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Some amazing water effects in Epic's latest Unreal Engine

I've had a few "wow" moments in Call of Duty 4, which certainly rivals Gears of War as one of the prettiest games around on the 360. But after seeing the water effects that Epic demonstrated at GDC this week, all I can say is wow. (via X3F )

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-23-2008
Having trouble connecting to games on Xbox Live through a router?

If you are having trouble connecting to games through a router, and you don't have issues when you go directly to the cable modem, you can set your Xbox as the DMZ host. Background Basically, your cable connection gives you a single IP address that the rest of the world can talk to. When you connect...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-21-2007
Taxing Virtual Economies?

A congressional committee is exploring the idea of taxing in-game virtual economies . This is not a tax on the sale of video games themselves ( especially violent ones ), nor is it a tax on the sale of virtual assets in a real market like eBay. As Mike explains: Note that the politicians aren't talking...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-18-2006
My XBox 360 is Broken

Like Kevin , my 360 broke this week. I first got a blue checkerboard on my screen, and then today I got the three red rings of death. Microsoft is shipping me a box and it should take about 2-3 weeks total. Unlike Apple, no overnight shipping here, but hey - it is a bit bigger than my nano. The support...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-29-2006
Most people pay for advertising, but EA wants to charge for it

Starting this Friday, EA and ESPN are making a behind-the-scenes preview of Madden NFL 07 available . Rather than give it away, they are planning on selling it on pay-per-view (yes, through your cable provider) and online for $20. In a recent Major Nelson podcast, they justified it because, apparently...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-03-2006
Street Fighter II is out on Xbox Live Arcade

As expected, Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting was released this morning. Oh, this is just what I need as I wait to waste all my time on Madden later this month. The game is true to the original, which is perhaps my biggest complaint with all of these retro titles. I guess it's debatable whether they...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-02-2006
The Call of Duty 2 patch is out... FINALLY!

The long-awaited patch for Call of Duty 2 - first rumored in early Jan and which I said would be out on March 8th - has FINALLY been released. Initial reports from Xboxic suggest that this solves all of the lag problems and adds everything else expected. Sure took long enough - but at least it's...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-21-2006
Review of Fight Night Round 3 (Xbox 360)

Fight Night: Round 3 , the follow up to Fight Night: Round 2 , was recently released on Xbox 360. (Other versions are coming). I really enjoyed Fight Night: Round 2 even though I'm not a huge boxing fan, so I was pretty excited about this release. FN:R2 was also one of the prettier Xbox games, undoubtedly...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-13-2006
Call of Duty 2 patch coming today?

The Call of Duty 2 patch I mentioned awhile back still hasn't come out and a lot of people are up in arms about this. Here's the situation as I understand it - the patch has been ready for awhile, but they couldn't roll out the multiplayer portions without the dashboard update. The multiplayer...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-08-2006
Xbox Core Player's Bundle sold out again at Amazon... but Dell has some

I still have some monitoring set up from when I scored my Xbox 360. Everything is STILL out of stock it seems, but I just got notification that the Xbox Core Player's Bundle is in stock now at Amazon. This is the same bundle I got last month. It's a bit pricey at $999 for the core system, but...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-18-2006

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