New Xbox Codename Might be ‘Durango’

The next-generation Xbox may be codenamed “Durango.”

Crytek senior technical designer Sean Tracy wrote the following message on Twitter: “Enjoying the Durango developers summit in London. So far, great swag and interesting talks.” Tracy deleted the tweet soon after it went live.

Keep in mind that Durango likely wouldn’t be the final name of the project, similar to the Wii U’s Project Cafe codename.

Previously, the successor to the Xbox 360 has been largely referred to as Xbox 720, though that codename has never officially been sanctioned by Microsoft. Rumors last year also suggested that the system was codenamed “Loop.”

For now, Microsoft hasn’t made any announcements about its next console, and all codenames are only a rumor.

Source: Eurogamer,IGN

Final Fantasy VII Remake?

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, Square Enix producer/artist Tetsuya Nomura, Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada and Metal Gear art director Yoji Shinkawa had dinner earlier today.

What did they talk about?

According to Kojima, they talked about a Final Fantasy VII remake! After Kojima Tweeted that he was in a dinner meeting with the three, a follower asked that he tell Nomura to remake FFVII. “I passed it along,” replied Kojima.

He was probably joking. Or was he?

Other things Kojima said he passed along are “Hurry up and release Kingdom Hearts 3D,” “I know it’s tough for Square Enix, but you can do it!” and “Tell Wada I’m waiting for Seiken Densetsu/Secret of Mana 5.” Kojima did not pass along the message “I’m looking forward to the new Zelda game” that someone for some reason asked him to mention.

Kojima passed along one message without his followers’ suggestion: he told Tetsuya Nomura to get a Twitter account.

While the actual topics of conversation during the meeting are probably secret (they may have just been having a friendly dinner — it happens sometimes), we do know what was on the menu. According to Yoichi Wada’s Twitter, two people had cola while two people had alcohol.

Source: 1

Sony Suing Geoshot & Fail0verflow

“As of 1/11/2011 7:20 PM EST, I have been served with papers, see below…

Motion For TRO
Proposed Order

old front page, with relevant info removed, is here

contact me geohot … gmail”

From Fail0verflow’s Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/fail0…
“Looks like Sony decided to ignore the facts and sue us all for it. See http://geohot.com/”

From Hector Martin’s Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/marca…
“Ah, so Sony decided to sue everyone under US law. Guess I won’t be visiting the US in a while…”

From Muscle Nerd’s Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/Muscl…
“EFF has done a fantastic job keeping iPhone jailbreaks (not piracy!) legal..hope they can do the same with this PS3 news” (PS3, Sony)

UpdateUPDATE- Charges include

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(2)(C) – Confidential Information On Computer

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(4) – Intent To Defraud And Obtain Value

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A) – Knowing Transmission of Code

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(B) and (C) – Intentional and Reckless Damage And Loss

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(6)(A) – Trafficking in Password

18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(7)(B) – Intent to Extort