On Facebook, Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson changed his status to “Halo 3 Recon is no more…” Curious (and a little confused), I followed the link he posted to accompany it which led to his very brief new blog post. Looks like it is no more -– because it’s now Halo 3: ODST. According to Bungie’s post [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 18, 2008
If you've been messing around with the Netflix streaming in NXE, chances are you noticed two things: a new notes column on the queue page, and the sudden removal of dozens of movies. Eventually, everyone figured out that the vanishing movies had one thing in common: they were all distributed by Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 17, 2008
Over the weekend, Xbox Live went through a period of downtime and technical issues the likes of which had not been seen since last year's holidays. Was the downtime due to the high volume of online gamers crowding up Gears of War 2 or Call of Duty: World at War, or was it perhaps related [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
This week, Microsoft had an early gift for some modded consoles in their Xbox Live update: a nice, festive banning. According to Major Nelson, “Microsoft has taken action against a small percentage of Xbox 360 consoles that have been illegally modified in order to play pirated games.”
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 23, 2008
You hear me? It's goin' down. We're going to show that little so-and-so a thing or two. Oh, wait -- Microsoft beat us to it, and will be taking Xbox LIVE down personally. For only 24 hours, mind you. In a quick warning email from MS, we've been asked to pass along the word that [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 3, 2008
Aside from the occasional, unintentional leak, publicists basically control games journalism as we know it today. They can't tell us how to think or stop us from criticizing their games, but to a large degree, they determine who gets what and goes where when they please. How?
Continue reading...Thursday, April 24, 2008
Now, folks, when we spoke yesterday about that leak of GTA IV through various torrent sites, we neglected to mention that one of the main requests of the iCON group was that you not be so stupid as to play while your 360 is still connected to Live. Because that would be stupid. Someone might [...]
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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