At a recent event held in Delhi, Microsoft India revealed some very key information on the future of Xbox and the present. At the event they confirmed that the long rumored Xbox 360 Slim is actually real and that we should wait for an announcement sometime in December.

Source: GameCenter

The new version of the Xbox 360 was once rumored to be revealed in 2009, but know we now see that this rumor was actually wrong. Microsoft India has also officially announced its new Xbox 360 package deal for India, which is an 360 Core console, a 20 GB HDD, one wireless controller and free copies of Viva Pinata and Forza 2.

Mega Man 9 has arrived, the new NES-style title plucking the heartstrings of nostalgic gamers everywhere. How did it do in its first day on sale for WiiWare? Oh, pretty well.

Using Wii Shop Channel rankings from the top American Wii markets — US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia — along with historical sales data calculated from Nintendo Channel usage data, we can exclusively reveal to you today the sales for the first day for the hottest WiiWare title to date:

Day 1 sales for the Americas:

Mega Man 9 (WiiWare, Capcom, 1,000 points):  60,000

Yes, that’s right.  In one day Mega Man 9 outsold all but six WiiWare titles’ lifetime totals.  In one day it outsold Strong Bad Episode’s 1 lifetime sales from over a month.  For the full week it could surpass the lifetime sales of every WiiWare title — and most Virtual Console titles, as well.

Needless to say, this is a pretty successful debut.  We’ll bring you full week sales next week, look out for the first-day sales of the XBLA version when it launches next Wednesday.

The other titles released were Plattchen Twist ‘n’ Paint (WiiWare, Bplus, 1,000 points), Super Dodge Ball (NES, Aksys Games, 500 points), and Vectorman (Sega Genesis, Sega, 800 points), and none of them had enough first-day sales to crack the top 20 (less than 1,000, probably far less).

Stay tuned for the full weekly charts later this week!

Source: Vgchartz

Intel tells me that this is the climax of the movie where Master Chief is fighting to get Cortana off Reach. I think that’s “Foehammer” in the Pelican flying towards him.  I think it is safe to say the Spartans are totally screwed!

Stuart Beattie’s proposed movie script is based on Halo: The Fall of Reach, a 2001 science fiction novel by Eric Nylund based on the Halo series of video games and acts as a prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series.

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