X06: Barcelona Press Conference

[damien©]

If this kind of thing interests you then it might be worth noting that Xbox.com (UK) are broadcasting this at 6pm BST (5pm GMT)

http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/events/x06/default.htm

If you missed it, catch it second time round here
http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/events/x06/on-demand-hi.htm
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Round Up So far....(via MajorNelson)

-Doom - Xbox Live Arcade Tonight
-Sensible Soccer - Xbox Live Arcade Coming Soon
-1080p Native Support for Games
-Blue Dragon for the Whole World (not just Japan)
-GTA4 will have Exclusive Downloadable Content
-HD-DVD Drive for £129, €199 come with King Kong (Film) and Universal Remote Control.
-Next Splinter cell to be Exclusive to Xbox 360 and Games for Windows.
-A Marvel MMO for Xbox 360 and Games for Windows

[phatmuther]

they should have it stream through your 360

[damien©]

they should have it stream through your 360

that would be a class idea...in High Def aswell

[Fleeboi]

I'll definatley watch this. If you look on the banner, they have small pics of Halo 3, which are the gamer pics, but still, maybe this means that there will be more of this game there as the banner suggests.

Only 4 more hours!

[Shoitaan]

It'll be close to 4am here but I'll be up doing assignments so yeah I'll see it...

[Bigcon100]

it starts in like 10 mins!! but i have better thing to do, so i wont watch it, post anything good bout it after you finished watching it!

[damien©]

it starts in like 10 mins!! but i have better thing to do, so i wont watch it, post anything good bout it after you finished watching it!

Nope it starts in 10 mins + 2 hours...

It starts at 6pm BST or 5pm GMT, don't knw where you live but you should be able to work it out from that.

Note: No matter where you live it still starts in 2 hours 10 mins...:)

[Bigcon100]

england. hope theres some good stuff, i'll read about it tomorow

[mjmaskrey]

Ugh....playing footie so I'll miss it.

Suer I'll find a recorded show somewhere though.

:)

[Fleeboi]

Can anyone tell me why the test to see if you can view it only works for me in IE? I'd prefer using Mozilla but it gives a message of "Unknown Plugin", in IE it simply has WMP11 embeded and plays fine.

I'll make do with IE if I have to.

If you're not sure where the test link is, I've pasted it below for you to try yourself.

http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/events/x06/video-test.htm

[Bigcon100]

jus use IE. i there really a difference?

[damien©]

Well I'm using Safari and all it does is load the page, tells me that Safari can't play it and then plays it in WMP.

The video clip is of Halo E3 2006 Trailer, BTW

[Fleeboi]

jus use IE. i there really a difference?

It's all about preferance, and imo Firefox is the cats pajamas so I'd like to get this thing sorted in case I get similar problems in the future.

[Bigcon100]

well what evr you use it will still be the same video! (probaly teh same size, lengh + quality aswell)

i understand preference for browsing, but if you have to use IE to watch teh video, use IE - its not like you have to continue using it, switch back to firefox, safari or mozilla.


NOW it's 1 hour to go...

[carocat]

I use FF and it works fine for me. Is FF telling you to install a missing plugin at the top? Does it give you a link?

[mjmaskrey]

Works fine for me on FF.

:)

[damien©]

There is a link on it to manually find the Installation...Just Click that. Brings up a Webpage and download it from there.

For FF that is.

I just got this thing for my Mac that lets me play Windows Media Files in Quick Time, Sweet :D Lol

[carocat]

Fleeboi, which version of FF are you using?

[damien©]

www.xbox.com Main PAge? Runtime Error! :brow: is this a sign of things to come....

Can't play the clip.... What the F

[Fleeboi]

I'm watching it now on WMP but there's no sound. ergh

[Shoitaan]

worked fine through mozilla for me

[damien©]

I'm watching it now on WMP but there's no sound. ergh

I'm getting Runtime Error's :@...Oh well guess I won't be watching it.

[Fleeboi]

http://dl.groovygecko.net/anon.groovy/clients/xbox/live/hb_1.asx

Try that.

[damien©]

http://dl.groovygecko.net/anon.groovy/clients/xbox/live/hb_1.asx

Try that.


It says URL is not Valid

It's alright...MajorNelson is blogging all the news as it arrives. So I'll just that out later, or they might show some of it again....

Cheers anyway.,

[Blaze Lord]

they should have it stream through your 360

Oh man. You guys forget how slow some things were downloading this past week with all the Bringing It Home? And remember the same thing for E3? Can you imagine the tax on the servers that streaming even SD live would be? Horrid.

[bingo83]

jus use IE. i there really a difference?

Yes!

IE is a virus writers dream, you also get lots of pop-ups and po-under banners.

Mozilla / Firefox is more secure and eliminates most of those annoying ads.

[Blaze Lord]

Pop-unders are still an issue with Firefox though.

[Fleeboi]

WTF is Halo Wars? The trailer looked HAWT though.

[koi-C]

i got chills up my back like crazy when that started. what is going on? :o

im so confused on what Halo Wars exactly is.

[Fleeboi]

Just checked Bungie, and as I expected they've just released an update about it:

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=bungieatx06

[koi-C]

So there are 3 Halo games in the making? thats insane. :D

[leeeee35]

XO6 has been good so far i haven't seen so much news in one day,just downloaded sonic now my son is waiting.:)

[Jazza Blaze]

w00t, cant wait for doom, thatl be cool :D

and the gta thing is exclusive, so thats putting one over sony ( again :D )

[Dcontrol]

Can anyone tell me why the test to see if you can view it only works for me in IE? I'd prefer using Mozilla but it gives a message of "Unknown Plugin", in IE it simply has WMP11 embeded and plays fine.

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3098/screenfj4.th.png (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenfj4.png)

It plays on mine but in the old type windows media player but with no sound for some reason? Then I clicked the link again in the first post and now its playing it in the proper windows media player (with sound) I'm used too. That screenshot above isn't the one that I had as thats the stream test but the correct type of player I was on about. I couldn't for some unknown reason take a photo of it with the software I have, weird.

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/9761/screenzj6.th.jpg (http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenzj6.jpg)

Anybody know why it would have done this? Seems quite strange to me. Or is there a way to check what wmp that FF is currently using in the FF options? I'm now watching the video.

Off topic but I just watched the Assassins Creed video on the sites main page and it looks awesome.

[carocat]

Well, I was in an msn convo with 6 other ppl at the time and for most of it I was the only person who was able to watch it. I don't know about you guys, but xbox.xom experienced some major problems. I guess they didn't expect that many ppl watching it.

Well worth it, but what the hell was the Peter Jackson bit about?

[Shoitaan]

Basically peter jacksons film studio is now also a game studio and will be working on a Halo game. Not halo 4, a game set in the halo universe thats got the cinematic epicness of a movie with all the things that make games great.. he seemed kinda wierd and nervous to me.. a man thats won so much and spoken infront of so many people nervous infront of a small group of nerds? Wierd... maybe MS had his family hostage XD

So X06 is 2 days right? is there gonna be more unveilings and stuff today or no?