We count down the year's biggest moments and look ahead to 2010.

On Sunday, November 22, 2009, the Xbox 360 will officially turn four years old in the first region it was released in, the United States. It's with many great memories under our belt that we wish the Xbox 360 a happy birthday and well wishes in the coming year towards making it to the half-decade mark.
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Microsoft’s internal Halo studio, 343 Industries, is working a new Halo game.

And not just another Halo game, a Halo game for the “next generation Xbox platform” — hopefully Microsoft doesn’t consider a Natal-enabled Xbox 360 to be a next-gen platform.

To quote: A job listing on Gamasutra.com reveals that a level designer with at least one AAA game under their...

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Today MCVUK.com (linked above) is reporting that XBox 360 Project Natal launch details have leaked from a Microsoft Tour of UK publishers and studios.

According to the leaked information, the controller-free XBox 360 camera will be released worldwide in November, 2010 with five million units to ship for launch day.

To quote: Microsoft is planning to manufacture...

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Sony's upcoming PlayStation Motion Controller may be codenamed 'sphere' according to JoyStiq (linked above).

Currently both Microsoft and Sony don't have official names for their motion projects, although Microsoft has dubbed their technology as 'Project Natal'.

To quote: "One name Sony may be using with developers is "Sphere," a word that highlights the...

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An executive at Electronic Arts has stated that he expects to see a PlayStation 3.5 before the PlayStation 4 console's arrival.

Additionally, he expects the next version of the Xbox 360 to go 'half way' as well at Xbox 560 versus 720.

To quote: Rich Hilleman, Chief Creative Officer at EA, said: “I expect we’ll see a PlayStation 3.5 before we see a PlayStation 4, and...

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Blizzard design boss Rob Pardo claims XBox 360 motion-sensing unit Project Natal might not be the wonder-box Microsoft would have us believe.

To quote: “I’ve got to play with Natal a little bit, and it seems like the difficulty with it is still spatial recognition with moving your hands and doing things,” said the exec, speaking at a StarCraft II single-player event in...

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According to XBoxEvolved (linked above), graphics programmer Ryan Geiss may have unveiled the new XBox 360 rumored to be coming along with its name.

To quote: Graphics programmer Ryan Geiss posted a news blog on his Web site where he states:

"I can finally disclose that I'm one of the core developers of the human-tracking algorithms for Project Natal, bringing full-body motion...

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A leaked video appeared to indicate that Golf is coming to Microsoft's XBox 360 console with avatars.

Everything looks fairly early in development with limited sound and very simple textures.

The gameplay seems to be similar to Hot Shots Golf, with no hint of Natal interaction or Tiger Woods flicking.

To quote: Being that Nintendo's Wii Sports is...

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Gears of War 2 designer Cliff Bleszinski has shed some light on the single-player/co-op campaign element of the upcoming Dark Corners expansion, revealing that it's a 90-minute section that sees Marcus and Dom play dress-up.

To quote: "It's a 90-minute section that was actually snipped out of Gears of War 2, where Marcus and Dom are actually going to the Locust homeworld and they're...

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Interviewed by trade magazine MCV, head of Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer has stated that Project Natal will have games to play at launch on the Xbox 360.

To quote: "I see it as like the launch of the Xbox 360 back in 2005 - there will be a launch portfolio of games to support it," he said.

Plenty of developers now have access to Natal kits and we've already seen...

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