Microsoft Defense Force

It's OK, you can have a quick peek

I’ve just been over at Kotaku’s house. They certainly did have some news going down over there. See that picture there? It’s what appears to be Windows Mobile 7. Do you see what else is there? XBOX Live. As Kotaku put it… that’s some tight integration, right on the home screen. Hot.

World Mobile Congress is happening today, soon. We’ll write something soon when more details about this platform synergy emerges.

"The End"

“I think you knew deep down that someday soon this would happen…” Said XBOX Live to Daddy XBOX. They were sat at a table in a cold, concrete room with fluorescent lighting.

Daddy XBOX just sat there… looking down. Quietly contemplating a response, but knew it was the wrong thing to do. About 20 seconds pass by… the silence getting louder as every second passed by.

Daddy XBOX: “… so, when”

XBOX Live (immediately cuts in): “April 15th.”

Daddy XBOX: “…”

Daddy XBOX starts walking to the door… slowly, with his head down. Just as he opens the door…

XBOX Live: “Listen, wait! …”

Daddy XBOX pauses, still with his head down and his hand on the door handle.

XBOX Live: “You’ve had a good run. An amazing 8 year run… you showed the world just what can be achieved with online gaming on the home console. You paved the way for MILLIONS of happy gamers getting online… and you have set the standard forever. Your legacy is only going to get greater as time goes on. You should be proud of yourself…”

Daddy XBOX stays silent for a few seconds… thinking…. then continues opening the door to leave. Just as he turns around to close the door completely, he lifts his head up and smiles at XBOX Live.

The door closes.

Check out the video below of Sony’s latest financial urination

Even if you are a Sony PSN fan… some part of you can’t be agreeing to this. “Tester” is a PSN exclusive reality show, coming in the form of 10 unfortunately deluded individuals battling it out for a job at Sony as a games tester, over 8 episodes. That’s right… a games tester. If anyone knows the games industry, then they know that this is like being tested mentally and physically in a game show to win a lifetime of luxury… only to be thrown into a poverty-stricken slum in the far corner of the earth. (continue reading…)

I just kept forgetting about Blu-ray

Poor PSN. It’s just low-blow after low-blow with these guys. Poor online performace in all sectors, and now this. I mean it’s understandable, after what went into forcing themselves upon us without consent when Blu-ray came along. (continue reading…)

Check this rubbish out below.

Really? Are you being SERIOUS? Is this even REAL?! Have they got NOTHING BETTER to do than STATE THE OBVIOUS about an INTERNET BASED SERVICE?!

It must have been a seriously slow news day over at KDVR. So slow, that they allowed someone (Heidi Hemmat) with extremely poor editorial skills to go ahead and write and film this joke of an article. So why is it a joke of an article? Well lets start from the top. Actually, I’ve got a better idea. I’m going to copy and paste the article below – and rip it apart. (continue reading…)

You heard this?! The boy has been bitchin’ about Abode, and Google. Calling Adobe “lazy”, and Google’s motto (don’t be evnil) “bullshit”. That’s right lades and gentlemen… bullshit. Bull…shit. He said it. I mean after the whole fiasco with Google’s Eric Schmidt leaving Apple’s board of directors for obvious reasons (read: Nexus One), Apples top dog has gone off on one.

I won’t ruin if for you. Boy Genius has some more. Oh yeah, you know if you see that Steve Jobs? Tell him to stay off the crack.

Boy Genius – Steve Jobs disses Adobe and calls BS on Google

My mate Nick, quite rightly said last night “what’s the point” to my question of what he thought of the iPad over XBOX Live. Alot of other people are thinking exactly what Nick is thinking. What’s the point? It doesn’t even have a full web browser which, upon finding out, really ticked me off. I mean… that’s just adding insult to wanting the relatively taken for granted task of browsing the standard web. I know, I know… there are a million thousand reasons to not want a full web browser without flash and how iPhone OS is “absolutely perfect” so why use something different.

Not me however. Give me the HP Slate. Gizmodo written a crackin’ article, the “Slate Showdown“, which included a side-by-side comparison of the up-and-coming slate computers. I’ve included the side-by-side comparison after the break, or, you can check it out over at Gizmodo.

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"X: I'm BACK baby!"

It’s been a while since the last (non-Canadian) one, but X is back… and I’m sure it’s back for a damn good reason. Hot on the heals of our last article about the Zune uprising, I predict that this year’s “X” will bring playable Natal games, just games, and hopefully some information on my own prediction of the Zune service slowly taking over. (continue reading…)