I shouldn't say highlights in red, but turns your scope red, or something to let you know that you are on target.

Lego Star Wars 2 demo is up on market place for us broke people or people on the fence.

Anyone have some guesses to what will come out of Barcelona (X06) tomorrow?

My guesses:

Black Xbox 360 for the holidays
Official HD-DVD pricing announcement for Europe & North America
A New Halo 3 trailer, perhaps a playable multiplayer level
Fable 2 trailer
Some new game demos on the marketplace: Perhaps Crackdown, Splinter Cell, Need for Speed: Carbon, etc.

Footage should start at 12 p.m. EST / 9 a.m. PST on the 27th and runs through the 29th.

I can't imagine they would let anything from Halo 3 out so early - especially since it would set the fans aflame with criticism no matter what they achieved and they would want a grand unveiling anyways.

Having said that, i would just about pass out if i saw a downloadable playable level from Halo 3. That might be all the game i would need for a little bit.

Supposedly there is a bungie podcast that was just posted recently that said something for Halo 3 will be shown. This is all from reading, I haven't actually listened to it yet.

*edit - found it:
Bungie Podcast

I expect the big guns (halo/GOW stuff) when PS3 comes out for reals.

They'll save it to counter anything good Sony might have up its sleeve.

Some X06 RUmors:
Supposedly some X06 announcements that somebody posted on a couple forums.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/x06/rum...dup-203314.php

"Tommorow is the X06 conference in Barcelona. Some info has been leaked including some big surprises. Here is a list of what is going to be anounced tommorow. Tune in for the confernce at Xbox.com from 6pm GMT.

Gears of War single player and multiplayer videos shown. Playable on show floor.

HD-DVD anouncement. Release date and price for Europe and United States. £119.99/E149.99 and December 1st release in Europe.$199.99 USD and November 24th release in US.
All will be bundled with Universal Media Remote.

A new Halo 3 trailer is shown. Some multiplayer info revealed. Aiming for 50-64 player online. Announce that Halo 3 will be the first game to run natively on 1080p. They will make full use of this update. Available in 2007. Playable behind closed doors.

More info about 1080p and how it will be done. New dashboard announcement. Release date revealed for late November. Will allow users to try out homebrew content made with XNA game express.

More news on Live Anywhere and how it will function. Talk about function with Zune and XBLA titles.

Rare show off new version of Killer Instinct for the 360. Will support 4 player tag matches. Playable on show floor.

Alan Wake shown and fully playable. Will also be availble on Windows Vista. Coming this Spring.

Fable 2 trailer shown. Multiplayer confirmed.

Black Xbox 360 anounced. Available this Christmas around the world. New Xbox 360 core and premium bundles shown. Xbox 360 Classics game list. Kameo, PDZ included. More this spring including Oblivion.

Many more videos and games are playable. I have just listed some of the major ones."

Yowsa! Looks like a great show for the 360. Can't wait for info on the new bundles.

Crap! I want a Black 360, but do not have money for a 2nd unit.

Holy crap!! I'm hoping at least half of that stuff is true.

Bring on Alan Wake!

I downloaded and played through this one, and it's a cool demo. There doesn't seem to be a timer, and you get to play through a stage using up to six different characters. They give you goals to achieve, and if you do so it unlocks two more characters for you to use after you get through the stage and then play free play mode, with 14 characters to play as in free play mode overall.

I don't really think it convinced me to buy the game, at least not at full price right now. I'd pick it up for $20 down the line though.

I believe the xbox version will work on a 360 and it's $10 cheaper. You lose the achievements and the enhanced graphics though.

Very happy to hear more about this. I still listen to the Killer Cuts CD on my iPod at work. I got out of gaming for a bit but my aunt bought me the SNES that came with Killer Instinct when I was in college and I only ever bought 1 other game for the system. I played the hell out of that game.

Yet another rumor

Is Capcom's top franchise set for Xbox 360 exclusivity?

Speculation over the destination of Capcom's latest Resident Evil horror blockbuster has been reignited, with Xbox Japan boss Takashi Sensui refusing to deny fresh rumours that Microsoft has snatched exclusivity for the game.

The first next-gen instalment in Capcom's lucrative zombie franchise, which was announced for both PS3 and 360 last year, was conspicuous by its complete absence from this week's pivotal Tokyo Game Show, despite being pencilled in for a release by March 2007 according to the Japanese company's own fiscal reports.

Industry chatter at the Tokyo event claimed Resident Evil's no-show is owing to Microsoft tying up a shock exclusivity deal for 360, with an announcement due at the US firm's X06 event in Barcelona next week.

Speaking exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz at TGS 2006, Xbox boss Sensui refused to pour cold water on the rumour when questioned, stating that it had already been announced for Xbox 360 and adding, somewhat enigmatically: "All I can say is we are very good friends with Mr Inafune [the game's producer]".

Capcom, for its part, has not made any suggestion that Resident Evil 5's original status as a PS3 and Xbox 360 title has changed. But the former Sony stalwart has been forging increasingly close ties with Microsoft. Survival-horror romp Dead Rising, a 360-exclusive, recently released to great success in Europe, and a further hotly-tipped Xbox-only title, Lost Planet, is due in January. Capcom is also currently working on a separate Resident Evil title, Umbrella Chronicles, exclusively for Nintendo's Wii system.

Should the rumours prove to be of substance, the securing of 360 exclusivity for Resident Evil 5 would clearly be a massive coup for Microsoft. The series commands a huge global fanbase which would boost its console's appeal in all territories.

Industry watchers today said the onus was now on Capcom to clarify the status of the title in light of the current speculation. A spokesperson for the Japanese publisher was unavailable for comment.

Capcom has killed the exclusive rumor.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=3884&Itemid=2

Can't you just change the skin? Granted, finding a plain black front panel is difficult to do.

Thanks for the heads up man.

I love that Marketplace when it comes to stuff like this.

Sonic the Hedgehog demo is up. It's only 315 megs too.

Oh, nice.

sonic is pretty cool ... graphics are clean and fast .. looks like a good one for the kids to play

I love it too. Right now I'm broke so I've been playing the nba2k7 demo over and over.

It's still a platformer of sorts, right? I'll never understand that line of thinking.

No Totemball for the 2nd week in a row makes me a sad panda.

No guns and primary colors = kiddy game to some people. Go figure.