Sweet...Hold 'Em and Lumines for me. I have lots of points already.

Sadly, I predict all four of those will be coming my way. Damn you for bringing TP and Scramble with updated graphics! damn you to hell!!!!!!!

I have never heard of Time Pilot or Scramble. What are they?

TP was one of the bestest colecovision games EVER!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Pilot

And Scramble ate a shitload of my allowance as a kid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_%28arcade_game%29

I'm assuming this is Time Pilot.
I found a playable verion here. Use the left and right arrow to move and the space bar to shoot. It's kind of hard.

http://www.freeonlinegames.com/play/48.html

Edit: I see Liver&Onions already beat me to it.

Damn it all these new games, quick someone find one those cool deals on Microsoft Points.

Hold em and Lumines for me as well. Can't wait for those.

No free hold'em = no sale!

I need a demo for lumines. It gets a ton of buzz, so i need to see it myself. What's it like?

Has it been confirmed yet that hold'em will not be free? I know everyone is speculating, I just can't believe that with eveything MS has done right with XBLA that they would make such a huge mistake as to tell the public it would be free, then to charge money for it. I mean, even if they lose money on it, at least it would keep the spirit high with the current 360 owners and increase the chances of getting a great opinion of them from other non-360 players. It really is a bad PR move.

I don't understand why they don't just give it away for free and then every other week or something add a different company's name as the current sponsor. It would allow for an endless amount of money since someone would always be interested in getting to the userbase.

I thought Hold'em would use the camera. When does that come out?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-ente...iew-192652.php

Chris

Camera is listed on ebgames.com as September 19th.

I'm excited for it.

Anyone else having a hell of a time connecting their 360 to a pc using windows media connect? I just can't seem to get them to recognize each other. I installed WMC and it seemed to go fine but when I go to the media connect part of my media page on the 360 it keeps timing out after the IP address part. Whats the deal? I should just be able to connect the firewire/ethernet cable to the back of my pc and just go right? Or do I need to be connected to the pc and the web at the same time? Any help would be appreciated.

Make sure you run network setup wizard on your pc (in control panel). Use mshome as your workgroup name

I think Hold 'Em costs money now...I think there was licensing issues or something. Something went wrong, I'm hoping 400.

Anyways, apparently the F.E.A.R. demo is supposed to be on the next OXM. Someone at CAG was playing it, but it was very cryptic. Although, it said he was playing the demo on xbox.com. So, seems promising.

Supposedly the company backing Hold'em backed out at the last minute. This probably led to canges to the interface which in turn delays the game.

I'm looking forward to F.E.A.R.

The interface looks pretty good to me. No traces of any sponser exist.

Live Wednesdays:

Pac-Man

NO WAY!

I noticed EBGames has two versions of the LIVE Vision camera listed a stand alone for $39.99, and a kit for $79.99. The kit seems to include the camera, a headset, 1 month gold, and UNO. Which seems overpriced to me 39.99 + 19.99 + 7.99 + 5.00 = $72.97. Maybe there is something else included in the kit that they missed, although I don't need another headset or 1 month of gold anyway.

I'm looking forward to Lumines Live!, and the F.E.A.R. demo (my OXM seems to always be late thought).

My OXM is also always late. I'm very glad they are selling the camera alone - i would have been annoyed if i had been forced to buy a bundle with Uno when i already have the game.

You don't need to change your Workgroup to mshome as was suggested. Are you running a software firewall on your PC like ZoneAlarm or similar? If you are, you need to go into your settings and allow the IP address for your 360. If you have not assigned a static address for the 360 then you need to allow a range of all address in your LAN to access your PC as your router will assign a different address each time you power on the 360. If you are not using a third party firewall but you are using Windows firewall you need to go into your settings for WinF and reset your settings. If this dosen't work call Xbox.

This is one of those times where they should put an * next to Uno* and in the fine print say "*400 marketplace points good towards Uno or any number of games, themes or gamerpics."

Remember the mention of MSFT published titles being 49.99? I got a response from the PR rep today and here's what he said about Gears of War coming in at $59.99. Remember, I'm just the messenger

"It's up to publishers to value their games and it's up to the market to decide if publishers get it right. Microsoft is dedicated to bringing the most dynamic next-generation games into the hands of gamers everywhere. With the rising cost of game development, especially blockbuster titles, we must periodically adjust our pricing plans in order to ensure that gamers are able to experience the best possible product that the Xbox 360 has to offer. Of course, every game will be evaluated for value on a case-by-case basis-that won't change. As for us, we will ship our games at parity pricing with the current generation."