In case you hadn’t noticed yet, the Halo 4 Majestic Map Pack is now available.
Download it now for your Xbox 360! Who has it already and who is getting it?
Category Archive: Entertainment
Halo 4 Majestic Map Pack Now Available!
Peench |
February 25, 2013
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Gears of War Judgment – Baird’s Goggles
Peench |
February 22, 2013
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I’m not sure how many of you are Gears of War fans, but I got a stack of codes for the avatar item Baird’s Goggles. Here’s what his goggles look like:
They’ll look even more awesome on your Xbox Live Avatar. Here’s one code to get you all started:
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Post a comment if you want me to keep them coming. Like I said, I’ve got a stack of them so feel free to add them to your Avatar and let your friends know that I have more to share. Enjoy!!
Sony PS4 Announcement
Peench |
February 20, 2013
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So it looks like some of the info we posted previously was correct, including the controller. Here are some of my notes from the announcement to get the discussion rolling. What are your thoughts and comments?
Also, you can thank me for watching this press conference for you. OMG! Did anyone else think it was incredibly slow and not very moving?
Playstation Promise: Simple, Personalization, Immediate, Integrated, Social
Focused on gamers but platform for other stuff?
Sharing experiences, connectivity between devices and ease of connection
Expand vita’s stuff
Expand titles and programs, instant game collection and day 1 digital
Living room no longer the center
How does next gen gamer want to play
Want to change gaming landscape – mobility, mobility, mobility…
Access to entertainment, social media and more = new platform?
Accessing content better and most personalized gaming experience
Socially enriched content
Leading authority on play – gamers think playstation is best place to play
Explain how PS3 was connected and changed the type of system gamers used, and then focus back on games?
X86cpu, Enhanced PC GPU, 8 GB Unified memory, local storage HDD, GDDR5 for system memory
Controller looks like the one that was leaked – new features, touch pad for input, share button and headphone jack, light bar as more friendly way to ID players, designed w/ stereo camera to track position of controller via light bar. Share button on controller is central
Power button enters low power state – no longer booting, etc. – more like hibernation
Digital titles playable even as they are being downloaded
Social play is important, added hardware to support it, always on video compression and decompression systems
Transitioning to friends network based on real world friends, keeping alias and icon for anonymity, but most of new social dimensions will be interacting with friends from existing social networks. Applications on smart phones, tablets, web platforms and Vita to allow gaming experience to carry beyond living room.
System can get to know you and bring you closer to games you want to play. System learns your likes and dislikes and discover content PRELOADED on your console (WTF?). Vision to download titles before you even have a chance to tell them you want the game?
Want to have a connected experience. Gamer at center of playstation network. Delivery of what gamers want most from their entertainment experience. Fastest, most powerful network in the world.
Try it now feature of any game in store. Instantly experience anything you want?
Buy only what you love? So you get the game free and only pay if you like the game?
Facebook and UStream are partnering up with them. Create first social gaming network for gaming.
Spectating on games. This feature was on OnLive. Use share button on PS4 controller. Can broadcast from your game live to your friends. Friends can post comments to your screen. Ask your friend to take over your controller and assist. They’re “building” this into the system – not yet? New spectating tools for developers.
Enhancing their PS4 games on second screens. Key feature is remote play. It has been built into architecture of the hardware. PS vita is the ultimate companion device for PS4. Using full graphics of PS4 and taking advantage of PS Vita screen. Long term goal is to make all titles playable on the PS Vita.
PS3 titles are NOT natively supported on PS4 – exploring vision of making PS3 games (or any other PS games) playable on any device by using some sort of cloud device. Anything everywhere is the challenge and is vision of Playstation Cloud service.
POSSIBLE TITLES– at release?
Knack
Killzone Shadow Fall?
Drive Club – team based racing
Second Son – Sucker Punch’s exclusive title for PS4 – super powers, similar to infamous?
The Witness – from developer of Braid
Self-publishing on Playstation Network – smaller developers can bring breakthrough titles to PS gamers (then they showed The Witness) – how open will it be for other Indie developers?
Can get over 30,000 polygons – first attempt at using advanced stuff to permit real time rendering similar to CG films – quality they will get in future games
How many polygons were there in Halo4?
The Creative Console – Using the Move controller to create stuff in 3D via sculpting or collage and create sets, game levels, stories with the simplest possible interface. And to have a creepy dream where you control dolls having a rock concert or something.
The panty raid engine from Capcom can bring all sorts of new experiences
Developers think this is an easy platform to program for…
The game Watch Dogs looks pretty freaking awesome
From Bungie – Destiny will be on PS4 and PS3. Exclusive playable content just for Playstation community
Bungie Tour
Peench |
February 19, 2013
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One of the other Xbox MVPs (kilam0mjaro) is friends with the community manager at Bungie and set up a tour for us tonight. It was pretty awesome.
Here are some photos:
Have you all seen the Destiny video? It looks like a pretty bad ass epic sci-fi space romp. What do you all think?
Redbox Instant by Verizon
LobbycastGeoff |
February 12, 2013
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Redbox Instant by Verizon is the newest of arrivals into the streaming video arena. Most people are well familiar with the RedBox brand, having seen or rented movies or games from one of it’s over 43,000 kiosks, but will that be enough to ensure success? Only time will tell.
Fans of Netflix Instant Watch will feel very comfortable with the Redbox Instant interface. It is easy to navigate and sort through titles and streaming is fast and responsive. I tested streaming both through the PC and through the Android app on my Droid Razr Maxx. ‘Kevin Smith Burn in Hell’ and ‘Faces in the Crowd’ were the two movies I chose for the review.
The issues I had at this point, while easily remedied, did color my experience a bit. I started the Kevin Smith show on the PC, while simultaneously streaming ‘Faces’ on my phone. No issues so far. I stopped both and then attempted to resume each movie on the other device, which was a little more trouble. There were issues on both with accessing the licensing server. I had to sign out and back in on my phone to alleviate the problem and I had to back out and re-try a couple of times on the PC to get the video to resume. This is something that I see as either not happening to everyone or something that will be fixed well before the beta test is over.
Redbox’s ace in the hole is that their subscriptions ($8/$9 per month) include four free rental tokens at their kiosks. You pay an extra dollar for access to Blu-ray rentals. This is a great deal for people who already rent an average of a movie a week. If you are a movie lover, this is definitely a good way to go, especially once the service gets implemented into more devices. According to the press release, “At launch, Redbox Instant by Verizon will be offered via the web, as well as through home entertainment, tablet and mobile devices, including iOS®, Android™, Samsung® Blu-ray Players and TVs with SmartHub™, LG Smart TV and Blu-ray Players, and Google TV. More devices will be announced in the coming months.” The Xbox 360 has been named as the exclusive gaming console for the service.
The challenge Redbox Instant will have is that people have gotten used to being able to stream TV shows and movies through one service. I really love the idea of the rental credits, but I would never be able to replace Netflix with this service. They would have to exist side by side for me. What I fear would happen at that point is that I would only be using the rental credits and that the streaming would go unused, much like the Amazon Instant Video that I get for free with my Prime subscription.
All in all, it is a good service, as long as you are aware of it’s pros and cons. I give it a thumbs up.