What've We Been Up To?!

July 14, 2008 @9:07PM by Staggs in GXN

We've been playing around over at our new web site: WhatsLeet.com. Check it out, its better than anything. What is WhatsLeet?

WhatsLeet.com’s mission is to provide you with a source for awesome news that isn’t so boring, and is informative, and freaking sweet. We intend to glorify the games that should be glorified, and intend to hype you up about your favorite gadgets and movies, and things of that sort.

Check it out now!

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Duke Nukem Forever... Finally... maybe...

February 7, 2008 @10:02AM by Staggs in Games

There has been a single game that always had gamers chuckling whenever mentioning its title along with the words "to be released." That game is Duke Nukem Forever, a game dating back to 1996 that was set to be revolutionary in the FPS category. However, the game has never made it out of production, with some blips of hope every once and a while. Maybe this time its as true as ever. In an email interview with 3D Realms President Scott Miller at Dallas Business Journal, he mentions the game having another internal push:

Scott Miller wrote:
We can't make an official announcement. Frankly, we may miss the mark by a month or two, but I feel very confident that we're on target this time.

We're really excited about bringing classic Duke to the 360, we're talking to Microsoft about getting a release slot sometime this year.

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No more status updates for Xbox Live

January 13, 2008 @9:01PM by Staggs in Xbox Live

We last updated that Xbox Live was facing outages and the team was doing their best to ease the pain and fix the problems. In the meantime, they were posting updates on the status of the service. Now however, a class-action lawsuit for Microsoft has come into play from the citizens of Texas, which resulted after the outages occurred, has created a halt on these updates. Due to the lawsuits, Microsoft is obligated to keep their mouths shut on updates about the health of Xbox Live, and whether it is fixed or being close to fixed. More updates on this soon...  

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Xbox Live faces outtages

January 6, 2008 @11:01AM by Staggs in Xbox Live

The holidays have come, and so have some problems, at least for the Xbox Live team over at Microsoft. New registrations for the online service has skyrocketed, resulting in record breaking, and history making, as well as outages and frustrated customers.

Since the holidays, Xbox Live has been facing numerous problems with matchmaking, leaderboards, and a list of problems that gamers have encountered. Microsoft has since stepped up and said they understand the problems, and are, as they have always, working on the problems. Marc Whitten, general manager for Xbox Live, has stated the following in a press release on Thursday:

Marc Whitten wrote:
At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.

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Happy 2008

December 31, 2007 @11:01PM by Staggs in GXN

Happy New Year, and Happy Holidays folks. I hope everyone has had a wonderful year, and many more to come. It has been a while since our last update, but as a resolution for the new year, I'm going to try to complete my projects, and grow them more personally. Put more time, effort, and care into my own work. With that said, expect more updates in the coming week as I begin again to resurrect the site, and give it a bigger footprint than it had before.

Once again, stay safe and we'll see you again soon.

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In case you are wondering

March 6, 2007 @5:03PM by Staggs in GXN

...we have been working on updating the site in many ways. We aren't ready announce any of our changes, or show off (thats unlike us, we're going to keep you guessing). But changes are in the midst, and coming soon!

Here are a few things you should know. First being, the site may appear down or problematic at some times. This is normal, as we are doing a lot of backend changes as well. Please don't mail us unless the site is down for more than an hour or so. We also won't be making too many (if any at all) updates so we don't stunt our movements.

Think you want to help us? Feel free to mail us!

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New GXN Wallpaper!

February 20, 2007 @7:02PM by Xathaec in GXN

From Staggs to you, it's two new GetXbox wallpapers. Excellently crafted on Adobe Photoshop CS3, displaying the websites insignia in full glory dead center and surrounded by the well known abstractions that usually surround the title “GetXbox.net” the wallpaper comes in two very useful sizes

• 1280x1024
  
• 1680x1050

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Gamerscore Update!

February 8, 2007 @6:02PM by Xathaec in Games

Over the last week, Microsoft had announced some big events in the world of gamerscore.

As of Feb 1st Microsoft announced via their Gamerscore Blog that retail games could add on 250 gamerscore worth of achievements through downloads, either for free or paid for. Arcade games could increase by 50 gamerscore via downloads as well. Crackdown, for example, came with 900 gamerscore worth of achievements on disc, with the rest included in free content further in the future. Continues...

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Windows Vista plans on giving the 360 a voice

February 3, 2007 @10:02AM by Xathaec in Xbox 360

The new voice chip that will come with the Windows Vista Media Center Communicator (version 3.0) upon release will allow people to simply speak to play videos, music, watch TV, or play slideshows on your Xbox 360. The module created by ‘One Voice’ Technologies will be able to control up to five 360’s connected to the Media Player. It also includes:

• Simple to use voice commands
• High accuracy range and multiple accent recognition
• Playing your MP3 or iTunes
• Various 360 voice commands
• Skype controlled PC-to-Phone calling
• create your own custom voice macros to launch websites and applications
• works with media center DVD players
• USB headphone included

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Recent Downtime

January 26, 2007 @2:01PM by Staggs in GXN

The site suffered some downtime this week due to a server problem that resulted in a relocation of the site. We've since moved to a new, improved server, and are just getting the kinks out now. We apologize for the downtime. We will resume in full shortly after the wrinkles settle.

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