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Xbox Live Pries the Guns from Your Cold, Avatar Hands
This announcement oughta go over like a turd in a punchbowl. Seems that on Jan. 1, Xbox Live is taking guns away from all avatars. That is according to Epic Games’ community manager, who in a reminder to Gears of War fans said that if they don’t have the Lancer or Hammerburst avatar props, they…
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Video Playback Quality Poorer Under New Xbox Dashboard: Report
The Xbox 360’s video player does not display video properly, a problem that testers reported during the new dashboard’s beta period, and one confirmed by Eurogamer this weekend. The issue seems to be that the new dashboard forces videos to display at limited-range RGB levels, which in layman’s terms means the color looks washed out.…
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Microsoft’s Furry Kinect Mascots Take a Trip to Apple Land
Once the poster lovable wild animals for Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect peripheral, the Kinectimals now appear to be feline ambassadors of goodwill to the iPad and iPhone. How very odd. Released last month for the Windows Phone 7, Kinectimals for iOS devices retains all the functionality of that version, right down to the ability to transfer…
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Indie Developers Unhappy with their Placement in the New Xbox Dashboard
If you count the directions keyed on the D-pad (or the left stick) it takes 17 button presses to reach the Indie Games section of the Xbox Live Marketplace under the new Xbox dashboard, which released this week. It takes only eight buttons to get to the Xbox Live Arcade and Games on Demand catalogs.…
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Xbox Live is Free This Weekend in Europe [Corrected]
On the heels of the new dashboard rollout this week, Xbox Live’s Gold level services are free to all this weekend. In addition to multiplayer gaming, features like Video Kinect are also available to Silver (free) subscribers. The weekend includes free previews and discounts on downloadable films (like The Hangover) as well. Enjoy. [Correction] I…
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Xbox Verizon FiOS Viewing Will Be Weighed and Measured by Nielsen
Later this month Verizon will be launching 26 channels of live streaming cable content through the Xbox Live dashboard for users of its FiOS TV service, a brand new way to watch cable made possible in part by the support of North America’s ancient television audience measurement system. Measuring television audience size since the 1950s,…
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Wear Your Xbox Live Avatar on Your Chest, Water Bottle, or Coffee Mug
Do it yourself clothing and crap company CafePress has teamed up with Microsoft to give Xbox Live users the ability to print and purchase stuff starring their own personalized avatar. Let’s go Voltron force! At least that’s what would be on my chest if I went ahead and ordered the snazzy t-shirt on the left…
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Kinect Helps High School Duo Win $100,000 National Science Prize
Who says gaming can’t lead to a higher education? Ziyuan Liu and Cassee Cain of Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge are splitting a $100,000 college scholarship awarded in the Siemens Foundation’s annual high school science competition after creating a Kinect-powered application that uses Microsoft’s magical camera to analyze the way a person walks.…
By Mike Fahey
