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This is the speech in mp3 and the speech in AAC/M4B (for iTunes/iPod).

Save as...didn't work for me. Just click it:
http://msxb.wmod.llnwd.net/a274/o2/ourcolony/TheCo lony_v1_750k.wmv

Personally, I did not see anything telling about the video. Firstly, while they do show some games being played, it does not show the 360 running them at all. No one in the video says they are running on the 360 either. Granted, one would suspect that they would only show game clips from actual 360 games, but perhaps the games they showed will have 360 versions of them available at launch. I don't know how popular that other game mentioned in the article is, but Halo 2 is/was a huge success for the Xbox. It would make perfect sense for it to be available on 360 in some format. (Either via backwards compatibility or just a 360-specific version.)

Furthermore, the Fable icon doesn't tell me anything either. Look at the ending credits and you'll see "Fable 2". The Fable icon on the 360 UI is the only place I saw any reference to Fable or anything that remotely looked like a Fable-related game. Therefore, I would deduce not that the 360 is backwards compatible, but rather that Fable 2 will be available on XBox 360.

I'm not saying that the 360 won't be backwards compatible (I hope it is) but this video does not imply what the article states.

http://msxb.wmod.llnwd.net/a274/o2/ourcolony/TheCo lony_v1_750k.wmv

Streaming video of those xbox360 guys showing the new box.

So... Let's just be honest here, the MTV special had far too much Elijah Wood and Pimp My XBox, and way too little J Allard (whose gamertag, as it turns out, is Hiro Protagonist), XBox 360, or the team that built the XBox 360. OurColony concluded an hour before the XBox special aired on MTV, and the final reward was a video featuring the XBox team talking about the 360 (including one guy wearing a Penny Arcade t-shirt).

Here be the link: http://msxb.wmod.llnwd.net/a274/o2/ourcolony/TheCo lony_v1_750k.wmv

Just open, let WMP open the file and stream it (if you try to download the file, it's only 120kB or something, it has to be streamed).

Have fun.

(Spoilers: Confirms name, confirms the 3 core thing, confirms look, confirms controller look, confirms remote control look, shows some cool stuff on the GUI, and is pretty much hype after that)

BTW the ram file contains this:
http://abcrad.vo.llnwd.net/o1/kgo/kgo-09.mp3/

Which made me glad since I don't use real player :)

JD

I think you should see this if you think that Japanese games don't appeal to you.
Note that there is a lot of violence too. It's a Nintendo-only game, and it's nearly Doom3-ish quality.

If you haven't seen it you will be pleasantly surprised.

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