Last week, Microsoft introduced gamers to the New Xbox Experience, or NXE. The NXE is a complete overhaul of the previous “blade” UI (user interface) gamers were accustomed to with the Xbox 360. While there were many reasons for the NXE, one of the largest and most important was the growing Marketplace library. As more [...]
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To the joy of many gamers, and chagrin of others, the mandatory New Xbox Experience or “NXE” update has been released. The first thing you’ll notice with the NXE is its radical depature from the well-established “blade” layout the Xbox has been known for, instead replacing the UI with a slick, Cover Flow-esque look. While [...]
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Recently, Microsoft has rolled out a new advertising campaign for its Windows Vista operating system, dubbed the Mojave Experiment. The idea behind the campaign was to see whether regular, everyday users who stated their extreme dislike of Vista, but who never actually used Vista themselves, would, in fact, find Vista appealing once they got their [...]
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With E3 now over, it’s customary for people to declare one company a “winner” of the show. However, this year, the winner isn’t Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony, the winner, or winners, are consumers, specifically, “casual” gamers. If one thing was apparent during this year’s E3, it was that casual games have become big business [...]
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More often than not, if your computer seems to be starting slower than usual, it’s not a hardware problem, but rather a software problem. Many of the programs that you install onto your computer automatically start up with Windows XP. Most of the time you probably won’t even be using those programs, but they’re still [...]
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