Same grind as last week, head on over to Gamerscoreblog for the juice, or look at this video:

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So, the downside of working for a living and having a wonderful new woman in my life is that sometimes, release dates for games I’ve held quiet vigils for for an alarming amount of time, slip by me.  When I realized yesterday during the day that Spore had been released on Sunday and I was at work – it was a bad bad time. 

On the other hand I was thrilled to find out that EA was offering up my undoing via digital download.  Needless to say, this is how I purchased the game (Steam had never done me wrong I thought).  Here’s about how it went:

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Respectfully standing out of the way of Apple and their Let’s Rock event tomorrow, Microsoft has shown their Zune hand, and it looks like a full house, folks.

Check out their press release for full details.

There are several cool features in here, most of which make me strongly consider purchasing a Zune player (my “Young Buck”-branded iPod Photo is a tank, though!), including wireless Marketplace integration on the player, Buy from FM functionalilty, and the ability to download Audiobooks and Games for your Zune player.  Since I haven’t purchased a Zune yet though, I was even more interested in the Zune 3.0 client software update.  I’ll let the following video speak for itself…

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Over the weekend I had a little time to catch up on some of the demos that have been piling up on me for a while. I’d already played through Braid (which is a beautifully conceived game), and had on deck Madden 09, NBA Live 09, and the XBLA game: Pirates v. Ninjas dodgeball. My experiences with these three demos could not have been more different.

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…they are tricky.  Resident genius and sarcastic Californian Hillary Goldstein casually mentioned that Microsoft will be stopping by the IGN offices to demonstrate the New Xbox Experience this week!

Check out their podcast for some hilarity and the soundbyte (at the very end of the podcast).