Project Natal For xBox 360 - The Natal Project

Project Natal For xBox 360 - The Natal Project

Modern Warfare 2 Expansion and Project Natal - Confirmed 2010

The blockbuster video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is about to get bigger. Microsoft announced an an exclusive expansion pack for the Xbox 360 at CES this evening, and also confirmed that the Project Natal motion controller will be released for the 2010 holiday season--the pricing was not revealed.

Update: According to Activision, the Modern Warfare 2 is a timed exclusive, available first on Xbox 360--in other words, not forever.

"2010 will be the biggest year in Xbox's history," according to Craig Beilinson, the Director of Marketing for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division. Beilinson also cited the long list of exclusives coming this year: Crackdown 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Mass Effect 2, Fable 3, Halo: Reach, and the Modern Warfare 2 expansion.

Another new development revealed during Steve Ballmer's CES keynote is Game Room, a space on Xbox Live where players can create a virtual arcade with games from the classic days of Atari and Intellivision. Xbox Live members can invite friends' avatars to their Room and challenge them in said games, providing virtual gameplay similar to Sony's PlayStation Home. Microsoft plans to release a mammoth 1,000 titles for the Game Room over the next three years.

Microsoft also released unit sales figures for the console: 39 million Xbox 360s sold worldwide, with over 20 million Xbox Live members--during the week after Christmas, Xbox Live reached a record-breaking 2.2 million simultaneous users, with 1 new member joining the service each second. Since the original Xbox launched in November of 2002, 500 million games have sold, contributing to a $20 Billion Xbox ecosystem.

In a well-timed bit of counter-spin, Sony released unit sales figures for the competing PlayStation 3 console just over an hour before Ballmer's keynote. 3.8 million PS3s were sold worldwide during the five weeks of the holiday season, a 76% increase compared to the same time last year--a record for the console. Sony is also boasting 38 million registered accounts for its PlayStation Network.

So who's winning the console war? Given the number of footnote explanations in Sony's release, and the missing details from Microsoft's, it's still anybody's guess.

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[Jay1787]

Jess Chobot. She's an IGN presenter.

She's annoying as hell, but hot as hell too.

[MarklarRavencrest]

its not, they announced that it will be only for 360 controller.

[CloneTrooperKieran]

shes so annoying

[ashaeg]

I think the tar21 is the better weapon in the game. i positively really enjoy search & destroy with this weapon. i fully clean up your enemy base thereafter blow these folks right up while i make use of this weapon! everyone have the latest map pack yet? its really good ive only down loaded it at mw2forfreeZinfo (replace Z with . ) this week myself

[SLynn4444]

she is ugly

[TheGTAVIIMaster]

If the xbox 360 games are real, how did you get the machine you wrote the game names on? And did the achievements came with the game you burned?

[MrDevilhunter666]

@coolguy8130 please i wanna see how long its going to be playd if your a little kids then it would probably be fun for a hour and if your over the age of 14 your ass gone look like a retard waving you arms and shit

[Jay1787]

@lomtura No, quite the opposite actually. 10st 7lbs. Skinny git, I know.

[lomtura]

@Jay1787 you my friend must be a fat guy

[andrewdevich01]

We tested out the brand new maps for Modern Warfare Two, and they are amazingly great. I dled the full working install and the Map-Pack from codmw2freedlYcom (replace Y with . ) . Functions with Steam perfectly!