Microsoft has announced that a new Xbox 360 bundle will launch on October 24^th. It contains a 60GB console and copy of Pro Evolution Soccer 2009.

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Well, according to Microsoft it does. The Tokyo Game Show this weekend has been a hotbed of Microsoft employee quotables, stats releases and game announcements on how well the Xbox 360 is doing over there. Here they all are in one easily digestible package:

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Here we go again. Despite persistent rumours about Microsoft releasing a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, or integrating the format into the console itself, the firm has declared yet again that it has no plans to do any such thing.

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Fallout 3, Bethesda Softworks’ reimagining of the brilliant Fallout series, is still weeks away from launching. That hasn’t stopped the pirates though. Dodgy copies of the game, which can be played on modified Xbox 360 consoles, are already spreading like wildfire on Bit Torrent websites.

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After a last minute decision, no new Halo title was announced at E3 earlier this year. Instead Microsoft saved it for its TGS keynote. It’s not just an ordinary sequel either; it’s a Halo 3 spin-off, and it is expected to land in Fall 2009.

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Microsoft has proved the internet rumour-mill correct and officially announced that the New Xbox Experience (NXE) will go live on November 19^th.

NXE is the latest Xbox 360 Dashboard overhaul and the most ambitious so far. Apart from a major visual overhaul, the update will add new player Avatars, a Friends channel and an option to install games to the hard drive for faster load times.

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Wow, it must have been months since the last time an external Blu-ray drive for Xbox 360 was rumoured! Fortunately X-bit labs has stepped in to reignite speculation and even comes citing ‘market sources’ to back up its claims.

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Fable 2 creator and legendary game designer, Peter Molyneux, has made the unusual step of asking game reviewers for favours. Early review copies of the game are being sent out ahead of the launch later in the month and include a letter from Molyneux asking reviewers to see it from a non-gamer’s perspective.

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