NHL 07 'Shootout' Demo Now Available

Recently relased onto the Xbox Live Marketplace was a short demo for upcoming game NHL 07. The demo shows off the new shooting system, at least for shootouts. I can honestly say i enjoyed this demo, i have never been a fan of hockey games and the last time i played must have been a long time ago on a friends gamecube, nevertheless, i wasn't impressed. I am however impressed with the demo, the visuals are good and the gameplay is easy to pick up and seems to have some depth to it. Check it out, weighing in a 500MB it shouldn't take too long.

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Bioshock Exclusive Interview

The folks over at GameSpy managed to score an exclusive interview with one of the main men behind Irrational's Bioshock. It really quite a long interview and Ken Levine has a lot to say and you can see he has really involved himself with the game, and emphasizes, it's all about the atmosphere. Check it out, awesome read.

Daily Whats On Marketplace (Update 1)

As promised, kinda sorta, here are the latest items which are available for you to download via XBL Marketplace. Free unless otherwise stated.

The Godfather - a new trailer.
FarCry Instincts: Predator - multiplayer demo featuring all multiplayer modes.
Just Cause - Several new trailers showing different aspects of the game, be it, 'Weapon Upgrades' or 'Sea Stunts'.
LOTR, BFMEII - a 'marketplace exclusive' multiplayer map pack. 350MP
Madden NFL 07 - a demo for those of you who haven't downloaded it.
UNO - A Project Gotham Racing 3 Card deck - 100MP

IGN Insider - Gear of wars video podcast type thing, not that great footage wise, but does show some new gameplay.
IGN Insider - Insider Studio Tour: Ubisoft, being a big fan of Ubisoft, i would highly recommend this download to everyone, it is a really good behind the scenes look at Ubisofts largest development studio, montreal, and shows how things work, shows off there own gym and coffee bar (!!) and is generally very interesting.
Artist of the month - This week the ''artist of the month award™'' goes to...Jessica Simpson, currently the only video available is her smash pop hit, A Public Affair, featuring a few guest appearances from what i would imagine some of her showbiz friends.

I know some of these things have been released for more than a day, but i wanted to put them in to make up for lost ground and to inform those people who hadn't had a chance to download some of these items.

UPDATE: added items in the 'Media and Entertainment' section.

Mass Effect Officially 2007

Possibly my most anticipated titles scheduled to hit 2006 was Mass Effect, a first person RPG (FPRPG?) developed by Bioware, critically acclaimed in the game industry for producing games such as the KOTOR series on the original Xbox. The company has now officially confirmed that the game won't be ready before christmas, or even the new year. They were nice enough to give out a European released date to boot. January 12th, mark that in your calender! If you live in europe that is, i'm sure the US version will be released soon after if not the same day. Mind you, it'll DEFINATELY be out in europe before the PS3...(for shame, but how could i resist!?)

Thanks to IGN for this...and you can also check out media and impressions on the game so far at their page for Mass Effect.

Rainbox Six and Splinter Cell Media

Today Ubisoft kindly released a series of images from their, quite brilliant looking, upcoming Xbox360 games, Rainbow Six: Vegas and Splinter Cell: Double Agent. These games are both shaping up to be some must have titles this winter, and these pictures both show that Ubisoft is really putting to good use the power of the 360. More pictures below, click to enlarge, and below all of that, links to the original articles from the people over at gameinfowire.

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Rainbow Six: Vegas







Rainbow Six Article and the Splinter Cell Article

Apologies for the lack of posts...

For those of you who have been regularly checking back on 360insight, or hell, those of you lucky enough to have subscribed to the RSS feed, you will have noticed that i haven't posted for a week, this is because i have been holiday-ing in sunny wales - see pic. I'm now back to my usual schedule and i intend to have daily updates of content released on marketplace, so anyone interested in that be sure to check back daily to see if its actually worth trawling through all those marketplace menus for new content. Thanks for those who keep coming back, it'll be much more regular from now on!