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2 unusual facts about Xbox


Home Tonight

"Home Tonight" is one of the two theme songs performed by Aerosmith used in the video game Dead or Alive 3 for the Xbox created by Team Ninja.

Tusken Raiders

In the Xbox Original game Star Wars: Battlefront II players are allowed to play as Tusken Raiders in a special game mode called "hunt".


A Song of Ass and Fire

When Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates learns of this, he has Ballmer murdered in order to ensure that the Xbox wins the console wars.

Anna Molly

The song is included in the music rhythm game Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS, and is also included on the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii edition of Shaun White Snowboarding.

Army Men: Major Malfunction

Army Men: Major Malfunction is a game in the Army Men franchise released by Global Star Software in 2006 for Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles.

Atomic Planet Entertainment

Titles in development at this time included Jackie Chan Adventures on PS2 for Sony Europe, Miami Vice on PS2, Xbox and PC for Davilex, The Guy Game on PS2 for Take 2 Interactive, Gametrak: Dark Wind for In2Games, and the Mega Man Anniversary Collection on PS2, GameCube and Xbox.

Blair Herter

During the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Blair co-anchored Microsoft's nightly Xbox @ E3 Live streaming event coverage on Xbox Live with former G4 personalities Morgan Webb and Kevin Pereira.

Brandon DiCamillo

Additionally, DiCamillo has also provided voice overs for the Xbox Live Arcade game Trials HD and its sequel Trials Evolution.

Cameltry

A version of the game is also available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC, as part of the Taito Legends 2 collection, and for the PlayStation Portable, as part of the Taito Legends Power-Up collection with the remake version was included in the latter.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

A first person shooter video game Metro 2033, developed by 4A Games and published by THQ was released worldwide in March 2010 for PC and Xbox 360 platforms.

Eric Trautmann

In 1999 he became a content developer for Microsoft’s Franchise Development Group, where he wrote and edited story bibles for a variety of Xbox and PC game properties, including MechWarrior 4: Vengeance, Allegiance, Crimson Skies, and Halo.

Ex Box Boys

The band was previously known as The Xbox Boys, until the band ran into legal troubles with Microsoft.

Free60

On the Xbox 360, one such exploit exists, relying on and utilizing a modified DVD-ROM drive firmware, a modified burnt disc of the game King Kong (for Xbox 360), and the target console having either one of two vulnerable Kernel revisions.

Game Boy Advance Video

Unlike Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox video game consoles, the Nintendo GameCube cannot output Macrovision gain-control copy distortion signals.

Gamertag Radio

GTR has had the opportunity to interview many of the biggest names in the Xbox community such as Peter Moore (Head of EA Sports Gaming), Cliff Bleszinski (Lead designer of Gears of Wars), the staff of TeamXbox.com, Major Nelson (the Director of Programming for Xbox Live) and many others.

Gamestation

The chain mainly focused on the sixth & seventh generation of consoles: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, as well as the PC and previous generations of consoles (such as PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance).

HB Studios

In August 2011 the company released their first self funded full console title - Rugby World Cup 2011 (video game) - on PS3 and Xbox 360 with 505 Games as the publisher.

Kikizo

Video Games Daily is home to over 300 interviews with high profile video game industry executives; as of July 2011 it remains the only consumer gaming site in the world to have interviewed all three console platforms' top-level bosses: Satoru Iwata - President of Nintendo Co., Ltd, Kaz Hirai - President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc and Robbie Bach - Chief Xbox Officer, Microsoft.

King Games

Recently, it was revealed that future game(s) will be released for the Xbox 360 to advertise the Xbox 360's Kinect.

Light in Darkness

The song has received many positive reviews and became the main menu song on NASCAR The Game: Inside Line for Xbox, PlayStation and Wii.

Major Nelson

Larry Hryb, nicknamed Major Nelson, director of Programming for Xbox Live

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is a fighting game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, DS, and PSP, which ties into the "Marvel Nemesis" comic book series.

ME2

Mass Effect 2, a video game released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in 2010, and for PlayStation 3 in 2011

MechAssault

Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot gave the game a rating of 9.0, indicating that "If you're going to buy one game with your Xbox Live starter kit, MechAssault is the one to get."

Metro Riots

Their song "Modern Romance" is featured heavily in the 2006 video game Urban Chaos: Riot Response for Xbox and PlayStation 2.

MotoGP 2

MotoGP 2 (also known as MotoGP 2: Ultimate Racing Technology) is a Grand Prix motorcycle racing video game developed by Climax Brighton for the Xbox and personal computer.

One Man's Terrorist

It was also used in the popular Xbox 360 trailer for Gears of War.

Park City Mountain Resort

Park City is also one of the featured mountains in the video game Shaun White Snowboarding for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

PDZ

Perfect Dark Zero, a video game released for the Xbox 360 in 2005

Play, The Videogames World

Displayed on 1300 square meters, it showed over 300 videogames starting from the 1961 Space War to the latest hits for PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.

Podtacular

Other members from the Xbox and Halo communities also attended as guests on the show, including: Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) from Xbox, Matt Hullum from Rooster Teeth Productions, Alexander Winn and Ryan Luther from The Codex, Damian and Fyb3roptik from This Spartan Life, KP from Bungie, and many more.

Redbox

In April 2005, Redbox phased out the DVDPlay-manufactured machines and contracted Solectron—a subsidiary of Flextronics, which also manufactures the Zune, Xbox and Xbox 360—to create and manufacture a custom kiosk design.

Septembre

The band has the single "I Am Weightless" featured in the video game Need For Speed Underground 2 for PS2, Xbox and PC versions.

Shaun Murray

Shaun Murray is a four-time World champion wakeboarder, and the main character featured in Activision's video game "Wakeboarding Unleashed" (Working title Shaun Murray's Pro Wakeboarder) in 2002, which was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Game Boy Advance.

Softmod

Softmods for Xbox used to include a font exploit installed through exploits in savegame code for MechAssault, Splinter Cell, and 007: Agent Under Fire.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

Not long after Sonic 4 was officially announced, rumors surfaced that the game was available to members of the Xbox 360's online game testing service for developers, PartnerNet.

Suburban Knights

"Suburban Knights" also features in the soundtrack of Turn 10's Xbox 360 racing game, Forza Motorsport 3.

SunBurn XNA Game Engine

It can produce games and 3D graphical simulations for Windows, Xbox, and Windows Phone 7 (WP7).

Sunrise Adams

Adams appeared on the cover of the Xbox and PlayStation 2 game, Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood, portraying herself, and was a spokeswoman for Pony Sports.

Tao Feng

Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus, a fighting game released for the Xbox console

Tap out

UFC: Tapout, a series of fight simulation video games for the Xbox

The Idolmaster

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon as well as the Ridge Racer series on PlayStaion 3, PlayStation Vita and Xbox 360 also include DLC for The Idolmaster series.

Tina Wood

Tina was the Show Production Executive Producer for Microsoft's nightly "Xbox @ E3 Live" 2013 streaming coverage on Xbox Live, which reunited her with former G4 personalities Kevin Pereira and Morgan Webb.

Transworld Snowboarding

In 2002, Atari/Infogrames released a video game for the Xbox console under the name Transworld Snowboarding developed by Housemarque.

Walter Dorwin Teague

The privately held, Seattle-based company is most commonly recognized today for its work in consumer electronics and aviation, with clients such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Panasonic, and Boeing, and projects such as the Xbox and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

XBMC4Xbox

XBMC4Xbox has a "My Programs" section which functions as a replacement dashboard to launch Xbox games (retail and homebrew) and applications/emulator directly off the Xbox built-in harddrive, all from a GUI with thumbnail and list options.

Xbox modding

Within a few months of its release the initial layer of security on the Xbox BIOS (which relied heavily on obfuscation) was broken by MIT student Andrew Huang and the contents of the "hidden" boot ROM embedded on the MCPx chip was extracted using some custom built hardware.

Xbox One

Subsequent to the announcement of Xbox One, but prior to Microsoft's policy reversal, U.S. Representatives Mike Capuano and Walter Jones proposed and filed the We Are Watching You Act; the act would require "video service operators" to inform users on how personal data is collected and used, require that users explicitly opt-in to data collection, provide an on-screen notification when data is being collected, and to provide identical service for those who opt-out.


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