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Xbox 360 information leaked?
Microsoft accidentally leaks details on GH4, Forza 3 and avatars for the Xbox 360.

Those crafty guys at Neogaf appear to have come across some information about games that haven't even been announced just yet. This information came from a marketing website, which featured some of the latest information on Activision and Microsoft's future titles.

First up, it seems like avatars will be coming to the Xbox 360. According to the image we've been shown, "Avatars are digital personas available this holiday for all Xbox Live connected members and this Spring [Autumn for us] for all new console owners. Avatars will be used in place of the gamer picture you have today and will give you a much more lifelike, animated and fully customisable persona for you to reflect who you are online".

First information was also revealed on Microsoft published games, Scene It? 2, Forza Motorsport 3 and Lips. The following is a direct quote describing Lips: "Lips is a music and singing game that includes 30 songs, 2 wireless interactive microphones, the ability to use and sing your own music or downloaded songs from an online service. Designed to have fun with friends, Lips scores you on your singing (pitch, rhythm, and tune) and overall performance. Wireless mics are interactive, with lights on the shaft of the microphone that pulse to the rhythm of your voice, and motion sensors that allow you to dance, move or swing to score points. Take songs from a CD or your iPod, and upload them into the game. The game will reduce the vocals so you can sing along and be heard, and score on whether you're in tune. Lyrics can also be added directly into the song to sing along."

Scene It? Pop Culture Edition will contain trivia questions about movie, music and pop culture. According to the website, Forza Motorsport 3 will be a 2 disk title, with 100 tracks and over 400 cars. The game will feature "near limitless customisation options for car tuning and custom artwork" and will feature several new race modes, such as drag, drift, oval and point-to-point racing.

In the leak, some new information was also released about Guitar Hero 4. Apparently the game will come with a new touch-sensitive guitar neck slide that opens up the "entire guitar neck for unbound solos". The leaked document also states that some of the artists that will feature in the game include Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Korn, System of a Down, Ozzy Osbourne, Interpol, Muse and "dozens more".

For more information on other Activision titles such as Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Spider-Man Vs Marvel Zombies and Transformers 2, head to Neogaf. It's worth noting that Microsoft and Activision have confirmed none of these details just yet. When, and if they do, we'll let you know.

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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=312708

I read all of this and yea, Microsoft isn't even trying at this point.  :ye_gods:

GH4 Guitar:

(http://i28.tinypic.com/2n7ld8l.jpg)

Buttons higher on the neck are touch sensitive!

If they weren't then they wouldn't be buttons.

This sentence doesn't parse. At all. What would they be? Boondogglers? What are you saying?

If [the buttons] weren't [touch sensitive] then they wouldn't be buttons.

Also: at the rate they are adding buttons we should expect a full fretboard by about Guitar Hero XII.

Guitar Hero XII already exists... it's called a guitar.  It has a full fretboard and infinite expansions (called songbooks and tab sites)

Perhaps "pressure sensitive" is the term we're looking for. Which is kind of stupid, given that guitar strings aren't really pressure sensitive. Yeah you can barely touch them to play harmonics but other than that they are pretty much pressed or not pressed.

I know, that was kind of the joke (the guitar keeps getting more complex at which point they might as well just use a real guitar).

http://www.fretlight.com/

Didn't some guys like Ronnie Montrose and others back in the fusion movement of the 80's have some guitar computer thing?  In that the strings weren't tuned, but by the force applied to the strings and how the frets were touched, could replicate all kinds of sounds?

Hey at least Guitar Hero has got my kid out of jazz and into rock finally

Two-disc racing game equals failure.

As long as they break it up like PD did with GT2 (arcade mode on 1 disc, career mode on the other), I won't complain too much about that, particularly if the rumored car/track counts are correct (and they bring back point to point races).

I suppose so, I'll just keep the "good" disc in the drive.  Or they might let me load shit to the hard drive.  As long as I don't have to swap... I probably should have said that instead.