JoBildo, world famous Warhammer Blogger and Ten Ton Hammer Staff Member, is thinking about creating a Warhammer Online guild made up of bloggers.
If this sounds interesting to you, check out the post, Warhammer Guild – Who’s Interested?.
JoBildo, world famous Warhammer Blogger and Ten Ton Hammer Staff Member, is thinking about creating a Warhammer Online guild made up of bloggers.
If this sounds interesting to you, check out the post, Warhammer Guild – Who’s Interested?.
So according to a post at Engadget, the new 60 gig XBox 360 is hitting the streets, or more specifically, some Target stores. So far, no word on whether these units use the new (and presumably more reliable) “Jasper” motherboard.
I’m still trying to decide if I’m willing to give Microsoft another $350 in order to enjoy my XBox 360 games (once “Jasper” is confirmed to be in the pipeline). When I start to add up what I’ve spent already: the cost of the console, a $100 repair charge, a few years of XBox Live, Play & Charge kits… it might just add up to more than the $750 I spent on my 3DO all those years ago! Adding another $350 at this point definitely would push it way over that mark.
Worth it for the 360 exclusive titles? Tough call…
A couple of weeks back I wrote a rant against Harmonix (Harmonix can kiss my behind) after I learned that Rock Band 2 was going to be a timed exclusive for the XBox 360 (and I happened to get it for the PS3 due to my love/hate relationship with the 360).
Well after doing some snooping around, I now get the feeling that Microsoft is just doing a spin job on this timed exclusive stuff. I think Harmonix is just taking a little bit longer to finish the PS3 version, which is a totally different thing from accepting a boatload of money from Microsoft in order to shaft PS3 owners.
I have a few reasons for this change of heart. First, if you look at release dates on Gamestop and Amazon (and I know these aren’t always, or even often, reliable), they have the XBox 360 version, game only, with a launch date of September 14th and the bundles (ie with instruments) for both PS3 & XBox360, as well as the PS3 game only, listed for October 19th.
Second, Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb was on Leo Laporte’s “This Week in Tech” podcast talking about E3. During the conversation Hryb mentioned that Rock Band 2 was a limited time XBox 360 Exclusive and when Laporte asked him how long it was exclusive for, Hryb claimed he didn’t know.
So first of all, if Microsoft had purchased a “Timed Exclusive” window from Harmonix, I suspect Hryb would know exactly how long that exclusive was for (though I’ll grant you he might not have wanted to share that knowledge). Second, it seems almost silly to buy exclusivity for only a month (assuming the Amazon and Gamestop dates are accurate). And lastly, if it was a business deal you’d expect both the stand-alone game and the bundle to be exclusive, not just the game.
So now my suspicion is that Harmonix had the 360 version finished earlier and just figured they might as well ship it asap rather than wait for the instruments and the PS3 version to be completed. And when Microsoft learned about this, they started using it as a “timed exclusive” marketing point, with no money changing hands.
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.
Esquire First Publication To Use Electronic Ink
Hearst said the issue will feature a cover across which various words and images will scroll ” news-ticker style — thanks to technology developed by Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink.
I have nothing to add except, this will probably be the only issue of Esquire I ever buy.
Something to amuse you while you wait for LittleBigPlanet:
Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game
I’m often accused of being thin-skinned or overly sensitive about certain topics, and gaming past wars is definitely one of them.
So I have to give a cheer to Ross Arbour’s article over at Nukoda:
Wii Aren’t Amused: Call of Duty World at War and Nintendo’s E3 Press Conference
Mr. Arbour takes exception to that portion of the Nintendo press conference where two friends were shown gleefully waggling their remotes to simulate hosing down Japanese soldiers with a flamethrower. I remember seeing that segment and having a definite “WTF?” moment. I thank Mr. Arbour for reminding me of it and bringing broader attention to the topic.
No, this isn’t a military story…
After Jeff Gerstmann left gaming site Gamespot in the midst of a controversy about his publishers strong-arming him to give advertisers positive reviews, he started work on a new gaming site called Giant Bomb. He had a blog going while all the features got built; I’ve been reading it and its been pretty good.
Now the full site is open. I just found that out this morning and honestly I haven’t dug into it much yet, but wanted to spread the word asap so readers of Dragonchasers can get over there and claim their preferred username. 🙂
According to this page on Circuit City’s web site the new 60 gig XBox 360 will have an HDMI port (and includes a headset).
Encouraging news because it would indicate new internals rather than the old and unreliable 20 gig internals with a bigger hard drive. Could it be Microsoft will soon offer a console that gamers can play with confidence?
Sorry to keep going on about this show, but its so good I’d hate for any of my readers to miss it.
The third and final part is now posted, and the whole shebang is only up until sometime Sunday (tomorrow).
Joss Whedon fans, don’t miss it!