Today was Microsoft's press conference at their XBOX event X06 which is taking place in Barcelona, Spain this year. Lots of big news. Click here for entire press release. Here are the highlights:

- Ensemble Studios is working on the Xbox 360 RTS Halo Wars. (Official site now up @ http://www.halowars.com. It has a full CG trailer.)

- The Splinter Cell game after Double Agent will be console exclusive to the Xbox 360.

- Following the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the Xbox 360 will receive two exclusive downloadable episodes.

- Project Gotham Racing 4 is in the works.

- The HD-DVD player for the Xbox 360 will be released in North America, the U.K, France and Germany this November for $199/e199.

- Rare is working on a new Banjo-Kazooie game.

- Peter Jackson is going to work on a new Halo game (not Halo 3) and an unannounced game for Microsoft Studios with his new game company Wingnut Interactive.

- DOOM is coming to Xbox Live Arcade today, with co-op support.

You can check out the game demonstration videos at http://www.gametrailers.com/. If you have any links for videos, screenshots, whatever you would like to share then please post them here.

XBOX 360 and Microsoft are really on fire lately! Let us know what you think about today's news.

Forgot to post this earlier...

WinArcadia/AmiArcadia 2.0 released

 

These emulate the Emerson Arcadia 2001 family of consoles (Bandai, Emerson, Grandstand, Hanimex, Intervision, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, MPT-03, Ormatu, Palladium, Poppy, Robdajet, Rowtron, Tele-Fever, Tempest, Tryom, Tunix, etc.).

 

Features include: load/save snapshots, windowed and full-screen modes, trainer, drag and drop support, graphics scaling, automatic load/save of configuration, joystick support, BIOS image not needed, autofire, warp mode, raster-based emulation, gameplay recording/playback, PAL/NTSC modes, demultiplexing, autosave, narrow mode, help window, real-time CPU/UVI/RAM monitor, flag line emulation toggle, debugger.

 

Versions for Windows and Amiga have been released. WinArcadia is considered by NonMESS as the best EA2001 emulator available.

 

Requires (Amiga version): OS3.5+.

Requires (Windows version): Windows 9x/NT/ME/2000/XP.

 

Changes since 1.63:

* Debugger.

* Flag line emulation toggle.

* Improved UVI emulation.

* Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes

>> Get it HERE

26/09/06 - ScummVM DS v0.9.1beta2 Released for Testing

 

Another beta, hopefully this time with less bugs.

 

Beta 2:

 

* Max Media Dock Support

* Fix to Zip file reader

* Replaced SCSD driver with original version

* Readded MP3 support

>> Get it HERE.

SDLMAME 0.109

 

Now available [14.2 MB].

 

* Up to date with mainline 0.109 (see whatsnew.txt for details)

* Fixed Win32 builds using pure stock mamedev.org MinGW setups (RB)

* Added support for generic PowerPC builds (TkChris)

* Support on Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X for the new “trap to system debugger” functionality (RB)

SDLMAME

MAME32qa

MAMEplus! (includes HazeMD 0.11a)

MAME32FX

WolfMAME

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