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xbox, play, play PLAY!, PLAAAAAAY!!!!!!!

XBOX Dashboard update, going metro like windows phone 7 and the upcoming windows 8. Once you get passed the agreements, you can almost use kinect for the interface, maybe you could do that before? i don’t know, i mean who … Continue reading

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Nintendo 3DS update delayed but soon

The nintendo 3DS update that was due very late november is in the internal testing phase at Nintendo and should be rolled out by December 8th. The update includes 3D video recording for upto 10 minutes, as well as some … Continue reading

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Street fighting Gold Action

Those of you who subscribe to Xbox Live Arcade Gold can get half price deal this week on Super Street Fighter 2Turbo HD Remix 600 MS, Streetfighter 2 Hyper Fighting 200MS, and Final Fight Double Impact 400MS. Of course if … Continue reading

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Ooops, we forgot to mention, Minecraft is officially launched, but you knew that already

So last weekened was the big MineCon in vegas, where 5000 met to celelbrate the release with @notch and the rest of Mojang. As we here at grig can’t afford a plane ticket, 3 nights in a hotel, and the … Continue reading

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Need to buy a new Kinect, don’t use the one you got?

Well folkes, here’s the skinny, over at the Microsoft Research Kinect for Windows blog, there’s news that next year will see a new kinect that will have “optimized certain hardware components and made firmware adjustments which better enable PC-centric scenarios”. … Continue reading

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IGN are gonna live stream some MineCon goodness woo hoo

News of the day is that if you are a fan of Minecraft, but do not live in the states, and cannot afford to go to MineCon over the 18th -19th of Novemeber, then fret not, as Mojang have partnered … Continue reading

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Kinect for Windows SDK beta 2 is out

It’s great that Microsoft have put efforts in helping the community utilize the power of kinect, and now we’re seeing proof that they are continuing that commitment. Today i saw a news item in my rss feeds from Microsoft Research … Continue reading

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Grrrrr xcode 4.2 woes

Recently i started a new job where i have to learn to develop iPhone apps, which is pretty cool and interesting, better than android too. But just recently we’ve updated to xcode 4.2, and here lies a few problems, i … Continue reading

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Daytona USA as it should be, out now XBLA

Daytona on an XBOX 360 is awesome, it looks a lot sharper than the saturn version, doesn’t suffer the bad pop ups or clipping, but still has that daytona look, unlike the Dreamcast updated version that looked slightly weird, still … Continue reading

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Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is coming to Europe

BooYah, Level-5 the developers of Ni No Kuni(a PS3 RPG with animation from Studio Ghibli) have had their little get together exhibit thing and have announced that NAMCO BANDAI will be publishing this bad boy in both North America and … Continue reading

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