As an English major and wannabe fiction writer, I just had to post this as news.
It’s been a rough day for me. After a five year run, my favorite comic book, Y: The Last Man, just ended and my Xbox 360 red ringed. Pretty bad, right? It’s just been turned around by a piece of fan fiction written by a nine-year-old set in the Half-life 2 universe.
Continued…It was a big year for videogaming – the console war began to cool down, some great games were released, World of Warcraft was expanded, and Jack Thompson is facing disbarment.
Here are my picks for top gaming news stories of 2007.
Mar. 14: Games for Windows – LIVE launches
There are a few problems with Microsoft’s PC-based version of Xbox Live. For one thing, it costs money – PC gamers didn’t have to deal with that issue until now. Second, you need Windows Vista to use it – and very few people are willing to install Vista, which has a variety of problems.
May 18: StarCraft II announced
The biggest gaming news story of the year: StarCraft II, the sequel to the seminal RTS and Best Game Ever Written, is announced at the Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, South Korea. Nick “Tasteless” Plott’s head explodes. Continued…
The Internet is like a smörgåsbord. A smörgåsbord where 7 out of 10 dishes are porn.
And you thought your 360 overheated…
The good kind of grafitti
Video: Halo 3 suicide by bank shot
I thought there already was a World of Warcraft Social Network — it’s called World of Warcraft
Video: If Azeroth were run like a multinational corporation
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According to press reports, a senior Microsoft exec dumped $9.2 million in shares shortly before the software giant announced its $1 billion warranty extension on faulty Xbox 360 consoles.
The stock sales by Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division, are spurring speculation of insider trading. The sales were not properly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The announcement did not in fact affect Microsoft stock severely; shares closed only 2% down the Monday following the announcement.
As many as 30% of the consoles may suffer fatal crashes due to a design flaw.
Via GamePolitics and Ars Technica.
Console mod guru Ben Heck took apart his Xbox 360 Elite recently and, lo and behold, it has some beefier cooling hardware than the original.
Many speculated that red ring issues and other crashes in the original Xbox 360 were due to heat or defective solder, so let’s hope that these changes help prevent the problems in the future.
Check out the picture:
The plastic heat pipe is the same as before, but the heatsinks got a pretty major upgrade.
See Ben Heck’s site for the full report.
