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Well its taken a while to find a source for the footage to this demo, but I finally found it today.  The images below are taken from the demo in realtime, sadly the quality of the footage is not the best and is obviously cam footage.

Above is a selection of images from the demo, but if you want to see more images and the footage for yourself then head over to Xboxyde.com website.

ATI has done it again and showed of The Assassin demo to more gaming news sites and all are saying this proves we have not even touched on the Xox 360 power.

Check the full interesting article here at ComputerAndVideoGame.com.

Microsoft have now licensed the ability to allow backwards compatibility from Nvidia whihc will allow the original Xbox games to run on the Xbox 360.

The idea is to apparently emulate the original Xbox' Intel CPU on one of the Xbox 360 multiple IBM PowerPC cores. Due to this licensing deal with Nvidia, the graphics will now be able to emulate the NVIDIA chip to some extent on the ATI graphics chip in the Xbox 360.

The emulation for orignal Xbox games will be done through emulation profiles which a number of will ship with the Xbox 360 already installed on its hard drive.  Other games profles can then be downloaded fro Free from the Xbox Live service.  however, no mention has been made for those owners who do not have an Xbox Live account and dont want one.

Head over to the full article at GamesIndustry.biz

Well if you are like myself and been wondering whether the KillZone 2 incredible game footage at E3 was in fact a realtime demo on the PS3 or just a clever pre-rendered game demo, I found the answer - at last.

In an interview with Killzone PS3 designer, Jan-Bart Van Beek at ps3.ign.com he answers a few questions about the demo, the machine and most importantly was the demo real.  The quote to the question and answers is:

Is the Killzone sequence a fair example of what people can expect from realtime gameplay on PlayStation 3?
Jan-Bart: Yeah, it's basically a representation of the look and feel of the game we're trying to make.

Well there you have it, not a decisive yes its a pre-rendered demo or yes its running on PS3 hardware.  What Sony have now done by the demo and this interview by the games designers is state to the gaming world this is what the PS3 is capable of - I hope for their sake the can make it happen!