Tag: Microsoft

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I’m sure by now everyone knows that Modern Warfare 2’s online is plagued by some serious glitches, the most famous of which is the Javelin glitch, causing a player to instantly explode violently when killed, usually destroying his attacker and possibly anyone else in the area.
Both Infinity Ward and Microsoft have responded to the prevalence [...]

I’ve been running through my fair share of video games lately, and one thing I noticed about a few of them as I was playing was that either I’ve become extremely fickle, or there are some really balls-to-the-wall bad ideas being trumpeted right at the start of games that really make the entire game unplayable.  [...]

OK, so is this just me or is anyone else finding that the NXE, the 360’s ‘wonderful’ new dashboard upgrade, is becoming rather less wonderful in terms of its speed. One of the major selling points was the fact that the NXE would rectify a lot of the speed issues the old dashboard was becoming [...]

If the grumbles I heard last night are any indication then there’s a good chance you’ll see at least one article appearing here bashing the NXE (if Skills can quit being lazy long enough to put his rant-pen to paper). However, before that happens I wanted to chime in with my thoughts since they fall [...]

Alright, so Microsoft has been running this Summer of Arcade program for the last five weeks.  One of the highlights has been the oft-delayed but just as often spoken of Castle Crashers, from Behemoth. You know those guys. They made the good but somewhat flawed Alien Hominid.
It’s a crying shame then, that with as much [...]

In the last couple of days I’ve seen a couple of gaming sites running articles that rumour or predict the ‘next-gen’ of consoles, such as this Joystiq bit that rumours a Halo 4 in development and that it might be a launch title for a new Xbox console. Admittedly a new Halo game could take [...]