Archive for October, 2003

Xbox gets karaoke add-on

Microsoft on Wednesday released the Xbox Music Mixer, the first nongaming add-on for the company’s Xbox video game console. As previously reported, the Music Mixer consists of a microphone and supporting software that enables the Xbox to function as a karaoke machine. The $40 package also includes a photo application that allows people to transfer [...]

SOE Ships “Planetside” Expansion

Sony Online Entertainment has shipped Core Combat, the first expansion pack for it’s MMO-FPS Planetside today. Core Combat takes players inside the planet Auraxis for some squad-based technology hunting and combat. The expansion should show up at retail today or tomorrow.
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Microsoft Contractor fired, because his blog showed G5’s being unloaded at Microsoft

According to this story on Slashdot, a full time temp at Microsoft was fired for posting a picture of some G5’s coming into Microsoft’s office on his blog. Is this right?

Call Of Duty Ships

Following up thier previous story on the game going gold, Activision today shipped Call Of Duty for the PC platform. Developed by Infinity Ward, Call Of Duty is set amidst World War II, and has players fight through 24 missions as American, British and Russian soldiers. Call Of Duty also supports multiplayer modes for up [...]

Napster 2.0 goes live

Napster goes live today, segueing from the beta release launched earlier this month into a fully fledged version 2.0, whose only real connection with the infamous file swapping service of yore is the headphoned cat logo.
Like Apple’s iTunes Music Store, which provided the template for the new service, Napster 2.0 offers downloads for 99 [...]

Microsoft fires employee over G5 photos, blog

A Microsoft employee has been fired for his blog posting titled,Even Microsoft wants G5s, which includes photos of delivery of Power Mac G5s to Microsoft’s Redmond Campus: “To my mind, it’s an innocuous post. The presence of Macs on the Microsoft campus isn’t a secret (for everything from graphic design work to the Mac Business [...]


MGM Nixes Halle’s “Jinx”

Halle Berry’s Jinx is apparently, well, jinxed. James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson had been planning to spinoff Berry’s sexy spy character from last year’s 007 adventure, Die Another Day, but now the project has reportedly been scrapped by MGM, the studio that distributes all the Bond films. Read More
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