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Re:Fresh 45 – Gunslinger

Jan22
by Nate on January 22, 2013 at 10:35 pm
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Today on Re:Fresh: We're back from the holidays and weighing in on the issues of the new year. We check out what's up in Bulgarian politics (spoilers: assassination attempts!), talk about guns and gun control, GLAD gives Frank Ocean an award for gay stuff, another lottery winner is dead, the murder rate in NYC hits a record low, and Ozzy Osbourne goes to hell, kind of. We'll also talk about the backlash against violent video games and what that could mean for our favorite past time, check out the latest Metal Gear Rising demo, Skyrim DLC is coming to the PS3, Skype on Xbox? It could happen. That's all on this episode of Re:Fresh.

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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker disappears from Xbox LIVE

Sep18
by Nate on September 18, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Posted In: Blog

Title suffers from random freezing and console lock ups

The Xbox 360 version of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker has been pulled from Xbox LIVE.

While publisher Konami hasn’t provided an update on the matter, reports have suggested

that players have been suffering from random freezing and console lock ups, which may explain its sudden disappearance from the Xbox 360 Games on Demand service.

The removal may very well be temporary with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker still being listed on Xbox.com’sdatabase.

Peace Walker‘s HD port, which was priced at $19.99 when it was available on Xbox LIVE, is also included in theMetal Gear Solid HD Collection.

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We told you about Peace Walker being available on Xbox Live on our last episode, so I thought we should follow up on that. Hopefully, Peace Walker will be back on Xbox Live soon, but if you can’t wait you can snag a Xbox disc copy of the HD collection which includes Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 from Amazon

for $35. Hellova deal.

 

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Re:Fresh 34 – No Words

Jul30
by Nate on July 30, 2012 at 5:06 pm
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This week on the show: we talk about the shooting in Aurora, Colorado and the insane conspiracy theory circulating since the incident, Lord Finesse sues Mac Miller over a track on a mixtape, Fred was whacking his Willard, a dude in Oregon has been infected with black plague. Also, Skype is probably monitoring your calls, more details on the Ouya, and Final Fantasy comes to Android. We’ll also play a video

that makes Will…well, just listen and find out.

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Valve's Newell: Windows 8 "catastrophe" driving Valve to embrace Linux

Jul29
by Nate on July 29, 2012 at 3:39 pm
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Valve head—and one-time Microsoft employee—Gabe Newell has branded Windows 8 “a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space” at videogame conference Casual Connect in Seattle. The Valve boss continued, saying that in the fallout from Windows 8, “we’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.” Newell criticised Windows 8 while talking about the future of the gaming industry, and you can read everything he said at VentureBeat.

He argued that one of the last remaining things keeping people away from Linux was the lack of games. Valve is working to bring Left 4 Dead 2 and other Steam titles to Linux in a move that Newell describes as “a hedging strategy.” If

his predictions about Windows 8 come true, he says “it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.”

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EA, Zynga, Microsoft Support Challenge to Defense of Marriage Act

Jul29
by Nate on July 29, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Posted In: News

Three companies with major involvement in video games—EA, Zynga and Microsoft—have

joined some 40 other companies, including the Gap, Google and Starbucks, along with several cities, including New York, Boston and Los Angeles, in filing a brief to support a legal challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. The Act, signed into federal law in 1996, defines marriage as between a man and woman, restricting tax and health benefits from gay couples. The companies say the law is discriminatory, hurts morale and is onerous to comply with.

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Microsoft Brings $99 Xbox-Kinect Bundle to Best Buy, GameStop

Jun10
by Nate on June 10, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Posted In: Live Blog, News

Microsoft is extending a deal for steeply discounted Xbox 360 consoles and Kinect motion controllers to Best Buy and GameStop stores in the United States, the company said this week.

In early May, the software giant began offering an Xbox 360 and Kinect bundle for $99 on its own online store and at Microsoft Stores to purchasers who also signed up for a two-year Xbox Live Gold Membership.

That same deal will be extended later this month at all Best Buy outlets in the U.S. and select GameStop stores, the company said.

“We’re excited to announce the expansion of this program, a new retail model that provides yet another way for consumers to get the complete Xbox 360, Kinect, and Xbox Live experience,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

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Apple “ten years behind Microsoft” in malware readiness

Apr29
by Nate on April 29, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Posted In: Live Blog, News

Apple is a decade behind Microsoft in terms of Mac malware security, research firm Kaspersky has contentiously suggested, something it predicts the Cupertino firm will quickly realize in a fast-approaching storm of rogue software. “I think they are ten years behind Microsoft in terms of security” company CEO Eugene Kaspersky told Manifest A Miracle – Law Of Attraction System

lank”>Computer Business Review at a security event this week, predicting a torrent of malware is incoming for OS X and that Apple will have to pull its boots up in order to handle it.

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Halo 4 hitting Xbox 360 on November 6—without Bungie

Apr22
by Nate on April 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Posted In: Live Blog, News

Microsoft and developer 343 Industries have announced that the next title in the Halo series will launch on the Xbox 360 on November 6.

The worldwide launch date, the same day as the US presidential election, places the game after planned September and October releases for anticipated holiday titles like Borderlands 2, Bioshock Infinite, Assassin’s Creed 3, and Medal of Honor: Warfighter, but still well ahead of the post-Thanksgiving sales period.

The new game, which Microsoft has called the beginning of a “new trilogy” for the franchise, is set four years after the events of Halo 3, which seems appropriate for a game coming out almost exactly four years after the last numbered Halo game.

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Worldwide Windows XP Eradication Day Only Two Years Away

Apr22
by Nate on April 22, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Posted In: Live Blog, News

To the 100 million Windows XP users out there, Microsoft has a message for you: It’s time to move on. Seriously.

In fact, the countdown to the end of the Age of XP is on. In just under two years — on Apr. 8, 2014 to be exact — Microsoft will dump support for its once-ubiquitous OS and its faithful sidekick, Office 2003.

In a blog post on Monday, Microsoft spokeswoman Stella Chernyak said it’s time for corporate users to let go of the past. “If you still have some PCs running Windows XP and Office 2003 in your organization, now would be a good time to start migrating them to Windows 7 and Office 2010,” she wrote.

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Entertainment apps now more popular than multiplayer gaming on Xbox Live

Apr01
by Nate on April 1, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Posted In: Live Blog, News

The total hours spent on Xbox Live have increased 30 percent year over year, Microsoft said, growing to an incredible 84 hours a month average for Xbox Live Gold members (that average stood at 60 hours last June). Most of that growth came from increased use of entertainment apps such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, ESPN and Zune Marketplace on Xbox Live, which Microsoft says saw more than double the usage over the last year. With today’s release of new entertainment apps including Comcast, HBO Go and MLB.tv, that rate of increase seems likely to continue.

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Report: Glitch Causes Xbox Achievements and Gamerscore to Disappear for Some Users

Mar25
by Nate on March 25, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Posted In: Live Blog, News

This morning Eurogamer ran a report on a number of users complaining that their Xbox 360 Achievements and Gamerscores were mysteriously being wiped. As you can imagine users were emailing them and other outlets franticly detailing their losses and how they had contacted Xbox Live support.

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Microsoft ‘Avoid Ghetto’ App Sparks Controversy

Jan29
by Nate on January 29, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Posted In: Live Blog, News

Microsoft is being slammed for its new feature that some have dubbed the “avoid ghetto” app, although it still does not have an official name. The app is meant to help anyone traveling on foot avoid bad weather, tough terrain and unsafe neighborhoods, NPR reports.

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Microsoft Endorses Gay Marriage In Washington State

Jan29
by Nate on January 29, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Posted In: Live Blog, Music

Marriage equality in Washington would put employers here on an equal footing with employers in the six other states that already recognize the committed relationships of same-sex couples – Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. This in turn will help us continue to compete for talent.

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Next Xbox Out In Oct/Nov 2013, Chips Already Being Made

Jan29
by Nate on January 29, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Posted In: Live Blog, News

The IGN rumour says the next console will be out in October or November next year, and that it’s graphics processor will be based on the existing Radeon HD 6670. It also states that “In real terms, the Xbox 720′s raw graphics processing power is expected to be six times that of the Xbox 360 and will yield 20-percent greater performance than Nintendo’s forthcoming console, the Wii U.”

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