COD4 Online Beta coming

After an extemely impressive demo of Call of Duty 4, Infinity Ward announced that an exclusive Xbox 360 LIVE multiplayer beta for the game would be coming soon.

The website http://www.charlieoscardelta.com will provide the details, although the current volume of folks hitting the site seem to be overwhelming their servers.

Disney Classics coming to Xbox LIVE Video Marketplace

Disney hits like The Emporer’s New Grove, Winnie the Pooh, Armegedon, The Waterboy and more are now available as well as a large lineup of the best that Disney has to offer.

Additionally, Canada and Europe will soon be joining the U.S. as consumers in Video Marketplace as  Microsoft will finally be opening the market outside of our borders.

EA Sports titles to run twice as fast

Jeff Bell has announced that the entire lineup of EA Sports titles offered up this year for Xbox 360 will run “twice as fast” as previous titles. After touting EA as being the first to bring sports games to HD, Jeff promised that this year’s offerings would look and play even better.

Reggie Bush joined Jeff onstage for a live example featuring Madden NFL 08 (which did look mighty impressive).

Mass Effect will hit stores in November

Peter Moore just announced moments ago at the Microsoft Press conference at E3 that the long awaited Mass Effect will be released in time for the holidays this November.

Even I had begun to believe all the rumors that had this one not coming until 2008.

Sierra reveals upcoming Xbox LIVE Arcade titles

Sierra has released details on three of their upcoming Xbox LIVE Arcade titles: Switchball, Commanders: Attack! and Battlestar Galactica.

Switchball puts a spin on the traditional marble-roller by way of the changing characteristics of the ball. From a standard Marbleball, to a feather-light Airball, an electric-charged Powerball and the heavyweight Metalball, all offer different strengths and weakness while maneuvering across the narrow suspended courses. Scheduled to hit XBLA in late summer.

Commanders: Attack! is a 1930’s-themed turn-based tactical game where players can choose to take on the computer AI in the 15 missions that make up its single-player campaign or battle up to 3 friends locally or online in one of the four multiplayer modes: Versus, Team Play, Player vs. CPU or same-system Skirmish. Debuts this fall.

Battlestar Galactica is a top-down space combat game which will feature up to 8-player online battles in addition to the single-player campaign. The game will also feature memorable missions from the televisions series, the ability to play as human or Cylon, 8 ships and full 3D graphics. Expect to see this one in fall also.

Oh baby, talk to me…

While we’re all waiting for the new Forza 2 DLC, I thought I’d throw my two cents in on what I would love to see added to the game; text to speech.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who has crashed mightily when trying to take a peak at my split-time or other stats that pop up during a race. I really love the game but trying to read the in-game statistics can be a frustrating and downright dangerous process.

For some reason, Turn 10 did not consult me before designing the update (which comes as a big surprise to me ) but I’m not sure if a feature like that could be added through a patch.

Maybe I should just hire a navigator…

Don’t go away mad…just go away!

Why won’t Paris Hilton just go away??