Joe Teed

New Xbox Live Content

July 13, 2006

Today on Xbox Live you will find trailers for Halo 3 and Mass Effect and a demo for NCAA Football 2007. Go get ’em.

[url=http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/07/12/Trailer_3A00_-Mass-Effect_3A00_-Demo-Walkthrough.aspx]Trailer: Mass Effect: Demo Walkthrough[/url]
[url=http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/07/12/Trailer_3A00_-Halo-3_3A00_-In-the-Beginning-.aspx]Trailer: Halo 3: In the Beginning[/url]
[url=http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/07/12/Demo_3A00_-NCAA-Football-07.aspx]Demo: NCAA Football 07[/url]
(all via Major Nelson)

This is just a rumor, because they seem to be selling them full price online, but lets hope stores lose this stuff like a bad cold ASAP.

[url=http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/psp/rumor-target-pulling-umds-186720.php]Rumor: Target Pulling UMDs[/url] (Kotaku)

More from Mark Rein

July 12, 2006

Apparently Mark Rein isn’t big on episodic gaming, either.

[url=http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10046]Epic’s Rein Outspoken At Develop Conference[/url] (Gamasutra)

Mark Rein seems to think so, but for different reasons than you might expect. Epic has always seemed to think everyone else is a huge whiner as far as it comes to dual core, so what is Intel doing wrong? Integrated graphics.

I totally agree here. Retailers love Intel’s integrated graphics chipsets because they are cheap, but casual users usually feel cheated by them. Most of my friends don’t understand why their brand new Dell or whatnot can’t play games out of the box. The issue could easily be resolved by tossing in a $100 (more lik $25 to them) low-end Ati or Nvidia card, but the retailers know that their users probably aren’t aware of the difference until it’s too late.

[url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/12/epics-mark-rein-intel-is-killing-pc-gaming/]Epic’s Mark Rein: Intel is killing PC Gaming[/url] (Joystiq)

If you’re still playing PGR3, why not drop 400 points on a bunch of new cars? If you don’t want to do that, you can grab a few for 60 points each.

[url=http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/07/11/PGR3-Style-Pack.aspx]PGR3 Style Pack[/url] (Major Nelson)