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Well, not exactly…
“Er, what?”
I was minding my own business, alternating between playing Saints Row (since Xbox LIVE has been brought back online earlier today) and following CNBC [GE] coverage of the ongoing financial disaster, when I inadvertently flipped to a random TV channel and saw Felicia dressed in a funny blue shirt and white pants.
“Huh? [...]
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Earlier, we’d reported the Xbox LIVE service interruption for system maintenance purposes, as well as to prepare for the upcoming new Xbox LIVE Experience software upgrade.
A scant couple of hours ago, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE game service became available again, after a bit more than one (1) day’s worth of outage.
N.B.
Other related Javamancy posts (in reverse chronological [...]
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While the (non-)news about “Halo 3: Keep It Clean” roared onto the scene early last week and continued throughout, until the Xbox LIVE outage earlier today, the more surreptitiously released Halo 3 Title Update 2 (affectionately acronym’ed as “TU2″ by Bungiers themselves) came online on 9/23/2008…
Even I hadn’t realized the relevance of this that day, [...]
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Larry Hryb (“Major Nelson” of Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox Live fame) had posted earlier that the downtime for Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com is:
A preparatory exercise for the still-coming-soon new Xbox LIVE experience that was demo’ed during this year’s game conferences (like E3);
Impacting both the Xbox LIVE service and the “My Xbox” section of Xbox.com only;
Not introducing [...]
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As previously announced, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com will be experiencing downtime, presumably for system maintenance, synchronization, and upgrades– in about one minute.
What remains to be seen are:
When are the systems coming back online (one day downtime?), and will they be available at the same time?
What are the new features, and how warm will [...]
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The Setup
For several months, there have been rumors that, in addition to Halo Wars, there would be another Halo game, in the same vein as the blockbuster Halo 3. Was it all wishful thinking on the parts of the unwashed Halo gunners out there? Or was it a carefully orchestrated PR campaign by the Precursors-That-Be [...]
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Er– What?
Happy birthday to a game?!?
Sure, why not?
The Bungie Blockbuster’s Birthday
Last year on this day, Bungie’s major blockbuster FPS was released to much anticipation, with the start of the long gamer lines in front of stores and the subsequent absenteeism at many companies across the U.S. and the world.
This year, in a more [...]
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Up and Down: Upcoming Downtime
On September 29, 2008, starting at 12:01 AM PT (3:01 AM ET), Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com will be shut down for system upgrades and other changes for approximately a day. Those of you who frequent the Xbox 360 Dashboard may have noticed the system bulletin concerning this.
Keep in mind that quite [...]
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The Setup
Awhile ago, I used to frequent the Coventry neighborhood in Cleveland, and hanging around Revolution Records and the Arabica coffeehouse were the fun things to do. It was important for me to get out to Arabica from time to time, to gab with the folks that went there so I could gauge their musical [...]
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A Little Bit:
Felicia, the Cheetos Girl, took some time to post about her House M.D. appearance on her blog.
N.B.
For you “Twits” out there ( ), there’s always Felicia’s twitter to check out.
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