All Entries Tagged With: "Microsoft"
Microsoft Has Free Advertisement at the Oklahoma / BYU Game
It’s one thing to have your computer crash. It’s another to have it crash in front of thousands of sports fans. This latest humiliation took place Saturday at the pre-game festivities for the Oklahoma/Brigham Young game at the at the brand new $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. TUAW Reader Jeff tells them that [...]
XBOX 360: Coming Soon? XBOX 360 Super Elite. 250gig Storage? Africa Says so.
So much for secrecy. South African Xbox 360 distributor Comztek has told local gaming news site XboxGaming.co.za that the a 250GB “Super Elite” model is due there in October. Additionally, the Forza 3 bundle we saw heading to Germany is also en route to SA, retailing for R4,999 (US $646), or around the same price [...]
XBOX 360: Facebook and Twitter Will Not Be Free.
This shouldn’t really come as too much of a surprise, but anyone wanting to enjoy Twitter and Facebook on Xbox Live will have to pony up for Gold member subscription, the same premium prerequisite currently needed for Netflix Instant Watch and pretty much all online gaming. Silver membership will be given a “free trial,” but [...]
Xbox 360 Elite Slim Showing its Face for $299 At Wal-Mart
Yep you see it right here folks. 299 for the Xbox 360Elite. It was all but inevitable that Microsoft was going to hit back at the PS3 Slim with its own $299 120GB console, and while we’re still waiting on official confirmation Microsoft, this purported Walmart ad clipping sure seems to know where the Xbox [...]
Want To Buy Windows 7. WAIT! Better Deals Are Incomming.
Microsoft’s half-price deal for Windows 7 ran out a few weeks ago, bumping prices back to painful levels. If you’re thinking about pre-ordering anyway, wait. There’s a decent chance there’ll be some new deals as we get closer to launch. They want the launch to be a success, after all, and success will be measured [...]
XBOX 360: 1080p, Twitter, Facebook, On-Demand Games, Motion Control and More!
Microsoft is busy announcing a slew of upgrades to Xbox Live, and the biggest news so far is relaunch of the video service, now Zune-branded with 1080p instant-on streaming content in 18 countries. XBL is also now integrated with Facebook — your Facebook account can be linked to your Gamertag, and games will support Facebook [...]
Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Release Ready for the Holidays
Microsoft originally promised that Windows 7 would be released within three years of Vista—which would put the release date in January 2010—but now the folks at Redmond have confirmed that Windows 7 (and Server 2008 R2) will officially be ready for the 2009 holiday season. We’d already heard plenty of rumors regarding the Windows 7 [...]
There Will Be More Halo 3 Content From Bungie
Last month, Bungie said a teary farewell to Halo 3. Or so we thought. Instead, it was just a teary…something else, because Bungie have no intentions of leaving the best-selling game behind. Speaking with IGN at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Bungie’s Allen Murray has said "Halo 3 took two and a half [...]
XBOX 360 Elite to be Phased out
This one’s still a long ways from actually panning out, but Fudzilla is reporting that Microsoft could be about to phase out its standard Xbox 360 Elite console and instead fill out the top end of the scale with limited edition models like the recent Resident Evil 5 bundle. According to the site’s unnamed sources, [...]
Microsoft Says Red Ring of Death Nightmares are Over
Are the Xbox 360-killing problems that cause the infamous Red Ring of Death gone? And will people who send in their consoles for repairs have to cycle through the process multiple times to get a real fix? Over at Edge, Kris Graft put those questions to Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, who said the console’s biggest technical [...]
Gears of War Movie Trilogy Planned
Director Len Wiseman’s spoken for the first time on plans for the Gears of War movie, revealing the plan is to actually create three of them. “It’s going to be much more [on the] science fiction side of it than the creature side of it. I’ve always been much more of a sci-fi action fan [...]
XBOX 360: Mysterious dash update released. It’s a mystery?!?
The boys over at Xbox360fanboy are reporting there users have recived an unannounce behind the scences update to there dashboard. The update installs the new dashboard version 2.0.7363.0 (replacing the old 2.0.7357.0 version) and has been slowly releasing across all consoles connected to Xbox Live.So, what new bells and whistles does the new dash update [...]
Zune: The Aftermath
So Zune hit another snag. A major one at that. Yesterday all 30gig Zunes where disabled due to a Leap Year clock bug. Microsoft’s only response was that they where sorry and to wait till Jan 1, 2009 , drain the battery and reset the device. Seem most peoples Zunes are back in Operation [...]
So, How About The Big Twenty Oh Nine?
With 2008 drawing to a close, we must now look towards the future. 2009. What’s there to expect? Hit the link for the rundown.
Peek inside the latest Halo novel, The Cole Protocol
Now available in fine book stores around the globe is the latest Halo universe novel penned by Tobias S. Buckell, Halo: The Cole Protocol. And for those interested in getting their Halo read on, but want a sampling of Mr. Buckell’s writing style, we advise making the jump over to Bungie.net to read the novel’s [...]
- Tahlequah - Grand Opening Nerd Town Emporium - September 25 2010! ~Free Tourny
- Magic the Gathering League @ Wizards Asylum
- Jenks ---- Magic FNM Friday Sept 3rd Plus Saturday Sept 4th "Holiday event!"
- OKC - First EVER Halo Reach LAN - 9/18/2010 - HxC LAN
- JENKS! - Pokemon Battle Roads - Saturday October 9th
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