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1 VS 100 Season 2 Premieres Next Week
1 vs 100, the Xbox 360‘s massively multiplayer online game show, makes its triumphant return next week, with new questions, more prizes, and all the Chris Cashman you can stand. More than a half a million unique contestants competed in the 15 week beta season of 1 vs 100, and Microsoft wants even more to…
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Halo Waypoint Will Be What You Make Of It
Yesterday 343 Industries released Halo Waypoint, the Xbox 360 destination for all things Halo. Kotaku spoke to Halo franchise executive producer Josh Holmes about how fans will help determine the direction Waypoint takes. Josh Holmes has been in the industry for around 15 years. He was part of the EA Canada exodus that formed Propaganda…
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Major Nelson Weighs In On 360 Console Bans
Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb discusses the recent string of Xbox Live piracy console bannings, delivering an important caveat to those purchasing used machines in the process. Last week Microsoft launched a string of Xbox Live console bans on Xbox 360s that had been modified to play pirated software, which naturally cause an uproar among…
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Xbox Live Ops Manager Ain’t Going for this Facebook/Games Thing
In the latest thrilling episode of Major Nelson‘s podcast, the gang raps about the DSi XL and its virtues and drawbacks, and regular guest “e” (Eric Neustadter, the Xbox Live operations manager) says this whole gaming/Facebook synergy? Not diggin’ it. “I find the in-game uses, OK, may be interesting, the out-of-game, hey, it’s a camera,…
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Alan Wake Devs Might Withhold Ending from Preview Copies
Alan Wake‘s developers are concerned enough about spoilers getting out that they’ll talk with Microsoft about keeping the game’s ending out of copies sent to the press in advance of its release. G4TV quotes the Remedy Entertainment managing director Matias Myllrinne as saying the studio is “insanely careful” about how much of the story it’ll…
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Dress Your Xbox Avatar In University Pride
Display your love for your favorite institute of higher learning with the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace University Collection, as long as yours is one of the top 30 U.S. Universities. If Georgia made the cut, odds are your favorite did too. Disruptive Media Publishers today announces the release of the University Collection on the Xbox…
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Do You Strive For Gamerscore Completion?
An interesting feature over at Gamasutra looks at the percentage of players who actually achieve a perfect Gamerscore in popular Xbox Live titles. Do you play until the last point is awarded? Gamasutra acquired data on the top 13 Xbox Live Games for 2008 from Microsoft Game Studios user research expert Bruce Phillips, which he…
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Xbox Live Exec: No Cloud for Near Future
A streaming games service – “cloud gaming,” as the buzzphrase has it – is on Microsoft’s horizon but, for the near-term, it’s not something that can be reasonably delivered to a local-machine user, said the Europe boss for Xbox Live. Speaking at the London Games Festival, Jerry Johnson told an audience at the British Academy…
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Who’s Who In Halo: Evolutions
Tor Books has released a list of the authors contributing to the Halo: Evolutions anthology novel, along with the cover art, featuring everyone’s favorite green suit of armor with a guy inside it. Halo: Evolutions, due out on November 24th, is an extended look at the Halo universe through the eyes of popular science fiction…
By Mike Fahey