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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: September 01, 2012, 12:10:59 PM »

I'm 20 I don't remember any of that stuff.

And I'm not sure how that is reflective on a good product today.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: September 01, 2012, 10:12:13 AM »

IE has been solid since 8 and IE9 and IE10 reviewing really well. Not only that but the Internet Explorer team has been pretty active when it comes to pushing HTML5 content. That and IE10 is one of the only broswers out to support multii touch gestures in broswer.

 http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/08/09/with-internet-explorer-10-pulse-comes-to-the-web.aspx
 http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/08/29/atari-online-ie-brings-classic-games-to-the-web-with-html5-and-multi-touch.aspx
 http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/07/24/a-new-way-to-window-shop-the-web.aspx
 http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/05/16/now-recruiting-for-weyland-industries-internet-explorer-partners-with-fox-for-prometheus-movie.aspx

Too bad past iterations of IE has given it a bad name.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 31, 2012, 09:36:25 PM »

Lack of research on my part regarding crackle. Still great service if you can take raw anime.


Also it looks like the dashboard beta has really started. I was already in and had Intenet exploer the new dashboar, and the new music and video apps. But today I got a beta tab saying the beta had started and that this would be the area to look for preview games and apps.

Looked in it and saw the beta for microsofts first free to play moba style game Happy Wars which shoukd be launching sometime next month.


Hope they suprise us with a Halo 4 beta.

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General Gaming / Re: What is your most recent gaming purchase?

« on: August 31, 2012, 03:41:11 PM »

The Walking Dead game episoide 3.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 31, 2012, 02:58:43 PM »

Just saw that PS3 is getting NFL Sunday ticket. Microsoft probably won't get it because of their other deals.


I'm just hoping one of the consoles are abe to get MLS live next season.

But blu-ray aside I think Microsoft is better as they activly go out and try to get new applications and content compared to sony.

Also I honestly don't see how the interface of the PS3 is good for anything non gaming. Thr broswer is slow as hell and its missing features that should be on this type of device.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 31, 2012, 09:19:03 AM »

Personally prefer using kinect/voice to a controller (NUI FTW) but that aside content is a big factor. I find it odd a company with media ties like sony can't get apps and other things that microsoft can't. I mean sony owns crackle and the PS3 doesn't have a crackle while the 360 does.

This past month I've
Watched the Curiosty landing
Watched the Gamescon cod blops 2 mutiplayer Panel
Watched the republican National Convention

All Live from my xbox with the live player app. Even watched all the E3 confrences through the live player and IGN apps.

In other news MS announced a price drop on its family bundle
 
 http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/pd/Xbox-360-4-GB-Console/productID.253888000


It was $474 but now its $299 which will probably be the starting price for the Wii U. It comes with
 Xbox 360 4 GB Console with Kinect
Kinect Sports: Season Two Xbox 360 Game for Kinect
Xbox LIVE 12-Month Gold Membership
Xbox 360 Media Remote
Xbox 360 HDMI Cable (6.5 foot)
Hulu Plus 3-Month Subscription for New or Existing Customers


Also there seems to be leaked renders of the new Nokia phones ahead of nokia world. I'm really hoping microsoft let's Nokia or the Surface team desgin the casing for the next xbox.

Lumia 920 with Pureview (4.5 inch display)


Such a good design. It curves the current lumia design while taking cues from the 5th and 6th gen ipod nano.

Lumia 820 (4.2 inch display)


Have to say I lament the death of the 3 inch phone. The Iphone was the only other hold out and it looks to be also going big as well.

Was also kind of hoping that one of the Pureview phones would be based around the funky desgin of the pureview 808.


I'm wondering if nokia is going to go with the full on 41 mp camera lens and sensor. (In testing it killed most point and shoots and was better than any camera phone around) or go with say 20 mp camera.  But none of that matters when the phone is probably going to be crappy att exclusive meaning I have to go with the 820 or another oem.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 30, 2012, 10:28:55 PM »

Hey now I love all my other tech companies as well. I just give extra love to Nintendo and microsoft.

Oh the 720 will be marketed as more than just a gaming device for better or worse. The 360 is already being marketed as one and most tech blogs talk about in that sense.

During E3 more time was spent on xbox media than Halo 4.

Also look back to interviews with Bill Gates and J Allard about the OG Xbox. They always wanted it to be their ticket to owing the living room and games was just a trojan horse as stuff like roku and apple TV were still ideas.

But no I'm not that worried. Sony's overextention comes from the hardware and not the software. They have two many divisons that all develop crazy amounts of products that overlap and aren't the market leader in anything any more. Sucks as sony has been making some really cool hardware lately but the dimished brand awarness and usualy out pricing themselves out of the market hinders them.

Only hardware divisons that microsoft have are the Surface team, Xbox hardware, Kinect team, Pixelsense, R&D (unrealesed stuff and mouse and keyboards), and maybe a few minor other ones. Microsoft has the benefit of having a lot of people make hardware for them.

 http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=478668

Thread about the leaked document that goes into detail about what to expect. Guys who happen to be pretty in the know as far as microsoft news goes (Paul Thurroht, Tom Warren, sigh Patcher) pretty much said its pretty close to what they have been hearing.

Plus we've seen microsoft

-All of Microsoft's Entertainment services being rebranded xbox across the whole ecosystem.
-The Major push at E3 about smartglass and the entertaiment features.
-Partnering with major cable companies to have the xbox work with their services (uverse,xfinity,fios)
-wanting to start a zune pass all you can eat style subscription for televison as it comes out. As well as trying to suscribe by a per channel basis.
-At one point working on its own production deal like netflix is doing with lillyhammer and arrested development. At one point they were in serious talks about Conan doing his show on xbox live.

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General Chat / Re: Comic Books

« on: August 30, 2012, 08:20:26 AM »

Batman is still Snyder and Capullo. Cloonan drew issue #12 because Capullo wanted a break and the issue doesn't focus on batman. Capullo is going to be back on next month. The same goes for catwoman. The wruiter has stayed the same and the artist has only been filled in usually with a similar artist.

And Animal Man already changed Artists halfway through.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 30, 2012, 08:14:57 AM »

But the average person doesn't use an RSS feed. (Or not in the tradtional sense) or use steam for that matter.

While you may may dislke it for most people its more of a plus. But I di understand where you are coming from in that you only want to see what you have.

Eh guess I'd rather just have that stuff on my homescreen. One of the things I like about the comixology windows 8 live tile is that it currently just shows different series but after the offical launch with the store the live tile will cycle showing new comics and sales for the week.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 29, 2012, 08:33:56 PM »

But its all content that is on the xbox.

Its like complaining about the nexus 7 default homescreen.

Take yesterday. I turned on my xbox and one of the "ads" on the home tab was for the new mass effect dlc.  I thought it was out next month but it was this week. Threw $10 on my account and bought it.

Just think its a waste of enegry to get in a tiff about it. When I start seeing ads on windows I'll be somewhat worried, and even then the general public probaby doesn't care

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General Chat / Re: Comic Books

« on: August 29, 2012, 07:01:58 PM »

I've recently cut way down on books because I have about a thousand issues of books that I haven't read yet. I'm not buying anything new outside of megaman until I read at least half of what I have stashed in my closet. I have two or three years worth of marvel/dc continuity stuff I haven't even touched. I'm much more of an indie guy though. Not in a pretentious sort of way. I can just only handle so many super hero stories at a time.

i'm def a cape guy and that probably has to do with me being sort of new to comics in general.\
 
Read the first arc of megaman and loved. Kind of sad that its the only way to get a megaman fix now in days but i'm hoping its popularity gives renewed intrest in the games. can't wait for the crossover with sonic.
 
Also im all digital by the way.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 29, 2012, 06:28:38 PM »

Yeah, I'm considering the game and content promotion as ads. For games it's not really an issue, but I get annoyed by all the cross promotion of media stuff that I am not remotely interested in. Really, I want the ability to turn that off without keeping the system offline. I paid for the console, and its the absolute last way I'd ever search for information, so I resent having ads for Battleship avatar hats and ESPN in my face. If Xbox Live was free, on the other hand, there wouldn't really be any room for complaint.

I understand where your coming from. You just want something tailored to your tastes. Like somehow removing all the other tabs expect gaming and stuff that intrest you. While I use all of the different hubs and don't mind those as I use all of them at somepoint during the week.
hopefully the Xbox 720 dashboard will allow for more customization like the Win8 and WP8 homescreens do.

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General Chat / Comic Books

« on: August 29, 2012, 06:25:37 PM »

So anyone else read comic books. If so this is the place to talk. From Marvel and DC to Indies its al; here.
Anywho these are the books I currently read and keep up with.
Action Comics
Animal Man
Earth 2
Green Arrow
Swamp Thing
Batman
Frankenstien agent of shade
Batwoman
Green Lantern: New Guardians
Justice League Dark
I,Vampire
Teen Titans
Captian Marvel
Fatale
 
was reading before ended
Omac
Justice League International
 
thinking of adding to my pull list
Superman
Justice League
FF
sword and socery
 
as you can see im a big DC fan.
 
Looks to be a Good time to be a comics fan with Year 2 of the DCnu starting in October and Marvel Now shaking things up.



 



 

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 29, 2012, 05:55:30 PM »

sry thought you were implying ad's as bad.
Any who these are pictures of the new Dashboard UI. sorry for the crappy quality as I took them with my 3DS. (all other cameras were out)
 
 
























https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=EB6AF1AFF832E02D!211
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=EB6AF1AFF832E02D!212
 
 

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 29, 2012, 04:57:09 PM »

I understand. But I don't see the problem with it. There are non xbox related ads I hate, but things like telling me what new game is out or what new movie is out is a plus.

I just find it odd that people complain about that but then complain about how console makers don't market games enough.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 29, 2012, 04:27:57 PM »

So I should be complaining that microsoft is showing me content avaible within the device.

Smh

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 29, 2012, 02:50:45 PM »

Well quite a few windows devices and news were announced.

First off Unreal Engine 3 has been confrimed to be working with WinRT and the metro development cycle.

 http://m.engadget.com/2012/08/29/nvidia-epic-unreal-engine-windows-rt/?icid=eng_latest_art

Samsung also announced a few devices starting with the Windows Phone 8 Ativ-s.

Inside the crazy-thin 8.7mm brushed aluminum chassis is a huge 4.8” HD Super AMOLED display made from Corning Gorilla Glass 2 (read: tough to break, but still light)and a rundown of killer specs: 1.5Ghz dual-core processor, 1GB of onboard RAM, and an 8MP autofocus rear camera and 1.9MP front-facing camera. You’ll have the choice of two storage capacities – 16GB or 32GB – and both models have a MicroSD slot for expanded storage. Backing all of this up is a massive 2300mAh battery to keep you rocking all day.

Ativ PC and PC pro

The difference between the two tablets lies in the processors inside: the Smart PC runs an Intel Atom chip, while the Smart PC Pro uses the more powerful Intel Core i5 processor. The Pro also has more storage (256GB SSD vs. 128GB flash memory), more RAM (4GB vs. 2GB), and a USB 3.0 port in place of the Smart PC's lone USB 2.0 port. The Smart PC is slightly thinner than the Pro — 9.9mm vs. 11.9mm — and it gets 13.5 hours of battery life compared to the Pro's eight hours. Both tablets come with microHDMI ports and miniSD card slots, and the keyboard docks include two extra USB 2.0 ports.

The Ativ Smart PC and Smart PC Pro run Windows 8 and support Samsung's S Pen input device with 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity. They come preloaded with Samsung's S Note app that works with the S Pen and support 10-finger multitouch on their HD displays.

Ativ TAb

the product is officially named the Samsung ATIV Tab. In terms of specs, we've learned that the device will be powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 2GB of RAM, with a mid-size 8,200mAh battery keeping everything going. Its 10.1-inch display will offer a resolution of 1366 x 768, and users will have a choice of either 32GB or 64GB of internal storage.

Alongside the standard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, the ATIV Tab will provide connectivity through a USB 2.0 port and NFC. The unit as a whole weights in at 570g and measures 0.35 inches at its thickest point.

As well new windows 8 versions of their current laptop line up.

From Asus we got

The Vivo tab and VivoRt

Asus has revealed today that it has renamed its Asus Tablet 600 and Asus Tablet 810 models into a new Vivo Tab range. The Tablet 600, which runs Windows RT and includes an Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU, will now be known as the Vivo Tab RT without any specification changes from what was announced at Computex earlier this year.

The Tablet 810, which includes an Intel Atom processor and runs Windows 8, will now be known as the Vivo Tab. Again, Asus hasn't tweaked the specifications here. Both tablets will include a Transformer-like dock that features keyboard, trackpad, a second battery, and room for two USB ports. Asus isn't revealing pricing or availability for either models

And a new Zenbook

Asus has expanded its Zenbook laptop line in more ways than one with the announcement of the U500VZ, a large model with a 15-inch screen and full numpad. Featuring an Intel Core i7 processor as standard, the U500VZ offers a number of customization options, with users able to choose between dual SSDs with a capacity of up to 512GB or a combination of a 128GB SSD and a 500GB HDD

From Sony we have

The sony vaio 11

It's got a pressure-sensitive digitizer with a choice of two pen tips for writing feel, an 11.6-inch 1920 x 1080 "OptiContrast" panel, 4GB or 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB or 256GB SSD stuffed into a shell that measures 17.85mm when collapsed and weighs 1.3 kilograms (about 2.9 pounds) — a little heavier than the Surface for Windows 8 Pro's 1.99 pounds.

Speaking of Windows 8 Pro, the Duo 11 is a Pro device, carrying an Intel Core i7, i5, or i3 processor depending on configuration — there's no Windows RT here and no sign that Sony is planning an RT variant (yet). Look for it to launch in late October, just in time to capture the first wave of Windows 8 retail launches.

The vaio tap 20


Pretty much a coffe table style panel running windows 8

And Nokia is teasing about its windows phone event next week. All bets are on a pureview windows phone.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 29, 2012, 09:53:14 AM »

Metro is better than xmb because you can control it with voice and motion. I bought the latest episoide of the walking dead game without touching my controller. Voice search is awesome.


And I'm in the beta for the new dashboard and they fixed us usability with a controller. (Though it isn't hard just to press the rb and lb to get around.  Will post pictures later.

And nokia has started teasing its next windows phone stuff and more windows 8 devices are going to be announced at ifa berlin this week.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 28, 2012, 07:08:57 PM »

Even then I think Windows 8 will grab good portion of the tablet market. Not as much as apple mind you but a good 2nd place.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 28, 2012, 05:16:00 PM »

I have been hearing the whole microsoft is dying thing for the past five years now.yet everything tangible tells us that this is the excat opposite . The entertaiment division is doing really well. The office divison is doing good with mutiple revenue streams. Windows 8 is projected to do better than windows 7 and is the first major shift in trying to converge computing. Windows phone is looking to grab the #3 spot away from rim. And Microsoft probably has the most invested next to google in the growing cloud sector with skydrive and azure.

Would be a shame if microsoft died as they in recent times have been very consumer and dev friendly.

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: August 27, 2012, 10:15:16 PM »

Eh pretty sure I would be considered a hipster.

*go listens to my grimes/asap rocky playlist*

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 27, 2012, 08:31:18 AM »

I'd rather cut the cord legally instead of being one of the reasons why companies are tighting their vice grip.  Plus with that I can't look at past games and highlights as well as setting reminders for what I want and having a feed of my favorite sports.

Also I'll never get the uber nerdy thing of "hur hur" Why use an xbox swhen you can watch it on your pc or ipad. Why wouldn't I want to watch TV content on a bigger screen given the chance (ppi be damned). Also using stuff like a htpc sucks because the interface isn't desgined for TV in mind like the apps are on home devices.

Plus there is a rumor going around about xbox live getting updated again with a third teir that's $qpp. Its supposed to include a year of xbox music along with the gaming stuff and maybe a sub to a TV show.

Also Xbox live on Windows 8 is free and really good.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 27, 2012, 12:03:30 AM »

But brah attracting customers is an added revenue stream.

Don't have cable currently and the Xbox allows me to view ESPN3 content for free and in the fall its going to be all espn streamed content. That alone is worth $50 to me and that's not considering the other serives on the console.

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General Gaming / Re: Xbox720 - that's 2 full revolutions - not till 2014? ~Rumor/Speculation Thread~

« on: August 25, 2012, 10:58:18 AM »

Does Chozo Ghost want the Next Xbox to fail?

If you have to pay to play it online, sure.

I wouldn't be suprised if sony decided to charge for online next gen.

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: August 24, 2012, 09:09:44 PM »

Will use MS next time.

And there is little indication that Rare will be shut down. In fact their is more to suggest they will stay open with Microsoft is increasing their out put and Phil Harrison being the head of Microsoft Studios Europe now. Not only that but Rare crates all of the avatar crap and works on a lot of the kinect tech for gaming alongside the main kinect team and the Microsoft fusion labs. That and Rarest last two games have sold really well.

But crazier things have happened.?