X06,Wolverine Microsoft’s gaming conference, is serving as the platform for a ton of announcements. Here are some items that caught my eye:

  • Cryptic, developer of City of Heroes/Villains, and Marvel announced that they’re teaming up to do Marvel Online. This is amusing given that Marvel was, until recently, suing Cryptic for facilitating copyright infringement.
  • Peter Jackson has teamed up with Microsoft to work on two games. One is going to be set in the Halo universe (though not as part of the Halo trilogy) and one will be an original creation by Jackson’s in-development new interactive studio, Wingnut Interactive.
  • Guitar Hero II is confirmed for the 360. Everybody knew this already anyway, of course, but woot! Of course, this means I’ll have to buy the game twice, as the 360 version looks to be launching after the PS2 version. It’s also apparently not a port. It’s been re-written for the 360. Downloadable content ahoy! If they put a good selection of songs up for download, I know that I, among many others, will end up spending more money downloading songs than the game itself originally cost. God, I cannot wait. Earth Eternal is going to have to do without me on Guitar Hero II release day.
  • The original Doom is on Xbox Live Arcade, with 2-4 player co-op mode and everything! I will be buying this.