XBox 360 games update: Perfect Dark Zero, Castle Wolfenstein

Seth Schiesel of the New York Times reports from Amsterdam on some of the new games to be released starting next month for the XBox 360, Microsoft's gaming console. Perfect Dark Zero, an FPS which Microsoft has reportedly had under development for five years, was one of the games being demoed, but not everyone at the press event was impressed.

More interesting was this news from Id Software, makers of the Doom, Quake, and Castle Wolfenstein series:

Id announced here that it was not only making a new installment of its Castle Wolfenstein series for the 360, but was also creating much of the game with the 360's software-creation tools rather than with more traditional tools used to make games for PC's. Id has been associated with PC gaming rather than with game consoles that plug into a television, like the Xbox and the PlayStation 2 from Sony.

News about the new Castle Wolfenstein game aside, an Id developer admitted that the development tools for the XBox 360 were better than what the company has used in the past for PC games.