Video Game Industry Thread: Caring entirely too much about Bioware romance options

Warlock82

So it's official, Hollywood has run out of old 80s cartoons to ruin.

In before live action Ducktales.

Brainiac 8

Warlock82 wrote: »

So it's official, Hollywood has run out of old 80s cartoons to ruin.

In before live action Ducktales.

Believe!

Imagine, this with a top hat and monicle!

Sheep

I love Cheryl Hines.


So the MS Disc Format screwed up a few peoples consoles. So MS gave them a free year of live and a brand new Xbox Slim.

Magic Pink

Whoah.

joystiq wrote:

Microsoft has confirmed that some Xbox 360 consoles won't be happy with the upcoming, mandatory firmware update. The console manufacturer will replace consoles that become unable to read retail game discs -- once anti-piracy measures are enabled -- with a new Xbox 360 S with 250 GB hard drive.
"Following a recent update to our system software, we have become aware of an issue that is preventing a very small number of Xbox 360 owners from playing retail game discs," a Microsoft statement provided to Eurogamer reads. "This issue manifests itself a as a unique 'disc unreadable' or 'disc unsupported' error on the screen. We are also able to detect this issue over Xbox Live and are proactively reaching out to customers that may be impacted to replace their console."

The firmware update implements new anti-piracy measures (along with a 1GB bump in disc storage capacity) that apparently don't play nice with certain DVD drives. Given that the Xbox 360 has had several revisions to its guts over the years, this is the reason why only certain models will be affected.

We've contacted Microsoft to find out what North American consumers should do if their console is incompatible with the update. European consumers have been told to go to Microsoft's general support page.

Dang, I hope I'm one of them.

Warlock82

Magic Pink wrote: »

Whoah.

joystiq wrote:

Microsoft has confirmed that some Xbox 360 consoles won't be happy with the upcoming, mandatory firmware update. The console manufacturer will replace consoles that become unable to read retail game discs -- once anti-piracy measures are enabled -- with a new Xbox 360 S with 250 GB hard drive.

"Following a recent update to our system software, we have become aware of an issue that is preventing a very small number of Xbox 360 owners from playing retail game discs," a Microsoft statement provided to Eurogamer reads. "This issue manifests itself a as a unique 'disc unreadable' or 'disc unsupported' error on the screen. We are also able to detect this issue over Xbox Live and are proactively reaching out to customers that may be impacted to replace their console."

The firmware update implements new anti-piracy measures (along with a 1GB bump in disc storage capacity) that apparently don't play nice with certain DVD drives. Given that the Xbox 360 has had several revisions to its guts over the years, this is the reason why only certain models will be affected.

We've contacted Microsoft to find out what North American consumers should do if their console is incompatible with the update. European consumers have been told to go to Microsoft's general support page.

I wonder what models are affected by that (hint hint - I want a free Slim )

mere_immortal

Hmmm, my 360 is pretty old.

Pleasepleaseplease.

Warlock82

I'm wondering what about the older models makes them incompatible. Older firmware on the disk drive maybe? You'd think system updates would update that. *shrug*

Sheep

I wonder if it's either all or nothing? I've had trouble playing Brink and Bad Company 2 lately. Sometimes the 360 thinks they're regular DVDs. Not always, though.

urahonky

I do know that I cannot play Mass Effect 1 because I get that error message all the time.

lowlylowlycook

I saw a commercial for a movie that I'm pretty sure is an adaption of Rockem Sockem Robots.

Shadowfire

Magic Pink wrote: »

Whoah.

joystiq wrote:

Microsoft has confirmed that some Xbox 360 consoles won't be happy with the upcoming, mandatory firmware update. The console manufacturer will replace consoles that become unable to read retail game discs -- once anti-piracy measures are enabled -- with a new Xbox 360 S with 250 GB hard drive.
"Following a recent update to our system software, we have become aware of an issue that is preventing a very small number of Xbox 360 owners from playing retail game discs," a Microsoft statement provided to Eurogamer reads. "This issue manifests itself a as a unique 'disc unreadable' or 'disc unsupported' error on the screen. We are also able to detect this issue over Xbox Live and are proactively reaching out to customers that may be impacted to replace their console."

The firmware update implements new anti-piracy measures (along with a 1GB bump in disc storage capacity) that apparently don't play nice with certain DVD drives. Given that the Xbox 360 has had several revisions to its guts over the years, this is the reason why only certain models will be affected.

We've contacted Microsoft to find out what North American consumers should do if their console is incompatible with the update. European consumers have been told to go to Microsoft's general support page.

Dang, I hope I'm one of them.

My face plates won't fit on an S though!

cloudeagle

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

I saw a commercial for a movie that I'm pretty sure is an adaption of Rockem Sockem Robots.

You did. It's called Real Steel, has Hugh Jackman in it, and will either be horrible or hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei5l3r1dV4I

At any rate, new thread.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=19292174#post19292174