Via Major Nelson: Microsoft opens the kimono, and we now know this: 1. Xbox 360 uses software emulation for backwards compatibility (Q&A) 2. Xbox.com and Xbox Live is going to provide updates to the compatibility set 3. The Australian Xbox 360 release date. (Well, that’s actually just conjecture, but the Games Wizards site puts the [...]

So you’ve got your Media Centre PC with Update Rollup 2 installed, and you’re looking at setting up a network that might include a Media Center Extender (MCX) or XBox 360 (which works as an MCX). (sexy website). I’m a whore for a good gigabit switch and some UTP (that’s a wired network, kids), but [...]

News afoot on the MCE EPG front: Looks like Channel 9 were the first to blink, and obfuscated their TV Guide data. Bad news for the screen scraper crowd, for now, though it’s just a temporary setback – the actual information still ends up at the client, it’s just harder to get to. I’m sure [...]

I’ll save you the suspense (you’ll need to bring some of your own to the movie) – it’s not terrible! Neither is it particularly unmissable, but it’s at least an different twist on the game’s plot. How does it stack up against other video game movies? Let’s look at Doom in comparison – I’ll rank [...]

It’s always personally gratifying to see comment spam of a positive nature, but when the comment spammers don’t actually seem to be leaving any spammy URLs as well, you have to wonder what they’re on. Note to non-leet speakers: FTW means “For The Win”, it’s not WTF rearranged. Except that it is. In letters. But [...]

It’s been a while since I blogged at MSN Spaces, and found that… the Backspace key wasn’t working. Something told me that the bed was of my own making – sure enough, I was in IE, and Turnabout was loaded… and so was NoBackspace. My cunning plan had worked too well. Out came Notepad, and [...]