Microsoft Defense Force

Bye!

Well well well, just what do we have here. This story hasn’t got the most exposure over the last few weeks… but if anyone knows just exactly what went into developing the Cell Broadband Engine, will be shaking their heads right now.

The Cell processor was being dubbed as the next big step in micro-processing technology… the big cheese of the computing world. It was going to be the game changer. The world wide web was filling up with all sorts of mythical, magical uses… it was going to be in your phones, your microwaves, your AM radio…

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"Oh hai GT5. Lets be friends"

What to think about Gran Turismo. Granted, it’s a realistic racer… and a good quality one. We ain’t going to knock that. But, looking a little deeper… it clearly gives an insight into just what the hell is going on over at Sony Worldwide Studios. The game has been in the making for around 4 years now… and has cost a whopping $60 Million to make. (continue reading…)

One of my good friends has taken the time to send me a look, to what appears to be Sony summed up in 2 minutes and 31 seconds.

The Onion have created this video for your viewing pleasure – and even Sony lovers and product owners agree, this video has some, if not a lot, if not complete validity to the message it’s getting across here.

View original video link: The Onion

Thanks Nadia for sending this to me!

"I've smoked THIS many in the past 5 minutes!"

Well, fuck me.

If this doesn’t paint a picture of how bad things are over at PlayStation – nothing will. Even here at MDF we know that Nintendo, the way things are going, are unbeatable (unless Microsoft REALLY do something drastic to even the score… oh, I don’t know, say buy 51% of Nintendo). We know that no matter what anyone says, about how Nintendo are not in the same category as Microsoft and Sony in an attempt to soften the blow that the underdog became king, they’re in the same game and they’re in it to win it – like the rest of us.

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Just a quick note to wish all our readers a great Xmas and all the best for the new year.

It’s also great to see that XBOX LIVE didn’t go AWOL this Xmas and that all the nay-sayers have been silenced who doubted the LIVE network capabilities.

Hope you have a good one!

XCM Cross Battle Adapter

If your a PlayStation 3 owner, and don’t have an XBOX 360 or used an XBOX 360 (which makes us wonder why you’re here), then the XCM Cross Battle Adapter is now giving you the chance to experience the luxury, comfort and happiness that the XBOX 360 controller has to offer. It’s hard not to agree that the XBOX 360 has had more thought crafted into it’s comfortable curves – hardcore gamers know that playing intense games for long periods of time isn’t going to give them arthritis in the long run.

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For the longest time I have been holding off writing anything about PlayStation Home. I wanted to give it a little time for things to level out before I was to make an statement about what this service is about. Over the past few weeks, it has started to become clear to the Microsoft Defense Force what is to be expected of this service, on the inferior PlayStation Network.

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Concept Render of Zune 3

Many XBOX hopefuls have been eagerly awaiting the announcement of an XBOX related handheld gaming system. Rumours and speculation about this has been floating around the tubes for quite some time now – however, nothing has ever been confirmed or ever materialised. It would seem the obvious thing to do considering that both Nintendo and Sony are battling it out in the handheld arena from a gamers point of view (with Sony being pounded over and over and over and over again), but we understand that this may not be the right time to enter the handheld market to begin with. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why.

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Stumbled across an interesting article titled “The Best and Worst Tech Products of 2008″ by Christopher Null over at Yahoo! Tech blogs. With Rock Band 2 being 2nd in the list of the best technologies of 2008. Does it surprise you? Supported by Microsoft’s LIVE infrastructure set-up, this game has had the amazing support it needed to distribute new music and content out to their gamers to keep playing the same games with different content. We believe that Sony has their own, massively inferior network… I’m not sure, PSN or somethin’.

What’s more important about this blog post however is the list of worse technologies of 2008. No. 1? Blu-ray. Well cover me in bling and call me Krazy Ken Kuturagi. Why does this not surprise me. After the public being force-fed a new, expensive, unknown and confusing media platform – you can expect people to be a little pissed.

As Chris Null states “there’s a very loud and vocal minority that insists that Blu-ray will be a huge success. The market indicates otherwise.” Some good reading.

Click to launch the Yahoo! Tech Blog article in a new window.

Sir Chimpalot

Today, semi-famed games developer Free Radical Design, has shut its doors. It shut its doors for good. Shut its doors for good – and changed the locks, as employees discovered this morning. It was only later on that employees were called in a meeting to discover the fate of Free Radical Design.

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