XBox
Straight from John Carmack…..
Xbox 360: 'A really sweet develoment system'
"The Xbox 360 will probably will be id's primary development platform. As it is right now, we would get the game up on the 360. When I would do major hack-and-slash architectural changes it was back on the PC, but it’s looking like the Xbox 360 will be our target. All of our tools are on the PC, and we’re maintaining the game running on the PC, but probably all of our gameplay development and testing will be done on the Xbox 360. It’s a really sweet development system."
Cheers!
I managed to pick up an XBox through an online retailer just moments ago. I have been holding out for an XBox Premium bundle system and finally caught one online before they sold out.
How did I manage this? There is an interesting website called XBox360Tracker that provides updates on different XBox 360 bundles offered online by different retailers. It provides and RSS feed so you can quickly get updates by opening your reader. I saw a notification just 15 minutes ago on a system that didn’t cost into the 4 digits area and still gave me the options I wanted. I have been watching this thing since right around Christmas. Up until just last week, as soon as there was anything listed as available, by the time I made it to the ordering page for the retailer, they would be out of stock.
Now, I have been sitting on this tidbit since I picked it up from some other blogs as well as an internal alias for a while now. I am not going to apologize for withholding this information because like a lot of people, I want an XBox 360 too. I don’t get any special treatment for being an MS employee so I have been left to my own devices just like the rest of the world. Had I advertised this when I first heard about it I would have just diluted even further my chances of getting a 360 in a reasonable amount of time. But now that I have mine on order, I don’t mind letting my 18 regular visitors about it.
Cheers!
Scoble is at CES and linking to gobs of cool stuff. My fave is the 102” Plasma…..drool!
Anandtech has an article on the new ATI OCUR (Open Cable Uni-Directional Reciever) one of the first of I hope several cable and satellite card tuners that will pump HD content to MCE without needing an OTA antenna. I didn’t exactly have fun putting mine up!
ATI’s Press Release for the OCUR.
Windows MCE + DirectTV partnership announced by BillG at CES (Fast Forward to 56:00). Yahoo picked this up as well along with other notes from CES. And finally, DirectTV’s Press Release on this (no mention of MCE though)
Press Release on HD-DVD Support for XBox 360. More on this from GameSpot
Gary Krakow talks about Slingbox gets even better by delivering movie content to mobile devices.
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Press Release!
Finally! Though I have nothing against my STB’s (they are hidden out of site anyway), I will be happy to get rid of the extra cabling needed to support them. Anytime I eliminate wiring it makes me happy.
Also, if I read the article correctly, this makes getting an XBox 360 more appealing since we will be able to stream that HD content to an XBox 360 that is acting as a Media Center Extender (MCX). For that matter the article implies we can stream the HD content to a PC!
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Although you don’t get to see nearly as much of the car as I would like, this video still shows a nice modified Scion xA with three XBox 360’s installed to it. The car is very well tricked out though you won’t be driving it anywhere with funky weather…..
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