealed sometime around E3. Below you can find the official announcement trailer, enjoy! |
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