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You can't use the word 'Linux' on XBox Live

By feo
September 4, 2007 - 18 years ago

This was kinda funny. I’ll just post exactly what was said: I love Linux and the XBOX 360, so yesterday I tried to include the word “LINUX” in the motto section on XBOX Live. I was stunned when I got a message saying “Your motto contains inappropriate language. Please try again”. Come on Microsoft is that really inappropriate? Maybe only …

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Dead Rising 2 at Tokyo Game Show

By Gavin Mannion
September 4, 2007 - 18 years ago

It is being rumoured that we will be seeing Dead Rising 2 show its face at the Tokyo Game Show later this month. Hopefully with a much improved save system as well. Also being rumoured is that the PS3 is going to be graced with the presence of Dead Rising 2 and possibly Lost Planet. Hey it’s only fair after …

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Sony insults Halo 3 on Wikipedia

By Gavin Mannion
September 4, 2007 - 18 years ago

Someone at SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) is in trouble today… They have been updating the Halo entry on Wikipedia and added in “Halo 3 wont look any better than Halo 2” Not really to serious but when the IP was traced it ended up back at SCEE Liverpool Studios. It is most probably the work of a bored office …

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Skate PS3 vs Xbox 360..

By Gavin Mannion
September 4, 2007 - 18 years ago

I love these head to heads between the different consoles… Next in line for the treatement is Skate… this game has been receiving fantastic reviews all round about its gameplay but I haven’t actually heard much about its graphics. Well after the viewing the video it is quite easy to see which is the better looking version. Okay well maybe …

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Lair bombs….

By Gavin Mannion
September 4, 2007 - 18 years ago

1UP gave Lair 60/100 and the Internet went nuts. They started calling 1UP fanboys and the conspiracy theorists started revving their engines… Well it seems that people were right to complain, 1UP seems to be alone in its rating of Lair, they rated it to highly. IGN gave Lair a terrible 49/100 and Gamespot gave Lair an awful 45/100… Some …

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Popular Mechanics – Awesome Xbox 360 Competition

By Gavin Mannion
September 4, 2007 - 18 years ago

So you want to win a Xbox 360, a 40″ LCD TV, 10 EA games plus surround sound? Yeah thought you might…. Popular mechanics is running a competition on their website in conjunction with the rAge expo where you can win all of these prizes. All you have to do is give them your details (most probably for cold calling) …

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Japanese Hardware sales – Year in review

By Gavin Mannion
September 4, 2007 - 18 years ago

Bloomberg has been kind enough to put all the years hardware sales in a nice and neat orderly fashion. Which doesn’t cut and paste very well, anyway the basic facts are that the Wii has outsold everything since it joined the market. On average by about 3:1. The PS3 has consistently been second beating out the terribly performing Xbox 360 …

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PS3 Firmware 1.92 Available Tonight

By Gavin Mannion
September 4, 2007 - 18 years ago

Yet another PS3 firmware update. There are two ways that you can look at this, either Sony is on the ball by constantly adding new features and improving the PS3 on virtually a monthly basis. Or you need to just take off 100Mb from your available bandwidth for yet another lame PS3 update…  So have they improved the PS3 this time or …

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Microsoft cuts European price of add-on drive for Xbox

By Gavin Mannion
September 4, 2007 - 18 years ago

Microsoft has just cut the price of the HD-DVD add on for the 360 by 20 Euro’s in Europe… Which is just another price cut that we won’t get any benefit from since we don’t have the option to buy the HD-DVD drive locally… So we get to be annoyed by this news report twice…. Now that’s true value for …

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Cops bust piracy ring at Brightwater Commons

By Gavin Mannion
September 3, 2007 - 18 years ago

4 men have been arrested for attempting to sell counterfeit goods at Brightwater Commons on the weekend. The goods were valued at R300 000 and were mainly DVD’s and console games. One of the arrested men was the owner of two of the stores as well who was arrested trying to leave. In related news another pirate was sentenced to …

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Wacky Halo 3 Korean Marketing

By Gavin Mannion
September 3, 2007 - 18 years ago

Ha and Sony thought they had cornered the market on idiotic marketing… While the above video is okay for the first minute the second minute is an entirely different story. While I can’t tell if this video was flighted on TV or not it is available on the Korean Halo 3 site which is just as bad… I don’t understand …

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Haze is PS3 exclusive for the foreseeable future

By Gavin Mannion
September 3, 2007 - 18 years ago

  Haze was originally a PS3 exclusive before becoming a cross platform shooter. Well now it has decided that it wants to be a PS3 exclusive again. While no reasons have been given for this change of heart the rumours are that it is either that Sony paid for it because it is just that good. Or the developers where …

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