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Posts Tagged ‘monoculture’

Xbox DEAD OR ALIVE

In Entertainment on 1 January 2008 tagged Entertainment, Games, live, Microsoft, monoculture, movies, Video, Xbox360 with no comments

No, no, it’s still kinda broken… Worse, I tried watching The Bourne Ultimatum on the HD-DVD player and it crapped-out halfway through the movie. There was an available update for the HD-DVD player which I didn’t dare apply because of all the wonkiness. After some cursing and wringing of the remote, I pulled the disc [...]

Xbox it’s aLIVE!

In Entertainment on 1 January 2008 tagged Entertainment, Games, live, Microsoft, monoculture, Xbox360 with no comments

Well, sort of. We were still having some issues with it last night, but prod and I were able to sign in (and stay signed in) until the wee small hours playing Halo. I made it to level 30 in Team Doubles! So, thanks Major Nelson and the hard-working team(s) at Microsoft’s super-sekrit Xbox LIVE [...]

Xbox DEAD

In Entertainment on 31 December 2007 tagged conspiracy, doomsday, Entertainment, Games, live, Microsoft, monoculture, storm, theories, wild-eyed, Xbox360 with no comments

Got back from the East last night after a harrowing drive through wintery conditions to settle into my couch for some much-needed Xboxing with my homeys. Prod and I managed to play a couple games of Virtua Fighter 5 before getting unceremoniously dropped from Xbox Live. At first I figured it was local network problems [...]