In case you missed it Xbox unveiled a whole redux to the Xbox 360 GUI they are calling New Xbox Experience. Gone are the blades that take up the whole screen. Now we have screens which are less cluttered, a fresh 3D perspective look, Avatars, a new party system, netflix integration, ability to load games straight to the hard drive and much more.
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I’ve been reading all these articles and digesting all this information from the Internet and from TV and it’s really got my biscuit’a burn’n.
Here’s the thing- with every version of Windows it’s always the same hype and the same result- big talk and no walk; it was all falls and embarrassment. Anyone who’s spent more than 5 minutes in a IT shop knows [memorized] the installation screens of Win 95,98, ME and XP; they all say faster, better, more dependable and it was just the same garbage regurgitated over and over with no REAL jump in usability [XP was a nice step though]. There were no huge benefits.
Gizmodo posted a nice article, and while entertaining, it just got me going on all the things customers have been told in the past about the previous versions of Windows. With each version, customers have been promised these huge jumps on features and function that was supposed to revolutionize the world- it didn’t.
When Microsoft came out with [that god awful] Vista, it was pushed as the thing that ‘…makes you say wow’. The release of Vista was not the monumental release Microsoft wanted. They were being pressured to release a version of something; anything. It resulted in a super public relations nightmare and they had customers pissed who never thought they could be; getting emails left and right about how flawed this Operating System was. They pulled a George W. Bush and walked the line of everything is fine and ignored the press, the users and the [oh yeah] problems. Their thoughts were just keep pushing Vista- it’ll come around.
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Well, for all of you who are thinking of doing some online gaming next Monday, find something else to do. MicroSoft is doing some maintenance on the network. This is not the fall update that was demonstrated earlier this year. It is a precursor to it. They will take the systems down at 12:01 PST on 9/29. it will be down for up to 24 hours.
So, Fumbler and Missing Link go outside and talk to people, without using any technology. It is called being human.
Sir Slur
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I am the only person writing on this site who likes sports games. So, I am going to tell you that NBA Live 09 has to be one of the best games coming out. I am not saying this because the graphics are so great, but they are. I am also not saying this because it has everything you could want, but it does.
It has a new feature that makes it the best game coming to the market. Here is what EA says about it:
Made Fresh Daily All Season Long - NBA LIVE 365 takes it to a whole new level of connectivity, providing you an unprecedented level of authenticity and realism. Now every game truly is different powered by Dynamic DNA data updating daily.
What this means is that as time goes by and teams make trades, release players, or players abilities change in real life (that is what people do when not sitting at home like me) they will also change on your game. All you have to have is a network connection and XBox live.
Just think if they would do it for all their games. A first person shooter based on a conflict or war that is currently happening? Talk about having the best QA for the military. They would have a legion of kids, and adults like me showing them what we could do.
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Ever had that question? So much so that you lose sleep at night, screaming “why God why?” Well never fear, the internet gods have given us the Can you Run it site. The system requirements on games are so high today and the PC game boxes are so cryptic that its getting harder and harder to find out if a game will run on your 3 year old piece of crap (I’m not bitter at all). For broke ass games like me, this site is a god sent.
This site came about by a friend at work because I was curious if my game will run the latest crack MMO called Warhammer Online. With just a few mouse clicks and a java app load, I have my answer and I am happy to say MY PC WILL PLAY WARHAMMER! Suck it new hardware 
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I am really diggin the new version of COD: World at War. From a person who’s had every version of COD excluding 3 because they alienated the PC gamers who made it famous. COD is hours and hours of solid homicidal fun and consistent killing of players who just die easy. Ah to be back in MC boot camp, smellin CS Gas, spray’n the neighbors for napalm and clean’n my gun at bed time.
YouTube - Call of Duty 5: World at War ‘Co-op Gameplay’ HD QUALITY.
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- Mind reader
I’m not going to sit here in front of my monitor and lie and tell you I didn’t see this comin, but I did. Some scientist has come up with a way to read your thoughts with a snap on head-band so you can sit in your chair and play video games. Now as a old timer, I can remember the scene from ‘Demolition Man’ where Sylvester and Sandra snap on a pair of head sets and pretend to have video game sex.
Are we really going to welcome even more lazy habits for the aging Americans and die hard gaming kids? I guess so. This invention when perfected will require absolutely no movement on a humans part. Why do I vision the half ton man with this thing strapped to his head, but in the virtual world, he’s Andrew Dice Clay in Ford Fairlane.
But this isn’t the end. It’s going to be there for pilots, race car drivers and office workers. And in thinking about this I envision the officer asking the woman [after the accident] what happened? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! Do we really want to know? But the true tragedy is that lying will be impossible because the equivalent to the airplane flight recorder [little black box] will be recording every thought you’ve had while wearing that neuron gleaming device. Darn.
What I want to say is, when is technology going to stop? At what point is too much technology? Where is the balance of benefit to technology vs the degradation of the human race. I guess we’ll find out when Call of Duty 36 comes out…
Head Games: Video Controller Taps into Brain Waves: Scientific American.
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