Afin de contrer Nintendo (Mii ) et prochainement l’arrivée de Sony Home, Microsoft annonce un dispositif virtuel (avatar, cinema, fêtes virtuelles)  pour sa Xbox.

Source: mindblizzard

A partir del 19 de noviembre, sus consolas Xbox 360 nunca volverá a ser el mismo. La Nueva Experiencia Xbox (NXE en inglés) cambiará la manera en que se divertirán en casa. Los jugadores serán capaces de crear sus propios personajes similares a los Mii como la gente lo hace en su Wii, con características más detalladas para crear personajes únicos. Esta NXE tiene como obejtivo a los jugadores casulaes que más probablemente usen sus consolas para usaelas no solo para jugar. Claro, si hay gente a quienes les gusta la interfaz actual, pueden ellos volver a esa si no están satisfechos con el nuevo NXE. Para los jugadores hardcore, Microsoft ofrecerá otro paquete de expansión para Halo 3 (Halo 3 : Recon) al igual que juegos exclusivos para la consola. Ahora que Microsoft vende más consolas que antes a nivel mundial, ¿serán capaces de ser número uno contra el campeón actual Nintendo? Echen un vistazo a las imágenes.

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The 360's new dashboard! Good or bad? I don't know. I'll be straight forward. I do not, at all, care for all the glitter and polish. I expect my 360 to let me play games, and that's about it. I expect the same from my Wii and future PS3. So lets see what they're adding, and I'll give my opinion as we go down the list.

#1: “With this new dashboard experience you will be able to install the entire game onto the hard drive, and by using the disc you can initiate the game start up, which allows to you to have even quicker load times, an even quieter box and even better experience.”

Yeah, I don't really care. I still use the standard 20 GB HDD that game with my 360, so it's not like a can install lots of games on my HDD anyway. Seriously though, are loading times really THAT bad? Is it so horrible to have to wait a few seconds? The PS3 went overboard on the subject, forcing gamers to sit through horrendously long install times. Just give me multiple disks, I'm not that lazy that I can't get up to change the disk. I don't care about disk changing. Just let me play my game right away. So yeah, I'm neutral. >_>

#2: “There is a 3D element to the visuals and experience and is part of the new wow factor, the avatars have depth, the whole Dashboard has a 3D look and feel.

As said, I couldn't care less about the shiny things they put on. How long do people spend looking at their dashboard, really? I see mine long enough to put in a disk, which is like a minute at most.

#3: “When you log in you get to the My Xbox Channel, you will see your gamer score, your avatars and game achievements, but it’s laid out in a way that all of the experiences are pushed out right in front of you — it is so user friendly.”

Do not EVER use the terms "pushed right in front of you" and "user friendly" in the same sentence. I'm expecting some chaotic mess of unnecessary gimmicks.

#4: “Customisation of avatars is off the charts, you can make them look as much like you, or not like you, as you want. You can add hats, clothing, if you’re a female you can add a purse, lipstick, there are endless amounts of customisation.”

First, I realized they spelled "customization" wrong in the article. Funny. Anyway, listen Microsoft. The Wii's Mii program was fun for like, the first half an hour. After that, it just got pointless. You say yours has accessories and crap. Yay, yours will be fun for like an hour.

#5: “In your online community, all your friends are right there represented by their avatars and above their head it will tell you what they’re doing, whether playing a game, watching a movie or sharing photos, so you can jump into that experience with your friends.

I'm pretty sure I could do most of that before. Only now I have to see their big head staring back at me. Are you trying to scare me Microsoft?

#6: “Imagine an open plan community with all these avatars interacting and from there I can get a group of my friends to create a party to enhance the community experience and we can all go from one experience to the next, from playing a game together, to sharing photos, sharing videos, having a chat, and doing all these different things.”

So it's like home, but without the crappy Second Life experience? You sold me Microsoft, bring the future. I can't wait to talk to my friends, look at pictures, and watch movies on my gaming console!

So yeah, in conclusion, this update is pointless. Gaming consoles should first and foremost be for gaming. This is clearly not.

Square Enix anunció Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time para Wii y Nintendo DS, un juego de acción-RPG que saldrá a la venta el 29 de enero del próximo año en Japón, y donde podemos apreciar que los Mii tendrán participación.

Gracias a la tecnología Pollux Engine desarrollada por Square Enix, los jugadores de ambas consolas podrán jugar en línea con los demás al mismo tiempo, pero esta no será la única interactividad que habrá, pues los jugadores del Wii podrán mandar sus Miis creados a la Nintendo DS.

Por ahora no hay más información sobre el juego, aparte de que la protagonista se llamará Charlotta, y que el gameplay será diferente dependiendo de la consola.

No sé por qué, pero este nuevo Final Fantasy me huele a juego para gamers casuales.

Fuente: Gamekyo

From connecting the Wii to a TV, home entertainment setup, or high-speed Internet connection, to finding winning strategies with Wii Sports tennis, golf, baseball, bowling, and boxing, and getting fit while playing, this new release is the ultimate guide to setting up and navigating the Wii gaming system. Written by expert gamer Kyle Orland, Wii FOR DUMMIES shows readers how to gain control of the Wii's unique controllers and learn to use the Nunchuk, Balance Board, Wheel, and Zapper. It also guides readers through the Wii Channels where gamers can shop for new games, check the weather forecast, check the news, and even watch videos. In jargon-free accessible language, this book tells readers just what they need to know to get the most out of their new gaming console. Additional coverage includes:

• Creating a Mii character
• Tips on choosing games -- Party games and family-friendly games
• How to enjoy photos, videos, and slideshows on your Wii
• How to use the Wii's full-featured Web browser
• Ways to prevent damage to -- and from -- Wii remotes
• How to use the Wii's full-featured Web browser
• Five hot Wii-specific Web sites
• How to customize the Channels menu
• Cool Wii games you can download

The Wii has become the top selling game console in the little more than one year that it has been on the market. Now, with Wii FOR DUMMIES new gamers can get the most out of their game time. From increasing physical fitness with Wii Sports, to discovering Wii's hidden talents, this is the essential guide that no Wii user should be without.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kyle Orland (Washington DC) is a video-game expert and a regular writer for the premier gaming blog Joystiq.com. He co-hosts the NPR video game podcast Press Start (www.pressstartpodcast.com) and maintains Gamespot.com's weekly "PressSpotting" column. He is frequently quoted in articles about gaming.

For more information, contact: Eric Holmgren 415-782-3161 eholmgre@wiley.com

Wii For Dummies By Kyle Orland Wiley; October 2008; $21.99 978-0-470-40297-9; Paperback

X360:
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Wii:

Não sei, mas mesmo a Microsoft copiando uma idéia, ela soube amadurecer muito o desenvolvimentos da coisa, os "Xii's" estão muito superiores visualmente que os do Wii. Não acha?

Não estou debatendo utilização ou funcionamento dos sistemas, até porque pouco se sabe sobre o do X360 como funcionará, estou comentando que tanto em visual quanto customização, pelos vídeos acima, o do X360 parece muito mais bacana.

Gaming News subió este fascinante video de los escritores de Saturday Night Live en el que aparecieron como personajes Mii. Parece que hay fiebre por el Wii en todos lados, hasta en los Emmy's. Hagan clic en el enlace de fuente.

Source: Gaming Nexus [http://gamingnexus.com/FullNews/SNL-comedy-writers-appear-as-Nintendo-Miis-for-the-Emmys/Item10055.aspx].

In my case, I, in my real persona, am my online identity. I could never imagine being someone other than who I am, both online and offline. This is why I construct all of my online personas (avatars, if you will) to better resemble how I look in real life. Therefore, my alternative ID is me, whereas Lonelygirl15 is nothing more than an actress in front of a camera, not a girl moping incessantly on Youtube.

As a man seeking military service, I am a combat writer: simply put. I write about what I know and what I'm very good at. I write of war, battle, siege, death, political scandal, and military maneuver, while intermingling such ideas with snippets of romance, betrayal, love, passion, and yes, even sex. Why? Because I have the freedom to do so, because it is my choice, because I have the power, and because I feel I have the obligation to do so to give back to a particular videogame community. No one can affect my stories and my ideas but me. No one can write my stories in the manner I wish but me. No one can wage the wars I do as well as I can but me.

I first got started writing when I came across a particular story-posting website known as the Grey Archive. The site contained a variety of stories, most of which contained at least one or two romance scenes and sexually-explicit moments known as "lemons" (why, I have no idea). I found two stories on Command & Conquer, Westwood Studios' smash-hit military strategy computer game series, while browsing the site, read them both, and was appalled. I wondered how anyone could mar my treasured series in this manner, though it was their freedom to do so. So, I motivated myself to pick up my pen in Spring of 2002 and began writing. I started with a simple school notebook and a pen, writing down entire paragraphs as the timeline of two, three, innumerable wars played out in my head.

It took me four months to write my first story, and two months to type it into a word processor. So began my writing career. My process for writing began with a notebook in which I would write a story before transferring it to a word processor, then sending it in to the lead moderator at Grey Archive. The longest it ever took me to write a story was a few months, the shortest only two days (while bored out of my mind at Boys' State 2002). I wrote roughly ten or eleven stories before finally having my word processor-typed stories catch up to my written work. I went through several notebooks, many sleepless nights, and permanent skin discoloration on my left hand (being I am left-handed when I write) before I finally dropped the notebooks altogether and decided to stick to a word processor to type. Much easier.

However, a problem which became clear to me so late was that I would type a story, send it into Grey Archive, then edit it. When I would find a new mistake, I would resend my story to the moderator, and then I'd find another mistake after correcting the corrected version. I think I once sent the first story I wrote into the website five or six times: not exactly a way to make friends with a site's moderator when he's paying for the site out of his own pocket. Another problem I discovered about three years ago was the fact that I was drifting away from the plotline as portrayed in the Command & Conquer videogames. Battles were out of order, characters were misplaced between stories, and generally, I was unsatisfied with my work as I grew up and became more mature. In truth, I was doing exactly what the two Grey Archive C&C stories were doing to my beloved series: I was marring my own work and disrespecting my C&C community by losing my objectivity for realism and military authenticity, something I always look for in military-related videogames, and something I am always angry about when it is lacking.

Over the course of the past six years, I wrote over twenty stories, each averaging fifty pages in length, until Grey Archive was shut down since the moderator could not afford to pay for the site. Twice so far, I have "revamped" my work, discarding my old stories for writing new ones which are more intuned with the games' plots, as well as more militarily authentic and accurate. Currently, I have several thousand pages of ideas lined up for my upcoming stories, but due to time constraints, I have little time to type my work anymore.

Also, I have changed the venue of where my work is published. I figured that if I control my writing, I should control where I post it. Therefore, I decided to post my stories to my DeviantArt page. This will allow me the freedom to post, edit, and remove a story as I see fit, without owing anyone any money or paying anyone any favors. Though, I still worry about my lack of free time to myself. Sometimes, I feel as though I'm running out of time to finish my work.

Nevertheless, I write. I write so that I may tell the war of Command & Conquer accurately, authentically, as the war should be told.

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Lest we become too lax and believe the console avatar market was sewn up by Nintendo's pop icon the Mii, Rare was on hand Thursday to claim they thought of the idea first.

Mii's? Totally not original, says Rare.

Contrary to popular belief, Rare was not ordered to copy Nintendo's wildly successful Mii strategy by a desperate Microsoft. There was no last minute order to create Xbox avatars as a response to Nintendo's everybody-friendly Mii's, and Nintendo certainly didn't think of the idea before Rare.

At least, that's the spin being given the whole story by Rare this week. Take it or leave it, the developers at Microsoft-owned Rare said it was all just a matter of coincidental timing.

"The planets just aligned a little bit," said Rare artist Lee Musgrave in a video interview with Eurogamer TV. "It was an idea that we had before Miis were a part of the gaming scene."

According to the info set forth in the interview, rather than being a knee-jerk reaction to Miis, Rare was working on customizable characters and ways to implement them into Xbox 360 games long before the first upside-down face Mii marched in a Mii Parade.

"Microsoft did not turn up in a speeding car one day and say, 'They've got Miis! Do something!'" Musgrave said.

The whole thing begs a hypothetical, however. If the everyone-friendly Wii wasn't hands-down the best selling, most popular video game console on the planet right now, would Microsoft have bothered with Rare's experimental avatars at all?

Last night I "worked-out" with the Wii fit...  I hula hooped, and ran in place, watching the TV as I was chasing another Mii and then a virtual dog... it was fun and stuff, but...

Today, though I live not 10 minutes from the beach... I went swimming in a pool....

We have traded in so many great things, for cheap substitutes...

real fruit juice for Kool-Aid

real contact for Poking people on Facebook

Intimacy for Pornography

Real Conversation for Text Messages

Hand Written letters for email or wall comments

It's just not how it's supposed to be....

There are so many options for crafting avatars that Mediasapien decided to kick the tires and road test some of them.  Using a decidedly unscientific protocol, each will be put to the test using a single person as the model.  Since many of these apps are geared towards kids and tweens, there are plenty of options for making slender, emo-ish, Jonas Brothers and Miley inspired avi’s.   So in order to make the test challenging, we’ll pick a person who is generally familiar looking but definitely not a typical user of avatar-based games and entertainment - someone older, rounder, less willowy.  Naturally I’m talking about the Hedgehog himself, Ron Jeremy.   Ron is a beautiful Adonis of a man, with an amorous appetite to match.  The years may have tried their best to curse him, but he defies the ravages of time – mostly.  His hairline may be receding a bit and his ‘stashe peppered with grey, his belly may be a few inches larger than in his glory days, but he still retains all the charm and charisma for which he is known – his 9 3/4” dick (unverified).  

So RJ is the perfect model for our test.  Some of the apps will handle the Hedgehog with ease, while many others simply don’t offer wide enough options.  Few if any will include his "charm".  Here are some of my results: