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New Xbox Experience Preview

Today the New Xbox Experience Preview (The Xbox Live Fall Update) was released to a small group of users to provide feedback on the upcoming NXE release on the 19th of November. Thanks again to Major Nelson for adding me to the queue to review the NXE. The Update prompts like any other and your system...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 10-30-2008
Game of the Week - Dead Space

Overview : When we first started talking to Electronic Arts (EA) about Community Server powering the Dead Space pre-launch site I was hooked on the concept. Born from a rouge EA team, DeadSpace is a bold step forward for EA. It is a brand new IP and it is a true survival/horror title which has an M rating...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 10-26-2008
Game of the Week: Gears of War 2

When the dust settled on the original Gears of War release over four million copies were sold and some of the highest critical praise of any title on the 360 to date. So it is easy to say that the expectations around Gears of War 2 are pretty high. Epic Games is the studio behind Gears of War 2 and the...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 04-19-2008
Microsoft Outing 'Cheaters' on Xbox Live

Major Nelson announced today that Microsoft has instituted new policies to further crack down on cheaters on Xbox Live. Major stated that they have already taken action to punish " accounts we have identified as the most serious offenders who have violated the Xbox Live Terms of Use by tampering with...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 03-25-2008
Interview with Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb

During GDC 2008 I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb of the Xbox Live team. Larry is the Director of Xbox Live Programming and is the author of one of the most popular gaming blogs on the web. Between posts, blogcasts and twitter Major keeps everyone up to date on the...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 02-21-2008
Game Developers Conference 2008

I am in transit to San Francisco to attend the Game Developers Conference 2008. I look forward to the numerous sessions and networking as well as all of the latest and greatest gaming demonstrations during the expo portion of the conference. On Wednesday I will begin my blog coverage of GDC 2008 as that...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 02-17-2008
CES Day 3

Coming to you live from Las Vegas at CES 2008. Today was another good day. After some early meetings with the Microsoft Vista team and the High Tech team it was on to the convention floor for additional networking. There were 35 football fields worth of booths and exhibits. There was a very large focus...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 01-09-2008
CES Day 2

Hello from Las Vegas. Today was another eventful day in Las Vegas. For most of the day we met again with the Microsoft High Tech Sales teams. Later in the day we did hit the expo floor here in the Venetian. The Panasonic "life wall" presentation was the most impressive of the day. About 10% of the expo...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 01-08-2008
CES Day 1

Coming to you live from the Palazzo in Las Vegas... Day one is now in the books. Registration, networking and Rock Band were the orders of the day. Telligent is a managed partner for the Microsoft High Tech Industry Segment. This is one of the largest sales organizations within Microsoft. The focus of...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 01-07-2008
1000 pts w00t!!!

Alright, I have finally broken the 1000 pt barrier on a game. Thanks to EA's Fight Night 3 (Great game btw) and 5 nights of gaming and a very understanding wife (love you babe). In the latest news Rob Howard had a big collision during a pick up game of hockey yesterday... don't worry Rob , scars are...

Posted to TheBlackFin - Thoughts from Tom Edwards (Weblog) by tom on 04-25-2007

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