Pallor cites an MSNBC article in bringing us news that the Xbox is going to have a V-chip. If you haven't heard of this by now, the V-chip is a means for parents (or very cruel friends or spouses) to block out content that they don't want you to see.
Wired News is running an article on just how fast the X-Box is expected to be. They're giving credit for its performance to two factors: the nVidia graphics chipset, and the memory architecture of the X-Box, where the main and graphics processors share main memory.
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I ran across an interesting quote tonight in PC Gamer's State of the PC Union address. The unidentified author talks about a number of issues, including the loss of great developers like Looking Glass and the intensifying PC vs. console debate.
First seen at MSXbox, Computer and Video Games has picked up some information on the Xbox's expected price from Microsoft UK.
Xbox will NOT cost $400US games sites are buzzing with speculation that the Xbox will debut at a $400 price point when it hits America at the end of the year. UK representatives of the company have told us this definitely isn’t the case.
Picked this tidbit up at Ars Technica, who report that Nvidia's XGPU and MCPX chips, the dual hearts of the XBox, are out of the lab and into fabrication. With some luck, this may mean that the demonstrations at Gamestock will be running on actual XBox hardware, or a development version thereof. And if not Gamestock, E3 looms larger every day...
Pythos posted in our forum about an interesting C.net article, which refers to another article at the Financial Times website.
As per two accounts at HBO, it sounds like Halo is currently not slated to be bundled with the X-Box. (With the reservation that this could change at any time) Microsoft demoed the X-Box at Michigan State University last night. Information collected includes APIs, hardware specs and various other information. There is a factor of ten difference in estimating how many X-Boxes Microsoft expects to be able to churn out per week, but otherwise the reports seem fairly informative.
Computer and Video Games is reporting today that John and Jane E3-Attendee will be able to get their hands on the X-Box, as well as some of the neater games promised for that platform, come this May.
