About the Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the next generation sibling of the Xbox which was released on November 15th, 2001 by Microsoft. The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on May 12th, 2005 on MTV. There was detailed game and launch information announced later in the month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly referred to as E3. The Xbox 360 was the first contender in the battle between the 7th generation console video game systems, which now include the Nintendo Wii and the Playstation 3.
Development
The Xbox 360 as we know it today was known as many different names during development. Such names include Xenon, Xbox 2, Xbox Next, and NextBox. The Xbox 360 originated in early 2003 and in February ’03, J Allard, Microsofts Vice President, headed the planning of the Xenon software platform. On August 12, 2003 ATI, a visual processor unit manufacturing company, signed on to produce the graphic processing unit. The next month IBM signed on to produce the Triple-Core CPU.
Launch
On March 14, 2005 promotion for the Xbox 360 began with the opening of an alternate reality game called OurColony. Throughout the months of March and April OurColony gave various challenges to its community and would reward solutions to the challenges with cropped pictures of the Xbox360 and game screenshots. OurColony ended on May 12, 2005 along with the release of a video of J. Allard showing off the new console system. The official disclosure of the Xbox 360 happened on the same day on MTV in a show titled MTV Presents: The Next Generation Xbox Revealed. In October of 2005 another alternate reality game was created. This game was called Hex168 and was used to promote the system before launch. The Xbox 360 was released on November 22, 2005 in the U.S. and Canada and December 10 of the same year in Japan. There were many other later releases in other areas of the world.
Complete List of Xbox 360 Games
- 1XR
- 2006 FIFA World Cup
- 2 Days to Vegas
- 360 Mahjong
- 6GUN II
- A-Train X
- Alan Wake
- Alone in the Dark: Near Death Investigation
- Amped 3
- APB
- Armored Core 4
- Army of Two
- Avalon
- Banjo Threeie
- Battle Angel
- Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
- Beowulf
- Bioshock
- Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
- Blue Dragon
- Bomberman: Act Zero
- Born Without a Face
- Broken Saints
- Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway
- Bullet Witch
- Burnout Revenge
- Call of Duty 2
- Call of Duty 3
- Cars
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Castle Wolfenstein (port working title)
- CellFactor
- Chromehounds
- Cipher Complex
- The Club
- CodeType-D
- College Hoops 2K6
- Condemned: Criminal Origins
- The Conveni X
- Crackdown
- Cry Havoc
- Cry On
- Culdcept Saga
- Dance Dance Revolution Universe
- The Darkness
- Dark Sector
- Data-Fly
- Dead or Alive 4
- Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2
- Dead or Alive: Code Chronos
- Dead Rising
- Def Jam 3 (working title)
- Demonik
- The Dimitri Project
- Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires
- Dirty Harry (working title)
- Dog Tag
- Untitled Dragon ball Z project
- Enchanted Arms
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- Elveon
- Earth Defense Force X
- Every Party
- Fable 2 (working title)
- Far Cry Instincts: Predator
- Far East of Eden Ziria
- F.E.A.R.
- F.E.A.R. 2 (working title)
- FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup
- Fight Night: Round 3
- Final Fantasy XI
- Football Manager 2006
- Football Manager 2007
- Forza Motorsport 2 (working title)
- Frontlines: Fuel of War
- Full Auto
- Fuzion Frenzy 2
- Gears of War
- The Godfather: The Game
- Golden Axe
- Grand Raid Offroad
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- GTR
- Guitar Hero 3
- GUN
- Gundam
- Half-Life 2
- Halo 3
- Haze
- Heavy Rain
- Hellboy
- Hitman: Blood Money
- House of the dead 4
- Huxley
- Interstellar Marines
- Untitled Indiana Jones Game
- Import Tuner Challenge (Shutokou Battle X) aka Tokyo Xtreme Racer
- Jade Empire 2 (unnanounced)
- Just Cause
- Kameo: Elements of Power
- Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
- Killing Day
- Killer Instinct 360
- King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2
- Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom
- Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
- The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II
- Lost Odyssey
- Lost Planet
- Love Football
- Madden NFL 06
- Madden NFL 07
- Magna Carta 2
- Major League Baseball 2K6
- Marvel MMORPG (working title)
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
- Mass Effect
- Medal of Honor: Airborne
- Metronome
- Mobile Ops: The One Year War
- Monster Madness
- MotoGP 2006: Ultimate Racing Technology
- Naruto (working title)
- NBA 2K6
- NBA Live 06
- NCAA Football 07
- NHL 07
- NHL 2K6
- NHL 2K7
- Need for Speed: Carbon
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted
- Neo Geo Battle Coliseum
- Nine Dragons
- Ninety-Nine Nights
- Ninja Gaiden 2 (Working Title)
- Untitled Team Ninja project (codenamed: Project Progressive)
- Notcom Racing
- The Outfit
- Outsider, The
- Onechan Bara X
- Open Season
- Operation Darkness
- Over G Fighters
- Perfect Dark Zero
- Perfect Dark Remix (Working Title)
- Peter Jackson’s King Kong
- Phantasy Star Universe
- Possession
- Precursers
- Prey
- Pro Baseball Spirits
- Project Assassins
- Project Delta
- Project Embrace
- Project Gotham Racing 3
- Project Progressive
- Project Sylpheed
- Psychopath
- Quake 4
- Rayman Raving Rabbids
- Resident Evil 5
- Ridge Racer 6
- Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis
- Rumble Roses XX
- Saints Row
- Samurai Warriors 2
- Scarface: The World is Yours
- Secret Service
- Sega Rally Revo
- Senko no Ronde rev.X
- The Shadow of Aten
- Shadowrun
- Shutokou Battle
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Soul Calibur IV
- Spider-Man 3
- Stranglehold
- Stuntman 2
- Sundown
- Superman Returns
- Spawn 2: The Official Game
- Super Robot Wars
- Tenchu 360 (working title)
- Tengai Makyo Ziria: Yurakanaru Jipang
- Test Drive Unlimited
- Theseis
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06
- TimeShift
- TNA iMPACT!
- Tokyo Extreme Racer
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas
- Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent
- Tomb Raider: Legend
- Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland
- Tony Hawk’s Project 8
- Too Human Trilogy
- Top Spin 2
- Transformers
- Trusty Bell: Chopin’s Dream
- Turok
- Two Worlds
- Untitled Square Enix RPG
- Untitled MMORPG
- Untitled John McTiernan Game
- Unreal Tournament 2007
- Vampire’s Rain
- Versus Tactical Action
- Viva PiÃ’ata
- Voodoo Nights
- Virtua Fighter X (working title)
- Virtua Tennis 3
- War Devil
- Way of the Samurai Online (working title)
- Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007
- World Championship Poker: Featuring Howard Lederer “All In”
- World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions
- Wrestle Kingdom
- WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007
- X-Men: The Official Game
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- Zegapain XOR
- Zoids Infinity EX Neo
- Zoo Keeper