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Video and Pictures from Microsoft Store Grand Opening in Scottsdale
Many thanks to Chris Hunkele for the pics and video’s from the grand opening! If you live in Phoenix or Scottsdale you like saw the news that Microsoft has opened it’s first (new) Microsoft Store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall and from the looks of things, it was a huge hit. With a few hundred [...]
Continue reading...PS3 May Win… Years From Now with 3D and Motion Control
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were first announced, we aren’t ashamed to say that we were avid fans of the PS3 platform… much more so than the self-aborting Xbox 360. It was a much higher build quality, the technical achievement of the Cell Processor was ridiculously complex and therefore impressive, it played Blu-ray [...]
Continue reading...Xbox 360 Broken, but Original Nintendo Still Working
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Marc Chung just sent this one in, got a kick out of it:
Continue reading...Windows 7 – It Just Works… As Long as You Don’t Use It
Monday, July 13, 2009
I’ve been using Windows 7 since the RC was announced a few months ago and we’ve had quite a bit to say about it — mostly all good. Over the last month I’ve noticed a trend in my Windows 7 install (that I use as my primary desktop and work machine) that was feeling all too [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Games the Bing Search Results
Monday, June 1, 2009
Saw this on Digg, they are search result comparisons between Google and Microsoft’s new “Bing” search engine with an $80 million ad campaign behind it: Given those results, I have to imagine Microsoft is going to allow advertisers to pay for higher search result placement — which, like this, will give us more helpful and completely [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 Feature: Tells You Which Program Has Locked Your Files
Friday, May 8, 2009
My god it’s the little things with software… it’s always the little things that endear you to software for the long haul or turn you off of it forever. As mentioned a few times, I’ve been on the Windows 7 RC for a bit over a week now and been pretty much thinking it’s great. It seems [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 – 4GB vs 8GB Performance
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
When I originally installed Windows 7 64-bit, I had 4GB in my machine. While the performance improvements I saw were noticable and appreciated, it was clear that Windows 7 was more than happy to consume all the RAM I could possibly throw at it: At the urging of Grant Gochanuer (happy owner of 12GB of RAM), [...]
Continue reading...20 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks You Will Love
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
TIP: You can download Windows 7 RC for free. Ok, you’ve been hearing the buzz about Windows 7, maybe you read our take on it (or saw the screenshot tour), and you want to give it a try. Let’s say you downloaded it, installed it and are now sitting there wondering “Wait, so what’s so cool [...]
Continue reading...Thoughts on Windows 7 After 3 Days
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Introduction It is no mystery that I’ve been part of the parade yelling “Vista Sucks!” since it’s inception – I’ve even taken the time to review Vista’s shortcomings for everyone willing to read it by only taking a look at changes in one program as an example of the half-assed decisions made throughout the entire OS. The [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Hosting a Huge Gears of War 2 Sweepstakes
Monday, January 26, 2009
Starting next week Microsoft is running a 13 day long Gear of War 2 Play and Win contest. February 1st through 13th each day you play will get you an entry to win a 40 inch 1080p LCD TV plus a lot of other Gears of War 2 themed prizes. Despite not knowing a single [...]
Continue reading...Video Games Show First Signs of Dominating Entertainment Market
Saturday, January 24, 2009
From cdfreaks.com: At least in terms of consumer spending, retail video games were more popular than DVD and Blu-ray discs in 2008, according to an international research group. Games accounted for 53 percent of entertainment software spending worldwide, Media Control GfK International said. These figures do not include movie or game rentals. The momentum is clearly in video [...]
Continue reading...Next Xbox Not Coming Soon
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
When Playstation 3 released Sony clearly stated that they plan for it to be their system for 10 years. Microsoft has not made any announcements about their next Xbox iteration but industry analysts were speculating it may released in time for. the 2010 Holiday season. However, Microsoft this week eluded to the Xbox 360 [...]
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
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