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

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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 4th, 2010

The Big Three of indie startegy games on sale as a set

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
The Big Three of indie startegy games on sale as a set

Through March 9th, you can get a great three-fer deal on a set of wonderful innovative strategy games. Fifty dollars buys you Solium Infernum (pictured), AI War , and Gratuitous Space Battles , all pretty much one-man operations, all very different from each other, and all well worth playing. You can go here... »

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Microsoft Starts Talking About the Windows Phone Developer Story

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Microsoft Starts Talking About the Windows Phone Developer Story

From Microsoft: Since Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 7 Series at MWC in February, I know you’ve heard a lot of “stay tuned to MIX for more details.” Well here’s a peek at some of those details Microsoft is addressing today. To help set the tone leading into MIX, Microsoft is sharing some important... »

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Heavy Rain vs. Deadly Premonition: Round Two

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Heavy Rain vs. Deadly Premonition: Round Two

Heavy Rain takes a while to ramp up. It takes its dear sweet time introducing three characters. It's not clear who they are, much less their relationship to each other »

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What if Bioshock used the Doom 2 engine?

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
What if Bioshock used the Doom 2 engine?

Jean-Paul LeBreton is a level designer for Bioshock and Bioshock 2 . He's just reworked Arcadia, the undersea forest from the first game, using the Doom 2 engine. Yeah, Doom 2 »

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What it looks like when you suck at Modern Warfare 2

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

In the above greatest hits compilation, you can enjoy favorites like the oblivious sniper, the hapless dude killed by a dropped care package, the "Where did he go? »

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Just Cause 2 demo raises hell thirty minutes at a time

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Just Cause 2 demo raises hell thirty minutes at a time

If you thought it was hard enough to wait for the release of Just Cause 2 on March 23rd, wait until you try the demo, which was just released on Xbox Live. It's not only a generous wide-open expanse of destruction, chaos, and motor scooters. I've found a very volatile gas station, a... »

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SimCity has a starring role in Grand Rapids development scam

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
SimCity has a starring role in Grand Rapids development scam

A real estate developer has submitted a fishy development plan for Grand Rapids, Michigan that includes a hydrogen power plant, represented by a screenshot from SimCity 4 . As you can see, the proposed hydrogen power plant will be built at the edge of the map so that it won't mess up any... »

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Ambitious new career opportunities coming to The Sims 3

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Ambitious new career opportunities coming to The Sims 3

Although The Sims 3 opened up the lives of your sims considerably by dropping them into a wide-open town, the career stuff was mostly offscreen. When your sim went to work, she just disappeared into a building. You could choose from a menu how hard your sim would work, and from time to... »

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