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Project Natal Release Date & Hardware Update

Microsoft announced at CES this year, that Project Natal has a release date of ‘Holiday 2010’. There’s been no official release date, but at least we know that it’ll be high on some Xbox 360 gamers Christmas list in 2010.

Along with the announcement of the Project Natal release date, it’s also been confirmed that Microsoft are to drop a hardware chip from Natal’s motion control system to save themselves some money. The hardware chip was going to be the processing power for Natal, but this has now been dropped and a software solution has been set in place.

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Microsoft’s CES Press Event – HP Slate & Xbox 360 News (CES 2010)

After much hype running up to Microsoft’s press event at CES yesterday evening, (it took place at 6PM Pacific, 2AM GMT) there wasn’t much to shout about, although there was one interesting product revealing in the form of the HP Slate.

Referring to the HP Slate, Steve Ballmer said that the device is “more powerful than a phone and almost as powerful as a PC. Perfect for reading, surfing the web and taking entertainment on the go”. It runs Windows 7 and is fully touch screen operated, sporting various modes that allow the user to watch movies, use the device as an e-book or a regular PC. It certainly looks impressive, but however they market the Slate it’s still not the Courier that everyone was hoping for!

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Has Microsoft Turned Into The New IBM?

Surfing the web today, I came across a very interesting interview on SeattlePi with Don Dodge, who was Microsoft’s Director of Business Development for the Emerging Business Team until getting laid off last month. During the interview, he revealed his opinions on Microsoft, their current situation and where they’re heading. He also revealed that he thinks “Microsoft is a lot like IBM was in 1985”, going on to say that “after 20 years they are losing the innovation edge.” This got me thinking; has Microsoft lost the ability to innovate after being the most dominative force in computing since the late 1980’s? And if so, why?

I think a key to the solution is the sheer amount of things Microsoft does. When you think of the number of markets Microsoft compete in, you can understand that it’s extremely difficult, maybe impossible, to dominate every market. Not only do Microsoft develop and maintain the Windows OS, they also compete in the market for smart phones with Windows Mobile; the gaming market with the Xbox 360 and internet search with Bing.

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How To Setup Xbox 360 Media Player ‘Ecosystem’ Guide: Part One

As promised in my How To Setup Xbox 360 Media Player Guide teaser, with this help of this guide you should be able to stream everything. Play anything. Hundreds of HD movies. Thousands of songs. No DVDs, no DRM, no getting up from the sofa. No need for your PC to even be on and above all, no fruit! I told you I’d show you how to do it, so here it is. From scratch.

Part One: Infrastructure and Software

I recommend that you follow this guide with a clean installation of Windows 7 on a modern, Intel, dual-core or better native PC (ie. Not VM or Boot Camp), with at least 2GB of RAM, an internal SATA HDD, wired Ethernet and USB2 onboard.

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Alien Breed: Evolution – Episode 1 Review (XBLA)

I never played the original Alien Breed which received cult status all those years ago, so I went into Alien Breed being new to the game. I have looked into the original to see what all the hype was about and from what I have read, Alien Breed: Evolution is very impressive and stays as close as it can to what made it so good all those years ago on the mighty Commodore Amiga!

I know people have slated Team 17’s latest game (the fanboys who just can’t let go), but I don’t see what they’re complaining about. I found this to be addictive as hell and couldn’t put it down, especially after first having a preview of it when we attended Eurogamer Expo 2009 in Leeds back in October.

The storyline of the game is a ship called the ‘Leopold’ crashes into another ship near a planet’s orbit and they then start to be pulled into the atmosphere and it’s up to you to get the ships power back online and avoid certain doom. But of course, you have hoards of aliens trying to stop you along the way.

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Star Trek: The Movie Future Begins On USB! (Or Not)

I just had to buy this. It’s the new Star Trek movie on a cool all-metal USB key, and it’s in DIVX!
Well, that’s just what the Xbox 360 / Archos / just about everything (apart from the crapple) I have, loves the most! It will play on six devices and well and.. OH MY GOD. Let’s start at the beginning, and then painfully work our way through everything that’s wrong with it, shall we?

I imagine that most people will go through the following sequence, and please bare with me if this isn’t exactly the same for you…

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Final Fantasy 13 Release Date Announced

And about bloody time!!!

I’ve never know a game that has been put back so many times as has the Final Fantasy 13 release date being delayed, well perhaps Duke Nukem takes that crown, but anyway a release date has now been set in stone for the launch of the European and US version of Final Fantasy XIII which will be 9th March 2010. The Japanese are lucky as their release date is much earlier and they are getting the game next month…..surprise, surprise!

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Microsoft Bans ‘Chipped Xbox 360 Pirates’ From Xbox Live

As millions of people across the globe eagerly got started on probably the biggest game this year; COD6: Modern Warfare 2, some for in for a nasty surprise as they discovered that they were on the raw end of Microsoft’s plan to help curb the increasing amount of piracy: they had been banned from Xbox Live, permanently.

The crime? Installing new chips that allows them to run unofficial or illegal programmes and games, and easily pirate games and download them for free. According to Microsoft this modifying of the console with the express interest to play games illegally is an infringement of the terms of use of Xbox Live and have therefore banned them from the service.

A spokesman for the company said: “All consumers should know that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 console to play pirated discs violates the Xbox Live terms of use, will void their warranty and result in a ban from Xbox Live”.

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Project Natal Release Date & Price Announced?

A release date and price has apparently been unofficially announced for the Xbox 360 motion control system; Project Natal and I have to say I’m quite surprised by them, it will be released at a price of around £50 and has a release date of November 2010 – I personally thought it would be a lot more than this, so if true, this is great news from Microsoft!

When Xbox 360’s Project Natal motion controller system is released there will be 14 games available, but nothing yet on whether any of these will be AAA titles. Lionhead have been working on the Project Natal AI kids known as Milo and Kate so could this be a possible launch title? From what I’ve seen of it, it looks impressive and is one of the many reasons I bought an Xbox 360.

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Download Unreal Engine 3 Development Kit – Free Game Design Software!

Have you ever wanted to play around with the Unreal Engine 3? Yes the Unreal Engine 3 that is used to create some of the best video games currently out there (some of which were on display at the recent Eurogamer Expo), well now you have your chance!

Epic Games have released a free version of their Unreal Engine 3 to the world to use the impressive software. You can download the Unreal Development Kit and have full access to the Unreal Editor, Unreal Content Browsers and Unreal Script to name a few.

The software has become available for free to non-commercial and educational users, but if you make a game and want to make it commercial, there will be some terms that you’ll have to check up on.

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