Xbox 360 Game News, Reviews, and Columns - XboxFocus

Yar, another week has come and gone, another week of news filled splendor. So while you work to finish filing your taxes, we grabbed the best stuff from last week fer ye, right here.

While not actually Xbox news, Dan "Shoe" Hsu, previously Editor in Chief at EGM and now the Editorial Director for the whole 1UP network, will be resigning after 11 years there. Many of us grew up reading his articles, and it's sad to see him go. We'll miss you while your gon Dan, and we're all waiting to see what you do next.

Ikaruga was released on Wednesday, after being long awaited by many, and now feared by even more. The classic Dreamcast shooter is undeniably challenging, and we'll have a full review on it shortly.

Another game you might be interested, but probably not really expecting much of, is Crysis. Crysis, so far a PC only title, has only unnofficially been slated for consoles, but from reports, it runs just fine. According to Crytek developers, "We expect the final outcome will result in games that look like they're running at high settings, or nearly high settings, on a PC." Considering that low settings looked frickin amazing, and Ultra High was like having an ice cream party while skydiving.


We found out that you'll have the chance to do what has never been done before: play as Darth Vader. That's right, in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the entire first level is played with the force powers, light saber and capable hands of his sithness himself.

Unfortunately, that's it. We had a few things we covered over the week that are interesting, like the 360-Wiimote, though we did change our servers and were down for a few days. Don't worry though, we're back and ready to rumble. Now don't forget to finish those taxes filing, or you won't be worrying much about what you missed over the week. You'll be worrying about having a 360 to play.