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More than an Advertisement?

Six months ago I posted that Magic on Xbox Live was a Tro­jan Horse of sorts: an online ad call­ing on lapsed play­ers to come back to Jamaica. You know, all of you mil­lions of play­ers from the 90s or early 00’s that have given up the game: try it again! Fall in love with

Magic on the XBox

Since Duels of the Planeswalk­ers launched a week ago, I’ve donated a few bucks and more than a few hours to Wiz­ards of the Coast and Microsoft. Good friends and I joined in to play this lat­est dig­i­tal incar­na­tion of Magic: the Gath­er­ing. It’s not often that I take the chance to play CCGs any­more,

Trial Balloon for Microsoft? Nope!

This has trial bal­loon writ­ten all over it. Adver­tis­ers and cre­ative design­ers will soon have more artis­tic free­dom to turn cam­paigns on Xbox Live into inter­ac­tive and inter­con­nected expe­ri­ences reach­ing far beyond tech­nol­ogy for tele­vi­sion, Sean Alexan­der, direc­tor at Microsoft’s Adver­tis­ing Busi­ness Group, said Mon­day. Per­son­ally, I don’t much care. Nav­i­gat­ing the XBox Live expe­ri­ence

Natal is Real

I’ve seen peo­ple say that Natal is a hoax, that it doesn’t or can’t work. Sorry, it is for real. The demos at E3 were not smoke and mir­rors. Many devel­op­ers have seen and tested it, and the accu­racy with which Natal tracks your move­ments is uncanny. I look for­ward us get­ting our devkit. But