Happy 5th Birthday Xbox Live!
Xbox Live Turns 5 Today. To Celebrate Microsoft sent me a swanky little pack of swag! Also, if you want to read a great article about the 5 year experience, check out Ozymandias’s blog.
15 Nov
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14 Aug
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The $150 Million Dollar Debut of Halo 3
Microsoft is setting its sites high for Halo 3, shooting to have a $155 million dollar debut of the game. To put some perspective on it, Halo 2 launched with over 2 million copies sold in 24 hours for around $125 million. While one would think the 155 Million dollar number might be a little [...]
8 Aug
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Xbox 360 to have HDMI Standard
According to ArsTechnia journalist, Ben Kuchera, there’s a strong indication that all Xbox 360′s will begin to have the HDMI port standard. The rumor goes back to E3 where Microsoft announced their special edition Halo Xbox 360 unit. The unit was a traditional premium model with a Halo paintjob and an HDMI port. The rumor [...]
19 Jul
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27,200 Microsoft Points
27,200 Microsoft Points. That’s how many I’ve purchased since 11/29/2006. So doing some math at 80 points per dollar that comes out to be… $340. I do have 43 purchased Live Arcade games. So that’s not bad. $340 isn’t even 6 “regular” games. Plus I’ve purchased a few songs and albums through the Zune Store [...]
7 Jun
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E3: The Big 3 Press Events
I’ve decided to start my behind the scenes E3 coverage today with some news. As you may or may not know I’ll be attending the brand new E3 Business and Media Summit this year representing Evil Avatar.com. The ironic thing of this is the exclusive nature of the event this year, being invite only. While [...]
31 May
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The Satisfaction of Multiplayer Games: Halo 3 and Design Decisions
The term gamer has become cool in the last couple of years. So much in fact that sites like MTV and NewsWeek have dedicated columns and writers used to bring gaming information to the general masses. Stephen Totilo of MTV and N’Gai Croal of NewsWeek have decided to do an email exchange of sorts discussing [...]
18 May
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Fixing Windows Vista x64 DRM Crap
As you recently saw I was lucky enough to get a Zune from Microsoft. Huzzah! But…I wasn’t lucky enough to have a working Zune Marketplace. This had something to do with some corrupt DRM files or some such. No idea how this happened. I tried following the Microsoft Knowledge Base article, but something didn’t quite [...]
17 May
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Halo 3 Zune Impressions
I know…this blog looks like it’s turning into the Halo blog. But damn…can you blame me? I arrived home yesterday to find a nice surprise on my doorstep, one of those new swanky Halo 3 Zunes. The packaging is all decked out Halo style, and the Zune itself is packed nicely in it’s little box. [...]
14 May
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Microsoft, Halo and Marketing Synergies
Synergy is one of those buzz words I was never fond of. In fact, at my previous place of employment, it was thrown around more than a midget at a cannon factory. But today, I’m going to use the word, as it’s simply the best word I can think of as to Microsoft and their [...]
13 Apr
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Shifting Trends: Microsoft and a series of Errors
Times are changing, trends are shifting, and fanboys are crying. For Microsoft, things are starting to take a turn for the worst. With recent announcements like the XBox 360 Elite with a larger hard drive, a product consumers have been begging for for quite some time, one would think all would be well in the [...]