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Microsoft FAM 2010, Part 1: Microsoft’s Consumer Initiatives

By pthurrott

If you don't follow Microsoft closely, you may be surprised to discover that its annual one-day meeting with financial analysts, called the Microsoft... »

 

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Archive for March 2nd, 2010

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 waltzes with reviewers

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Electronic Arts has messed up a perfectly good Blue Danube Waltz montage by slapping onto it excerpts of breathlessly sloppy praise heaped on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , a plenty good but nowhere near to great game that's out today. It's quite good as a multiplayer game. »

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Alice in Wonderland meets Star Trek in the weird relaxing Flotilla

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Alice in Wonderland meets Star Trek in the weird relaxing Flotilla

Agent Sylvia Valdez of the Swan Police attacked after I'd covered for a crew member who murdered a diplomat. I helped him hide the body. »

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To what depths did EA go to promote Dante’s Inferno?

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
To what depths did EA go to promote Dante’s Inferno?

Adfreak.com has a postmortem of Electronic Arts' shenanigans to promote Dante's Inferno. Last year, the company set about trying to educate the public not only about the game but about a 14th-century literary classic and the very nature of human morality. What ensued was one of the most complex campaigns in video-game history,... »

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