SubscribeI stumbled upon GamerDNA the other day and thought the concept was pretty neat. Basically it works like Facebook but for the gaming community. One of the activities it uses to build DNA is adding games to a profile, so I took that opportunity to answer the unanswerable: What are my favorite games of all [...]
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What the hell is going on at Microsoft?
Bad news hit the Big Green twice after my last post on the subject. First, the famously outspoken Dennis Dyack and his company Silicon Knights has filed a breach of contract suit against Epic Games. The suit states:
Epic violated the Agreement with Silicon Knights by, among other things, [...]
UPDATE: Bad News Comes in Sixes
UPDATE: Apparently bad news doesn’t come in fives, they come in threes x 2. Kudos to 1UP for going forward with a story that started out as a potential gag on NeoGAF. The story involves “Da Man” Jeff Bell, Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing, Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft (let me repeat that for [...]
E3 2007: The Microsoft Press Event
After all the hoopla surrounding the death and rebirth of the Electronics Entertainment Expo, pulled from Heaven back to Hell on Earth like Buffy in Season 6 (had to put that Whedon reference there), it’s finally here. And after watching Microsoft’s press event last night, I’m betting there are some in Redmond who probably wished [...]
The Most Hated Man on My Blog
Bill Hunt, Editor for The Digital Bits, is at it again; spreading a wealth of misinformation and twisted truths to use his influence and end the HD format war:
And around the Net this morning, if any of you didn’t believe my recent Soapbox take on Microsoft’s real intentions in supporting HD-DVD, the company’s own spokesman [...]
Why the Elite is a Bad Idea
I just don’t get what Microsoft is trying to do with the Xbox 360 Elite. Sure, it has a bigger hard drive, and HDMI, and it’s black; but what does it really deliver to warrant an $80 premium over the, well, Premium pack?
HDMI
First, I want to make mention of the HDMI capabilities. It’s been confirmed [...]
Buh-Bye, Greg…
…and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Reported by Gamasutra, Greg Canessa has left his cozy confines at Microsoft so he can continue his legacy of overpromising and underdelivering at PopCap. One can only hope Xbox management realized how he ran one of the cornerstones of its online strategy near the point [...]
XBL Eating Crow
Yup, Heavy Weapon is worth your money. And with the recent announcement of the reduced-price Lumines Live! content packs to salvage that game from the hell of damning gamers, it appears as if XBLA management is eating crow on their earlier plans of profiting from the ill-informed.
You know what? It might just work – I’m [...]
Short Legs for Viva Pinata
Yesterday I was cleaning up my gaming room, and I did something pretty drastic – I put Viva Pinata back on the shelf. Since Christmas, I’ve been playing this one near-exclusively, with the exception of the random online and XBLA diversion. And even though I’ve had my complaints about the gameplay, I’ve always given it [...]
A Strange Thing Happened on the Way to the Marketplace
Yesterday I vented my frustrations regarding the Xbox Live Video Marketplace and the woefully inadequate hard drive, specifically around my experiences downloading Superman Returns in HD.
Well, in perusing the available content I noticed Superman Returns is no longer offered in HD, only SD. I don’t think this has as much to do with the size [...]
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- Every once in a while when I resume my iPod, it plays some random song instead of what I was listening to. Today: The Chipmunks.
- Engadget HD podcast on the new TiVo hasn't mentioned the subscription fee as a risk for adoption. Drop that, it'll sell tons.
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