E3 09: Microsoft press conference

June 1st, 2009

A lot of the games announced at the Microsoft press conference didn’t really surprise me, as most of them were expected. The only real shock was the fact that Metal Gear Solid is coming to the Xbox 360. The only thing that tempered that announcement is that the game will be based on Raiden, who [...]

Windows Vista isn’t all that bad

March 6th, 2009

Yup, after spewing quite a bit of venom Vista’s way, I’ve had a change of heart. When I first used the OS it was on my friend’s notebook, and this was back before SP1 had been released. So the performance wasn’t exactly stellar. During this time frame Vista deserved all of the bad press it [...]

I no longer own an Xbox 360

December 10th, 2008

Yup, I finally got rid of my 360. It’s because over the entire life span of the console I had managed to acquire the staggering amount of one game. Nothing in the foreseeable future grabbed my interest, either. I also experienced the Red Ring of Death, and didn’t want to have to go through all [...]

Microsoft’s NXE

November 21st, 2008

Microsoft released the “New Xbox Experience” earlier this week, bringing big changes as to how 360 owners navigate and use the console. The biggest changes were in the user interface, moving away from the old blades system. They also added in avatars that users could customize.
The new user interface certainly is a lot prettier, effectively [...]