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Xbox 360 + Blu-ray Rumors More Serious
Microsoft continues to deny a Xbox 360 with a Blu-ray drive to avoid letting 360s sit on shelves and collect dust while people wait… but rumor has it that a subsidary of ASUS has won the contract to build the Xbox 360’s with the Blu-ray drives in them for Microsoft, prepping for a Q3 release [...]
Continue reading...Sun to Begin Closing up MySQL Source Code
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Uh-oh, Spaghettio’s! Looks like Sun is going to start closing up some of the open source portions of MySQL, namely the more advanced functionality and the backup solutions that are currently open sourced. Can you blame them? They paid a goddamn billion for MySQL, it’s not too surprising that they want to create some value-add [...]
Continue reading...Legit Vista Crack (OEM Emulation) Released
Monday, March 3, 2008
APC reports that a legit Vista crack has made it’s way out in the form of an OEM emulator. Apparently Microsoft does not require activation from machines with Vista on them from some OEM partners (See above screenshot) and the crack takes advantage of that. Also… for the folks reading this, “legit Vista crack” doesn’t mean [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Mediacenter Plug-in
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Anthony Park has released on open beta plug-in, that allows you to utilize your Netflix “Watch it Now” functionality on your Media Center PC. The plug-in is still in beta and still a little buggy, but to be able to cruise movies, shows and concerts with your remote on watch a movie on demand is [...]
Continue reading...Fable 2 GDC Walkthrough Summary
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
As a follow up to the super-Co-Op that Fable 2 will have in it, I watched the GDC walkthroughs and am here to summarize them for you: NOTE: I am not clear from the walkthrough if the co-op is online or offline only. He talks a lot about the “camera” and how it manages to keep [...]
Continue reading...Fable 2 to have Persistence Co-Op
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Good lord… it’s like Molyneux dug into my brain, found my fantasies, removed all the perverted ones, and decided to design an RPG that makes me cry tears of healing. What am I talking about? Fable 2 is going to not only be completely co-op-able with a friend, it’s also going to be a persistent co-op [...]
Continue reading...Gears of War 2: November
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Well it looks like Chris Hunkele was right, Gears of War 2 is coming and the seed came out of GDC as expected. It’s looking like a November release, Xbox 360 exclusive, will graphically push the Xbox fairly hard, and as a result, we will all have RRoDs to deal with right after launch. Ohhhhhh BURN Update [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Buyout of Epic?
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Ruh-roh! Maybe the booth orientation at GDC is more about Microsoft expecting to buyout Epic and not a Gears of War 2 announcement? Either way, I’m excited to see Microsoft buy Epic, destroy it forcing them to make 10 Gears of War titles (like Halo) then split it off again in 8 years after everyone fucking [...]
Continue reading...Gears of War 2 Coming Soon?
Monday, February 18, 2008
Whilst trolling the interwebs for new games coming out of the 2008 Game Developers Conference, I happened to notice Epic and Microsoft getting cozy together on the floorspace. And after doing some looking, it looks like Amazon has a product page for “Gears of War 2″… I wonder if they know something? If It’s true i [...]
Continue reading...Music Using Windows Sounds Only
Sunday, February 17, 2008
This is pretty awesome, it’s music created using simply the system sounds from a Windows install. I was surprised how cool it could still sound… like music is 80% beat and 20% actual sounds? I guess that is why Stomp is able to exist? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsU3B0W3TMs
Continue reading...Windows Server 2008 as a Super Charged Desktop OS
Friday, February 15, 2008
Apparently it’s Microsoft Friday around here… anyway Laurence Hartje sent in a link (via Neowin) to Vijayshinva Karnure’s Blog where he describes exactly how to use Windows Server 2008 as a “SUPER workstation OS” by adjusting services, themes, etc. The big appeal seems to be that Server 2008 is a much more stable core and overall [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft “Forge” Superheros
Friday, February 15, 2008
Chris Hunkele sent over a link from TechCrunch that discusses the new buzz-bunny from Scoble… I’ll call it “Microsoft Forge”… or “Microsoft Superhero”… or something. The rumor is that on February 27th Microsoft is releasing a new technology/platform to the open source community. The teaser page is: http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/heroes/default.mspx What we do know so far is: It’s probably based on [...]
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