Posts Tagged ‘Xbox 360’

15 Reasons Console gaming is killing PC gaming

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I read this article on pcworld.com by Matt Peckham on “15 Reasons PC Gaming Beats All” and felt I needed to respond to it. Some of the items were downright wrong especially items 7 and 11 on his list. If you haven’t already check out Matt’s arguments then come back and compare my responses.

Now I was a long time Hardcore PC gamer and in the past couple of years I started to sour on it when I realized how badly components, constant upgrades and time spent tweaking, troubleshooting and repairing was hitting my pocketbook and gaming time.

I’ve since dumped my gaming PC switched to a MacBook Pro for my primary computer and all my gaming is restricted to the 3 current generation consoles (Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii)

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How-To:XBOX 360 Media Server in Linux

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

If you have an XBOX 360 and you’re not using the media capabilities your not completely using your XBOX. The 360 is an excellent way to bring the media on your PC to your living room. Today I’m going to walk you through how to stream video to your 360 using uShare on a computer running linux. It doesn’t need to have very high specs, mine only has a Pentium 4 running at 1.6Ghz with 768 Megs of ram and it streams flawlessly.

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A full 8 Minutes of Assassin’s Creed Gameplay

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Assassin’s Creed Montferrat WalkthroughI’ve finally had the time to watch the 8 minute “Montferrat walk through” for Assassin’s Creed that was released recently. I’m completely awestruck by the fluidity of this game. The attention to detail is just incredible from the subtle hand movements to the dust in the air to the actions of passer by. It feels like every part of the world Ubisoft has created here is alive and reacting to the player. This game is shaping up to be one of if not THE best game of the year if the gameplay delivers on what the trailers promise. If this game wasn’t already on your list of must have titles for 2007 then it will be after watching this video.

IGN – Assassin’s Creed Montferrat Walkthrough

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