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Microsoft Mole Dishes on Current State

The email didn't beat around the bush. "I can confirm that the Enchant Arms date is valid. I work at Microsoft." Our insider was responding to a post we did on Ubisoft's "leaked" schedule. The mole and I traded a few emails back and forth, and he had this to say:

Lately most focus has been upon Oblivion honestly, and getting the new hardware certified. MS has been breathing down our necks to get it approved. Rumble Roses just got finished yesterday, it is pretty much garbage. 99 nights will arrive next week for its first pass at certification and approval. I am fairly sure it will be the Japanese version but that is unknown. Oh yeah, the DOA4 patch that was released was for online lag since so many people whined about it. All the testing is done on closed networks so lag is never noticed, too much of a security risk to do real world testing. Top Spin 2 just finished certification as well. Blazing Angels hasn't even come in for certification yet. Enchant Arms has come through and been rejected already. Its damn fun, goofy story however. Right now a lot of work is being done of Street Fight 2 because the lag is very bad and they are having trouble getting it playable online.

Oh yeah, and testing the new hardware revision.

Will wait before voicing my opinion on the validity of these claims. But as always, thoughts, comments welcomed.

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4:30 PM on Tue Mar 14 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
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