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Interesting Gamasutra article out today on a study from research group Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) that shows better achievements can drive better sales. Achievements have been a bit of a phenomenon, and it's been pretty obvious...
... also known as "games you can play with your friends without having to be online at the same time." In this case, it's a Wall Street Journal article from this weekend that focuses on Scrabulous , a Facebook application. It's basically Scrabble , except...
Been doing a lot of work on future platform planning and was having a conversation with a co-worker about our " Live Anywhere " initiative. Although there are a lot of different aspects of Live Anywhere that excite me, one of the areas I've been doing...
Yep, as you probably saw around the web we have a new Dash update coming down the pipe for the Xbox 360. Lots of new features - I'll point you to Major Nelson's link for all the in-depth details, but will crib a bit of his text below: The redesigned Achievement...
With full credit to Kim Pallister's blog for pointing it out, I wanted to share a great video that summarizes the evolution of the web and explains quite succinctly what all this "Web 2.0" stuff is about. Web 2.0 is a pretty over-burdened phrase these...
Just wanted to write a quick post to thank all of you who had suggestions for us about the future of Live. While I can't comment on specific suggestions, I can say that many of your thoughts are already being thought about. There were also some new...
Lots of links, here's one from the local Seattle Times . Ten million units sold wasn't a surprise, the holiday bump does wonders. It'll be interesting to see what sort of momentum that gives the system into next holiday. Holiday 2007 is where...
Apologies for the lack of posts recently - it's been a rather busy time at work as I caught up from my Peru trip, and I've been traveling all over the place for a variety of work reasons. I'm actually returning from San Francisco even as we speak, and...
Had a couple of emails from folks asking about this post from Shacknews about "Panorama". To quote: "Shacknews has learned from reputable sources who wish to remain nameless that Microsoft plans to introduce what seems to be a Windows gaming service called...
Just saw a discussion over on Evil Avatar about some matchmaking updates that Bungie has announced for Halo 2 . As you might imagine, people have opinions that are all over the map. Some like Halo's "automagical" matchmaking (an advanced implementation...
Been meaning to write some thoughts about Live Anywhere, the initiative we announced at E3 this year to bring the Xbox Live online gaming service to Windows and other devices such as cell phones. Several sites had articles on the topic, including Arstechnica...
Michael Wolf posted some good links to recent Games for Windows articles over on Gamerscoreblog.com, and I wanted to make sure you guys were aware of them. There's been a lot of good work to make Windows Vista a really compelling platform for both game...