Archive for April, 2008

My super negative knee jerk review - Maybe I play too much cod4 on my 360. Maybe I’ve been out of the PC shooter game too long. All I know is I went into my STALKER experience last weekend with high hopes and a sense...

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…but a snobby developer that pays attention to the quality of their product can’t be ignored in this day and age of waiting for a Mass Effect title update that probably won’t come. For those of you that aren’t aware, Criterion pushed out their Bogart...

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I’ll make this a quick post; CNET has an article regarding a recent visit to Redmond by a gentleman from PocketNow, and his experiences with Windows Mobile 7.  Of particular note is the (admittedly older) link to the leaked screens of Windows Mobile 7.  If you’ve...

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Recently, I had posted about what I thought to be a terribly unimaginative motion controller plan for the Xbox 360 from the powers that be.  Recently, Teamxbox posted a follow-up story to the initial speculation, and I wanted to make sure to pass this along.

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Hola folks!  In honor of tygerfyr’s yearning for having the 360 do absolutely everything as a digital media hub, I found a link when perusing the web that details how to get .mp4 files to stream proper (and play properly) when streamed to the Xbox...

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As I was noodling around our new WordPress 2.5-flavored site, I decided to leaf through a couple of our very first posts, and I came across one of my very first posts back when the 360 had just been out to market for a couple...

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Mega Man 3 has easily one of my favorite game soundtracks from the NES days.  It was incredibly forward-thinking and surprisingly rocking for how limited the musical creation tools were for NES devkits (Apparently I’m not the only person who thinks so).  How appropriate it...

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I’m sure you’ve heard at least a small bit of rumbling about this lately, but this article seems to be the one to best capture the current state of the rumors that Microsoft is in fact creating a Wii-like wand controller for the Xbox 360. ...

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Downloadsquad just posted a story today regarding Viewfinder.  Succinctly,  Viewfinder takes an uploaded image and matches it to a spot in the world through the use of Google Maps.  While I’m highly skeptical of the power of such a system, it sounds like it would be...

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The news is popping all of the internet, the redesigned Playstation store launches April 15th!  W00t, ladies and gentlemen.  This has been a long time coming, and has some great features such as integrated preview screenshots/videos of content, and in-line icons that show already-purchased and...

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