News, Xbox Live Marketplace

A zappy Zapper is officially an Xbox Original originally appeared on Xbox 360 Fanboy on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Behold, fanboys, it's the New Xbox Experience introduction video that you'll be viewing on your own Xbox 360 this Wednesday when the NXE makes its official debut. The video is full of trippy and spectacular visuals (triptacular), a melting logo, some racing, intense tree climbing, a few musical things and a whirly wind of rainbow excitement. It's the NXE, it's exciting and it's an introduction video to the most newest xboxiest experience ... everest? Yeah, we'll admit, the trippy visuals have officially altered our state of mind.

New Xbox Experience intro video is triptacular originally appeared on Xbox 360 Fanboy on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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News, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Call of Duty: World at War

• Lips bundle (€209.99): Spain, Italy, the Nordics, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Russia, South Africa, Belgium, Greece, Czech Republic, Portugal and Ireland
• Call of Duty: World at War bundle (€269.99): Spain, Italy, the Nordics, the Netherlands, Hungary, Switzerland, Russia, Greece, Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal and Ireland
• Tomb Raider: Underworld bundle (€269.99): UK, France and Germany

Source - Lips bundle
Source - Call of Duty: World at War bundle
Source - Tomb Raider: Underworld bundle

New 360 bundles hit Europe November 21 originally appeared on Xbox 360 Fanboy on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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News, Gears of War 2

After hearing the community's complaints and general negative feedback regarding the long wait times experienced during Gears of War 2 matchmaking, Epic's Rod Fergusson addressed the issues over on the official Epic forums. Sadly, there is no hard fix in place.

Fergusson wants the Gears community to know that the long wait times experienced in matchmaking are limited in scale (riiiiiight) and that Epic is working with Microsoft to speed things up. While they figure out the mess, we're given a few tips to improve the matchmaking experience, including: restart the search, avoid 1 and 4 person parties, and (our favorite) skip the whole matchmaking mess and host custom games. With a frown on our face, we await a Gears of War 2 patch ...

Epic addresses Gears of War 2 matchmaking hiccups, still no fix originally appeared on Xbox 360 Fanboy on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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News, Gears of War 2

The nine screenshots (galleried below) show what look to be a multiplayer map that is surrounded by gorgeous yellow imulsion. And from what we can tell, the screens seem legit and one could easily speculate we'll be receiving some multiplayer map DLC in the near future. Then again, if you didn't expect Gears 2 DLC, you'd be one silly Locust Wretch.

News, Peripherals

"It's not something we can do, obviously [the games would require a patch]. I mean, I hope so for Rock Band, Guitar Hero. It won't work out of the box but it's relatively easy to kind of get it going."

So, the light up Lips microphone and its compatibility with other musical titles lies in both Harmonix and Activision's hands. They'd have to release patches for their games which we think they totally should. Everyone pretty much agrees that the wireless Lips microphones are teh sexy and teh awesomez.

Lips microphone won't work with other games originally appeared on Xbox 360 Fanboy on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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