Xbox Fan Boy

Xbox News, From a Biased Point of View

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    Welcome to XboxFanBoy.co.uk! Thats right, pr0nking.net has came into conjunction, and is now a dedicated Xbox site! All the old news, forum and images are gone. I decided to do this, because I wanted to start a fresh. I hope you enjoy the new updates, and will give us more of a dedicated view, rather than people complaining we're a gaming site that covers xbox news! Thanks for visiting!.

Archive for the ‘News’ Category

August 4, 2008

News Posters Needed!

Thats right. We’re still in need of News Posters, due to me not being able to udpate the site every day it’d be nice to have someone help contribute. I can’t pay obviously, but being able to broadcast your oppinion and journalistic ability should be reward enough right? Well, if you’d like to apply for the position, then please send me an email with the following information:

  • Name
  • Age
  • MSN / ICQ / AIM
  • Location
  • Previous writing OR example of writing with adequate spelling and grammar.

Thats it! So, if your interested then give me an email! Thanks

July 20, 2008

Sorry!

There was some down time, and I apologise. It was pretty much for the whole weekend, but we’re back! There has been some interesting development in the Xbox camp, in North America. You can get gears of war, UT3 for $299! Pretty good deal, and I think when i’m in america I may buy myself a cheap Xbox and get it modded, I dont know yet. They’ve brought down the price and started shifting shelf space for a 60gb model, and trying to bring xbox game installation to make load times alot quicker. Sounds interesting, but we’ll see.

July 16, 2008

E3 News PT2

Bungie, no show at E3?

Well, if you visit the Bungie.net website, you’re confronted by a popup message, which reads:

“For the last several months, we’ve been building toward a reveal of something exciting that Bungie is working on. We were looking forward to sharing that with our fan community during the week of E3. However, those plans were just changed by our publisher.

We realize that many of our fans are disappointed by this turn of events; members of the Bungie team share that disappointment.

When the right time comes, we look forward to sharing this exciting announcement with you. Until then, we appreciate your continued support and patience.

Harold Ryan
President
Bungie LLC”

Which basically adds a bit of drama to the situation, rumors around the internet say that they’re undergoing a new Halo game, one of which could be a prequel, or one set inside the Halo world, but not actually part of the Halo triology franchise. Microsoft recently said in an interview with MTV Multiplayer, and let slip that a new Halo was in the works, watch this space, as any news comes, I will let you know.

Guitar Hero World Tour - More Details!

So, they have announced a few new things. Things which have been announced are:

  • Previous Guitars will be compatible, although the functionality of some of the new guitars won’t be included. Like the tone changing buttons at the end of the guitar.
  • The drum kit is touch sensitive, hit it hard, it sounds louder, hit it quiet, it sounds quiet. It also meant to be fully wireless and to be really robust.
  • The microphone is wired, to reduce latency, and it is meant to be very robust as well, seems like the GH crew have designed their equpiment to last.
  • The drums have inputs galore: two standard input ports on the back (so you can plug in two kick drums if you want), plus a MIDI input, so you can run your Groovebox or similar piece of kit through the game’s music studio software. Future-proof? Check.
  • Travis Barker, the drummer from +44 (and former Blink 182 drummer) was an advisor in the design and feel of the drum kit. He will be a playable character in the game, as will Hayley Williams, the singer from Paramour.

Source: IGN

Marvel Alliance 2 Characters Announced:

Activision have announced that 24 characters have been confirmed, Venom, Green Goblin, Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America and Wolverine (in an old classic costume) are confirmed. Aswell as Iron Man and the Invinsible Woman

Call of Duty: World at war:

Jack Bauer has lended his voice to the new CoD game. New additions to the gameplay included bazookas, flame tanks and flamethrowers, which offer massive destructive potential at the risk of equally massive danger to your character – it’s like walking around with a bomb strapped to your back.

The game will also feature a co-op mode, supporting four players online or two players locally via split screen. The co-op mode will keep track of each player’s individual statistics and scores, adding an element of competitiveness to the action.

CoD: World At War is due to hit the shores in November.

July 13, 2008

News Posters

I’m looking for people to help me write up news, as its hard being a one band man, I know its only started, but it’d be nice to to have some people to share the load and maybe make the news updates a bit more frequent. Plus it saves me having to trawl the interweb looking for news, when I can get people to help! So help with the site, and you never know, something revolutionary may come of it!

Send me an email with the following information:

  • Name
  • Age
  • Previous References, or example of writing if any
  • Why you should be a news poster

Email me here

July 12, 2008

Welcome!

Thats right. We’ve changed! The URL, and the site is all new! pr0nking.net still exists, but now we have a new domain, XboxFanBoy.co.uk! So, the old news is gone, the old images, videos and forum are all gone. But, its all in the process of getting setup. It’ll be beautiful!

Thanks for your patience,

pr0nking