Xbox Live's Major Nelson: Show #192 The one about the India Launch

This week’s show: Interview: Alan Bowman, General Manager of (among other things) Xbox India / Name the GameTM /…and much more!

Major Nelson

Are Some Video Games Gambling?

Whoever said "you won't get rich playing video games," never played Entropia Universe — an online computer game where players adventure, build, buy and sell everything from real estate and services to weapons and armor for real dollars.

ABC News

Xbox Laptop 360: Mission Completed!

The famous portable-izer has created another one! The Xbox 360 laptop has a 17" LCD screen (1280x720), a water cooling system, and breakout ports on the back for use on your HDTV.
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A ton of next-gen Sonic screens

The next-gen Sonic the Hedgehog, developed by Sonic Team, is due out on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (Wii has its own version). Today we have 56 screenshots from the PS3 version.

GAF - News

Price Check: Xbox 360 Vs. PS3

Interesting take on PS3 price and how it CAN be cheaper than the xbox360.

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Halo Theme Song at a High School Talent Show

Not that I want to be famous, but I thought a few of you might find this cool. Myself and a few friends performed the Halo Theme Song at our high school talent show. The Full line up was, Violin, Guitar, Bass, Drum Kit, Timpani, Quads/ Bass, PVC / Gong. There is a Mario Bros. break down in the middle.

Nolan Bushnell Atari 7800 Fetching Big Bucks

Attention Atari collectors! Currently being auctioned on eBay is the above pictured, ultra rare "Nolan Bushnell Signature Series Atari 7800". For you kids too young to have ever dragged your parents to one of Bushnell's Chuck E. Cheese's, he's the founder of Atari. Go on, look it up! Here's the deal with this very fashionable old-school console:

Kotaku

PC Adaptor for wireless XBOX 360 controllers

Soon you will be able to use up to four XBOX 360 controllers with your PC using one usb port.

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Here’s why Sony PS3 will get free online gaming (Rumor)

The Sony ps3 when it comes out if ever it comes out, rumors are that it will offer free online playing capability, just like xbox live which is a paid service. The reason why they are doing this according to me calculations is because of the Folding@Home project, which if you don’t know is a project similar to seti’s distributed computing. Where your computers idle time will be used to do the number crunching for DNA sequences to make new medicine or just run similations, anywhere big super computers are needed. This is a smart way to use gaming consoles which are as powerful or more powerful than computers, to do distributed computing. Imagine if sony playstation 2 had this capability. More than 100 Million PS2’s have been Sold. Now add all the CPU power of the CPU together, just half of them, 50 million will get you more the fastest super computer ever built. So are they planning to do a PS3 super computer. They could sell this to customers of super computers and make even more money. You in return will get free online play. If you ask me that is very nice way to solve a big problem of subscriptions. I could be totally wrong. but if they are smart they could use this to their advantage.

Prasanth’s

40 GB Hard Drive for DS Mod

The legendary Natrium42 has been hard at work on making an IDE connection for the DS. Now he has a WORKING 40GB hard drive ready for his DS to utilize, now he says perhaps he could listen to music or watch full length of my DVDs.

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Virtual Console Launch List

We have word from a trustworthy source that at least 26 classic titles are headed to Virtual Console for launch. Take note that this is not a final set; more could easily be added at any time, per the publisher's decision and formal announcements.

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Wii Rumors: Insider Says Price, Date, & Pack-ins Will Not Disappoint

"Nintendo is going to pack in the console itself of course, with two Wii remotes and two nunchuck attachments. Nintendo will also be deciding on the 13th whether or not to add an SD memory card to the list... To make up for the lack of the classic controller at launch, Nintendo is planning to pack in Wii Sports."

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