alright i haven't posted in my journal since august 5th like 2 weeks but i've been on the forums every day so i'm gonna start doin a weekly update and what better day than the day new music and DVD's come out (TUESDAYS)

In The News

• Microsoft owns the rights to the iPod (awesome and ironic article, available HERE)
• Xbox 360 looks like its NOT going to have a HDD (heartbreaking article, available HERE)

Halo 2 Union

• First union to hit 2300 members this week awww yeh!
• Plans for a new banner and new union signatures are under way and myself and the officers hope to have them finished as soon as possible.
• Climbing back up the top ten with 7th likely by the week's end.
  

New Movies Out Today

• SIN CITY - omfg cannot wait to get this movie later today i mean god its sin city what more is there to say
• Dave Chapelle: For What It's Worth - well its a f*ckin tragedy that the chapelle show is no more, you can still see him perform stand up live at The Fillmore.........whatever that is

Music Under The Radar

• British Whale - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us (although a long title definitely get this song its made up of justin hawkins from the darkness so if you like them you'll love this)
• HIM - Wings Of A Butterfly (the true owners of the heartagram have a new single out wings of a butterfly and i love it check it out and watch for the new album in stores in september)
• Negative - In My Heaven (Finnish rockers Negative join fellow countrymen HIM on this week's under the radar with their single released earlier in the year in germany however it is in english so don't worry)

please comment on my weekly update idea personally i like it and its good to be forming sentences again after a summer of sleep deprivation!!

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The Xbox 360

Team Xbox, Xbox 360 Coverage and www.gamespot.com (locations of unabridged articles)

HARDWARE

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU

• 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
• 2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total
• 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total
• 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
• 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance

• 9 billion dot product operations per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor

• 500 MHz
• 10 MB embedded DRAM
• 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines
• Unified shader architecture

Polygon Performance

• 500 million triangles per second

Pixel Fill Rate

• 16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA

Shader Performance

• 48 billion shader operations per second

Memory

• 512 MB GDDR3 RAM
• 700 MHz DDR
• Unified memory architecture

Memory Bandwidth

• 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
• 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
• 21.6 GB/s front-side bus

Overall System Floating-Point Performance

• 1 TFLOP

Storage

• Detachable and upgradeable 20 GB hard drive
• 12X dual-layer DVD-ROM
• Memory unit support starting at 64 MB

I/O

• Support for up to 4 wireless game controllers
• 3 USB 2.0 ports
• 2 memory unit slots

Optimized for Online

• Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, Gamer Profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music
• Built in Ethernet Port
• Wi-Fi Ready: 802.11 A, B and G
• Video Camera Ready

Digital Media Support

• Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
• Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows XP PCs
• Rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive
• Custom playlists in every game
• Windows Media Center Extender built in
• Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers

HD Game Support

• All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
• Standard definition and high definition video output supported

already posted this on the Halo 2 union but for those who aren't in the union here it is

SOFTWARE

article here (http://www.gamespot.com/features/6124293/p-4.html) theres tons of great inormation

Alan Wake

The maker of the Max Payne series will be bringing this game to the Xbox 360. The screenshots and first trailer show a quiet, eerily idyllic setting in a heavily forested area near the coast.

Developer: Mistwalker
Publisher: n/a

Blue Dragon

Hironobu Sakaguchi and other ex-Square developers are hard at work on a role-playing game for the Xbox 360. Character design will be done by noted illustrator Akira Toriyama. The two previously collaborated on the classic SNES RPG Chrono Trigger, which bodes well for Blue Dragon.

Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision

Call of Duty 2

It hasn't been officially announced on the Xbox 360, but sharp-eyed GameSpot editors spied this World War II shooter at the taping of the Xbox 360 premiere event. The PC version of the game will follow the storylines of four different soldiers, as well as offer squad-based combat.

Developer: Monolith
Publisher: Sega

Condemned

This survival horror game from Sega and Monolith will follow Ethan Thomas, an FBI agent in the Serial Crimes Unit (SCU), which is a team of G-men dedicated to tracking down serial killers, Clarice Starling-style. While playing as Thomas, gamers must navigate "urban environments filled with deadly sociopaths who lurk on the periphery of humanity," according to Sega. Sign us up.

Developer: Digital Extremes
Publisher: n/a

Dark Sector

Dark corridors abound in early media of Dark Sector

This first-person sci-fi action game is being developed by the same folks that brought you Unreal Championship and Unreal Tournament 2003. The first trailer shows a stealthy alien skulking his way through the halls of a human base or ship.

Developer: Starbreeze Studios.
Publisher: Majesco Games

The Darkness

The developer of the surprise hit, The Chronicles of Riddick, are hard at work on a new action game, which is adapted from a comic book of the same name. Players will take the role of a Mafia hitman named Jackie Estacado who is possessed by strange, mystical powers. Developer: Terminal Reality
Publisher: Majesco Games

Demonik

Noted horror author Clive Barker teams up with the makers of Bloodrayne to produce this game, which will be based on a horror movie. If the storyline is as compelling as Undying, Barker's last foray into games, then Xbox 360 players should be in for a treat.

Developer: Bethesda Softworks
Publisher: 2K Games

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The creator of the monstrously epic Daggerfall and Morrowind role-playing games will bring the next iteration in the Elder Scrolls series, Oblivion, to the Xbox 360. The game promises to offer the same open-ended style of gameplay and story advancement as its predecessors.

Developer: Sega
Publisher: Sega

Gears of War

Probably the most impressive-looking of the first batch of titles revealed for the Xbox 360, Epic Games' Gears of War looks like it's going to be a hard-hitting sci-fi-themed tactical shooter. Featuring a behind-the-back, third-person perspective and an impressive level of detail in the characters and environments, Gears of War has blockbuster sci-fi hit written all over it. We wonder how it'll actually play, though.

Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft

Ghost Recon 3

If the previous games in the series are any indication, players will lead a team of highly trained and heavily armed special forces units through intense tactical battles in Ubisoft's upcoming shooter.

Developer: Rare, Ltd.
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios

Kameo: Elements of Power

Originally slated for release on the Xbox, Rare's platformer will instead debut on the Xbox 360. The titular heroine of the game has the ability to magically transform into different monsters, giving her specialized powers to fight off the evil trolls that have invaded her land.

Developer: EA Tiburon
Publisher: EA Sports

Madden NFL 06

This isn't actual in-game footage, but Michael Strahan still looks scary.

An action-packed trailer for the next-generation of Madden NFL games aired on ESPN during the NFL Draft a few weeks ago. The videos and screenshots taken from that trailer are not actual in-game footage, but they should give us a good idea of what to expect from the game as far as camera angles, special effects, and graphical fidelity go.

Developer: Visual Concepts
Publisher: 2K Sports

NBA 2K6

Stunningly realistic visuals demonstrate set our expectations high for the next installment in Visual Concepts' acclaimed basketball series, coming to the Xbox 360.

Developer: Electronic Arts
Publisher: Electronic Arts

Need for Speed Most Wanted

EA's hugely successful street racing series is coming to the Xbox 360, complete with some high-speed, dangerous police chases this time around.

Developer: Rare, Ltd.
Publisher: MS Game Studios

Perfect Dark Zero

Perfect Dark Zero is the sequel to the classic Rare shooter from the Nintendo64. Details on the game were spilled by a clan of female professional gamers, whose members revealed that the game would include spy gadgets and jetpack-like devices.

Developer: MS Game Studios
Publisher: Bizarre Creations

Project Gotham Racing 3

The beloved Xbox racing franchise is officially headed to the Xbox 360. Kudos to whoever made that decision. We can't wait to see how it turns out.

Developer: Raven Software
Publisher: Activision

Quake 4

Like Call of Duty 2, Quake 4 hasn't been specifically announced for the Xbox 360 yet. But the Raven-developed sequel to id Software's classic shooter series was spotted in trailer form at the taping of MTV's Xbox 360 premiere show.

Developer: THQ
Publisher: THQ

We're almost frightened to think about how realistic Tiger Woods is going to look in the first Xbox 360 installment in his highly acclaimed golf sim series.

Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Publisher: Eidos Interactive

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

American Wasteland will set the Tony Hawk series in one gigantic Los Angeles, free from loading times. The game will also feature BMX biking and online play via Xbox Live.

We've waited years for this, now its here and i'm impressed.
-Danny M

THANKS TO www.teamxbox.com and our union hosts www.gamespot.com for the articles and video link and their up to the minute work