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Co-op Game Bill of Rights: 2008 Edition
Last week we published some thinking on what we'd like to see of future co-op titles. The problem we were trying to address is simply that the basic "bar" of what a co-op game should include isn't really defined, and game support seems to be...
Halo's Halo Affecting Movies?
Could be, according to this Next Gen article : Halo 3, released on September 25, grossed a whopping $170 million in first day sales, a figure that had swelled to over $300 million by early October. In contrast, North American movie box office takings...
Halo 3 Charity Launch Event (Seattle Area)
Just wanted to point anyone who might be interested to a Seattle-area Halo 3 charity launch event . It's being pulled together by a good friend and coworker of mine Scott Henson (Gamertag: Bear ), and is a great way to get that Halo 3 loving feeling going...
Web 2.0 - The Machine is Us/ing Us
With full credit to Kim Pallister's blog for pointing it out, I wanted to share a great video that summarizes the evolution of the web and explains quite succinctly what all this "Web 2.0" stuff is about. Web 2.0 is a pretty over-burdened phrase these...
Buggy Saints Row: The Musical
All games have bugs - that's pretty much the reality of things. But sometimes people take those bugs and create something that's pretty darned funny. A guy named Cabel posted a mashup he did of some Saints Row bugs he experienced and a musical that he...
Thanks for your Live Thoughts!
Just wanted to write a quick post to thank all of you who had suggestions for us about the future of Live. While I can't comment on specific suggestions, I can say that many of your thoughts are already being thought about. There were also some new...
Your Thoughts on the Future of Live?
I'm doing some thinking around the future of "Xbox Live". I put Xbox Live in quotes only because Live will be stretching beyond the console this year with the release of Live on Windows, and we're looking at a future where multiple devices...
Good Editorial on Game Reviews and Popular Opinion
Happened to see a link (and discussion) on Evil Avatar to a good editorial on game reviews by Jeff Gerstmann of Gamespot. Thought it was particularly interesting as recently a few folks have accused me of having a bias on anything I write. It's sort...
[Update] XFire Sues over GameSpy Comrade... But Why?
News on the web today is that Xfire is suing GameSpy for how their GameSpy Comrade "Buddy Sync" feature creates friends lists. To quote: Now Battlefield 2142 is caught up in a legal tangle between rival in-game instant messaging programs Xfire...