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Friday, September 28, 2001 |  |
Gaming manager says Oct 9 in stores
Someone claiming to be a manager for a major US gaming chain showed up on TeamXbox's forum today with more info about the Xbox kiosks in game stores. Apparently, Microsoft is doing some retail training on October 8, and playable boxes will be moving into stores no later than the 9th. They're rolling out by state, and Texas and Georgia are two of the earliest. (Again, this is all unconfirmed... but it FEELS authentic. :) ) Farther down, he expounds a bit more - definitely worth a read. (Louis Wu 23:13:43 UTC) (permalink)
More Fiction in the coffers
The fighting heats up in the second installment of the 'New Wave' series by The Emperor - check out 'The Battle' in our Fan Fiction section. (Louis Wu 20:45:32 UTC) (permalink)
Graphics Gap
Not unexpected, or new, even... but something we should all keep in mind. Ferrex reminds us that PC hardware will NOT perform as well as Xbox hardware - Especially near the Xbox launch date. People shouldn't be expecting hardware in their machines today to play Halo (or any other Xbox game that comes out for the PC) anywhere near as nicely as the Xbox will. Something to keep in mind, if you're on the fence between which version to buy... (The consensus here is that the time gap between the versions will be great enough to warrant buying both.) (Louis Wu 17:49:12 UTC) (permalink)
OXM editor weighs in on updates
Hmm. This has been speculated before... but not, generally, by someone with the inside connections present here... Mike Salmon, Editor in Chief of the Official Xbox Magazine, answered a fan question on OXM's forum about the upgradeability of launch titles:
When MS goes online it will be in a big way and yes games that are releases at launch can be "upgraded" to include internet play.
Will Bungie make an online patch available for Xbox Halo down the road? We can only hope! (Louis Wu 16:39:09 UTC) (permalink)
Chosen, indeed.
raVen creates a new desktop for our Wallpaper section, in 4 flavors. We are unclean... Pax. (Crux Fidelis 12:53:00 UTC) (permalink)
So who's Damuis?
Hmm... our fearless leader seems to be napping - guess it's time to put the prayer blocks down.
A voice responded. As it spoke it became clear that it was not one voice but hundreds of voices, each one echoing into infinity.
"Damuis?"
Mr. Bill. Jr. V© drops us another story, introducing... well, read it. You'll find 'The Spirit' in our Fan Fiction section. Be sure to comment on it! Pax. (Crux Fidelis 12:38:38 UTC) (permalink)
Those kiosks are gonna show movies
For those following the story of Xbox kiosks appearing in stores in the last few days... it looks like your chances of playing Halo on them in the near future aren't very good. An Electronic Boutique employee posted the following tidbit to the usenet newsgroup alt.games.video.xbox today:
I work at EB and opened up our X-Box demo thingy and helped install it, only to find out that there was no X-Box in there, just a TV, two controlers, and the cool looking stand w/lited up posters and stuff.
There was a number for installation instructions that I called, and told them that we were missing our X-Box, they told me that the X-Box's would arrive "at a later date". They also told us that EB was the only stores that got these units today. Then I asked him what game would be in it, and he said as far as he knew it would be a video that showed previews of a bunch of different games, then "at a later date, closer to launch" we would get playable demos.
So, movies on the kiosks now, games 'at a later date'. Bummer. (Thanks to Harry Al-Shakarchi for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 00:39:51 UTC) (permalink)
Of Books and Men
Eric Trautmann, who popped up a couple of days ago with some interesting backstory info, has popped up again on the Marathon's Story forum with some clarifications of his job. He's part of the licensing team, so he interfaces with folks like Eric Nylund, who's writing 'The Fall of Reach', due out in October, and makes sure that the details work. As Eric (T.) says:
I'm also a fanboy geek who HATES it when tie-in products don't match the source material. Hence my annoyance about the timeline discrepancies between what goes into the book and what ends up on the website.
With zeal like this, the likelihood is good that the numbers will line up... as much as they're supposed to, by the time it all gets out through the proper channels. (Louis Wu 00:33:36 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's news in brief:
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Xbox Tech Overview at FiringSquad Mike Salmon on Halo's quality Blue is a beautiful color |
Wednesday's news in brief:
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Xbox poster gallery at TeamXbox I've got a worm(hole) in my brain This is a place for carnage. When Bots go Bad More Wallpaper 4 U |
