Costs More Than Actually Racing: VRX Makes The Ultimate Xbox 360 Driving Setup a Reality

"Remember the Ultimate Xbox 360 Racing Setup? VRX cuts all of that do-it-yourselfness out of the equation with their VRX Triple Screen Limited Edition 001. Here's what you get."

Four Xbox 360 Elites, four copies of Forza Motorsport 2 (you need a copy in each in order to enable multi-monitor support), an Xbox 360 HD DVD drive, Xbox 360 camera, Xbox 360 wireless headset, a Zune, the Xbox 360 Steering Wheel, three 37-inch Sharp Aquos 1080p LCDs, a 7-inch rear-view LCD, Bose Acousimass 10-series surround sound, Harmon Kardon surround sound receiver, vibration feedback systems, aluminum mountin bracks and various other racing seat/setup gear to make the system a standalone beast.

How much will this cost? Let's just say you probably can't afford it. Email them for details if you just won the lottery. – Jason Chen

Quebec City in PGR4? - Xboxyde

Our colleagues of HardGamers got from an undisclosed source these images of Project Gotham Racing 4, showing some tracks in the city of Quebec. Even if nothing has been officially announced it sure looks real. The city seems beautifully modeled, and even better it seems like it will be a lot of fun to drive in there. I was really disappointed by the cities chosen in PGR3, but this one certainly reminds me a lot of the awesome times I spent driving in PGR2's Edinburgh!

Quebec City in PGR4? - Xboxyde

Microsoft's E3 lineup leaked?

Rumor is flying around the internet that Microsoft's secret E3 lineup has been leaked. The news was posted over on the Wii60 forums and is a list of what Microsoft is supposedly going to be showing, info leaked by an E3 floor manager. Games include a new Crimson Skies sequel, Kameo 2 including a bunch of Rare games, a Gears of War 2 trailer, and Dead Rising 2. The rumor goes even further to say that Microsoft will also be announcing that Ninja Gaiden 2 will be a 360 exclusive, Metal Gear Solid will be headed to the Xbox, and that they purchased the rights to Star Wars Battlefront 3. Full list of rumored announcements posted after the break.

Not to be overly pessimistic, but we really feel this "leak" sounds kind of fishy and give it a 35% chance of actually being real. Do all these announcements sound probable? Heck yes. But we'll be cautious in getting our hopes up too much. Though, if it were all true, Microsoft would definitely get all the attention at E3.

Microsoft's E3 lineup leaked? - Xbox 360 Fanboy

Half-Life 2: The Orange Box ships in October

"Talking with a Valve representative, Shacknews was able to pry a firm release from their lips for a little box set known as Half-Life 2: The Orange Box. The game will hit retailers on October 9th, so we advise circling the date on your calendar with an orange marker so you don't forget. Orange marker, because it's the orange box ... get it? And to refresh your memory, The Orange Box is a bundle that will include Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal for the low, low, next gen price of $59.99. How we see it is that October will be all about carving pumpkins, eating candy corn, and playing a whole lot of Half-Life 2. Cavities be damned!"

LIVE Activity for week of 6/11

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (UU’s)
1 Gears of War
2 Forza Motorsport 2
3 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
4 Shadowrun Demo
5 Crackdown
6 Guitar Hero II
7 Tenchu Z Demo
8 Call Of Duty 3
9 Prince of Persia
10 Overlord Demo

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 Prince of Persia
2 Pac-Man C.E.
3 UNO
4 Aegis Wing
5 Hexic HD
6 Geometry Wars Evolved
7 Mad Tracks
8 Texas Hold 'em
9 Worms
10 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures

Original Xbox Top Live Games
1 Halo 2
2 Battlefield 2: MC
3 Counter-Strike
4 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
5 Call of Duty 3
6 Madden NFL 07
7 Rainbow Six 3 BA
8 Forza Motorsport
9 FIFA 07
10 Splinter Cell Chaos

Xbox Live's Major Nelson : LIVE Activity for week of 6/11

U.S. Video Marketplace top downloads for week of 6/11

"Top 10 Weekly Movie
1 Code Name: The Cleaner
2 Team America, World Police (HD)
3 Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
4 Blood Diamond (HD)
5 Flags of Our Fathers (HD)
6 Happily N'Ever After (HD)
7 Jackass Number Two
8 The Departed (HD)
9 The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (Unrated)
10 Poison Ivy 2

Top 10 Weekly TV Titles
1 South Park (HD)
2 Comedy Central Stand Up
3 CRISS ANGEL MINDFREAK
4 Chappelle's Show: Uncensored
5 Robot Chicken
6 Enterprise (HD)
7 Babylon 5
8 Aqua Teen Hunger Force
9 Fights (HD)
10 Taboo"

Rockstar confirms GTA IV downloadable content is Xbox 360 exclusive

A spokesperson for Take Two Interactive Software, Inc (parent company of Rockstar Games) has today confirmed that downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV will be exclusive to Xbox 360. The representative said: "The Grand Theft Auto IV episodic content is exclusive to Xbox 360."



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Viva Piñata - why no one bought the best game of 2006

Viva Piñata's charmingly rendered online safety message, it's dual control (so a parent can help out a struggling youngster via a second pad), its colourful and characterful creatures - all seemed to be in place to ensure its success as Microsoft's trailblazing high definition kid-friendly Trojan horse.



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"Wii is as powerful as original Xbox," says FIFA producer

"It's about as powerful as the original Xbox," he said. "The video hardware unfortunately is not as powerful. There's just a couple of key things that you can do on Xbox like shaders which you just cannot do on the Wii... Overall t



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