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New Consoles Coming; “Innovation” May Follow
New hardware may be game changer for video game sector: This is a fairly non-descript article about the current state of gaming consoles and the introduction of next-gen consoles this year. But it included this bit, which bothers me a little: Today, the Xbox 360 is entering its eighth year on the market, while the [...]
Curt Schilling and the Saga of 38 Studios
End Game: I never even knew this happened: Red Sox legend Curt Schilling tried to create a MMORPG. It was a six-year disaster and hurt a lot of people and took a lot of taxpayer money down with it. Successful MMOs are incredibly lucrative, but they’re also the hardest type of game to build. You’re [...]
The Curse of Being Connected
Happiness Takes (a little) Magic: I really enjoyed this reflective post on how technology and dehumanize us. Brian writes about how he’s backing away from most online media, which is suspect is how a social media backlash will eventually start. I owe my livelihood to technology and I love the raw capability it offers us [...]
No One Buys “Call of Duty” for the Campaigns
So, my son got the new Call of Duty game over the weekend, and he’s been playing it like crazy. However, here’s an observation – I’d be interested in what percentage of people buying the game are buying it for the campaign. I’d say it’s pretty small. Neither my son, not any of his friends [...]
Foxconn
Foxconn: Just because their name is on it, doesn’t mean they actually make it. In fact, it’s likely they don’t make it – Foxconn does. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer retailers Dell, Inc. and [...]
All About Data Centers
The Architecture Issue – Data Center Overload: Article about the massive data centers that we all use and know exist, but never see. They’re around, and they’re flippin’ huge it turns out. The Tukwila data center happens to be one of the global homes of Microsoft’s Xbox Live: within those humming machines exists my imagined [...]
Real Live Game Show on X-Box Live
First look: 1 vs. 100 brings a live game show to Xbox Live: This sounds very neat. It’s drifting into…enhanced TV, or something? It’s an attempt to take a live event and let people interact in real time from their living rooms. Microsoft is trying something new by hosting real, live, game-show-like content on Xbox [...]
Duke Nukem For…never
Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Shuts Down: Duke Nukem Forever will never be released…[sigh] A very reliable source close to Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms today confirmed to Shacknews that the development studio has shut down. This page has a great history of the saga. So there you have it folks, show’s over after [...]
NetFlix Will Stream to the XBox 360
NetFlix Xbox: Netflix Streaming On Xbox 360: This is a fantastic idea. Instead of trying to capture the market with their own device, NetFlix is going to springboard off the 16 million 360s that have been sold. Xbox 360 owners who are also Netflix subscribers will be able to stream movies available for online streaming [...]
Your Console Sucks Electricity
Power Bills Soaring? Turn Off The Playstation – Study: This looks like a job for Kill-a-Watt. The recent study by Choice said Sony Corp’s Playstation 3, closely followed by Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and plasma television sets, consumed the most power out of a list of 16 electronic devices tested, including laptops, stereo systems and DVD [...]