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Why Didn’t They Think of That – BitTorrent on 360

As I was getting constantly bumped from the Marketplace and XBL Arcade servers yesterday, I thought of a brilliant idea that Microsoft needs to adopt – not just for E3 content, but if they want to deliver any substantial content in the near future. That idea is BitTorrent. How difficult would it be to implement [...]

E3 2006 – Gee, Thanks Microsoft

So as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Marketplace blitz, they will be providing tons of new content throughout the week in the form of themes, pictures, demos and trailers. And taking a look at Major Nelson’s blog today, it sure looks like this has already started. The problem is, it’s a free week for Xbox [...]

E3 2006 Speculation – Are Xbox Live Gold Subscribers Suckers?

I’ve been seeing a lot of deals lately on Xbox Live subscription cards and kits. I myself jumped on the $30 13-month subscription card from ToysRUs.com just a few weeks ago. But after recent news from Sony and the build-up into this year’s E3, that $30 doesn’t seem like such a good deal after all. [...]

Why Didn’t They Think of That – Massively Multiplayer

I’m pressed for time but I’ve had some ideas floating around my head lately, and I wanted to capture them, at least in digest form, before they disappear. The biggest disappointment of the “new” generation of gaming? The lack of expanded multiplayer capacity. Battlefield II only 24 players? Call of Duty only 8? What the [...]

Next-Gen Console Predictions

I was listening to a podcast this morning on the way to work, when I had an epiphany. It became clear to me that Nintendo knows exactly what they are doing with the Revolution, and that it will succeed in the next-generation race. As a matter of fact, it will be Microsoft’s main rival in [...]