Xbox Live Friends For OS X Updates
Mindquirk Software has released version 2.02 of Xbox Live Friends for Mac OS X. This version fixes a problem with auto sign-in that appeared as a result of changes at Xbox.com
Death by intelligence.
Mindquirk Releases New Halo-Related OS X Apps
Mindquirk software has released a revamped version of its Xbox Live Friends application that includes a Dashboard widget, as well as a new application, Emblem Designer, for previewing Xbox Live emblems on your Mac. Emblem Designer, as well as Mindquirk's other Halo app, xstats, all part of Mindquirk's Live Suite, require OS X 10.4. Xbox Live Friends runs on 10.3 or above.
Exposing Ten MacIntel Myths
Rampancy's roots lie next to Bungie's, which is to say, in an Apple orchard. Halo was originally announced at MacWorld in 1999 as a game that was supposed to ship on Macs (and PCs, of course) in early 2000. Of course, lots has changed since then, and for those who still have an interest in Macs at all, as I do, this week was full of discussion about the interesting news that Apple will begin making computers with Intel CPUs next year and conclude 2007 by converting their entire line.
Ten Myths About Intel Macs
Not even a week has elapsed since what was a rumor picked up as a scoop by News.com became confirmed truth by the power of Steve Jobs' renowned Reality Distortion Field.
IMG Hosts Stubbs The Zombie Trailer
Tuncer Deniz has posted at IMG Magazine that they are hosting a 25 Mb QuickTime version of the Stubbs the Zombie trailer; earlier it was available in WMV format at MTV.com. The modified Halo-engine third-person action game comes out this year for Mac OS X, Windows, and the Xbox.
Mac Halo Experience Calculator Released
[image:9494 align=left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] Infernus has released the Macintosh version of his Halo 2 Experience Calculator application. It allows you to enter your Bungie.net level as well as the levels of players you win or lose to, and it will calculate the change in your experience points. You can download Mac Halo 2 Experience Calculator here.
Halo And Xbox News Roundup For June 2, 2005
- The Xbox 360 is currently beating the PlayStation 3 in Voodoo Extreme's poll.
- Joe "Dyslexia" Renaud wrote a review of the Xbox 360's MTV unveiling two weeks ago, but we missed it.
Halo And Xbox News Roundup For May 30
- Frankie's What's What Update for May 27 still doesn't answer the questions on everyone's minds, namely if and when Bungie is making Halo 3. It does say that Marathon for the Xbox is "next door to impossible" and that Bungie is busy on its next project.
Mac Halo Will Be Patched
MacSoft support has confirmed by email that Mac Halo will get a patch to bring it back into sync with the recently-released 1.07 patch for the PC client and server.
Happy Birthday PlayMyth; MWC 2005 In June
PlayMyth turned three years old earlier this week. Check PlayMyth for all the latest Myth news.
Random Rant: E3 From Minimum Safe Distance
Price points, smack talk, mac talk, and rip, mod and burn today in a specially-compressed E3 2005 random edition of Narc's Rants. I'm not at E3, so the rose-colored glasses are off.
Random Rants For E3 2005
So much has gone on recently that it's almost impossible to write a complete piece on each one before the news recedes into obscurity. Here are a few items of note and my take on each, then, before things pile up so high I can't get out from under them:
By their prices, you shall know them
One Secret Of The Xbox's Success
As the world bathes in the offwhite glow of the Xbox 360, take a moment to ponder one of the hidden sources of the Xbox's rise from unknown quantity to major player, as a sometimes-partner, sometimes-rival of Microsoft's gives an unintended boost to the company's fledgling game console.
Unsung Hero Of The Xbox Saga
It didn't take a lot for Microsoft, one of the richest and most powerful companies in the world, to find a market to compete in where they would be widely viewed as the underdog. Just Sony, another of the richest and most powerful companies in the world.
Microsoft Kicks The Dog?
Robert X. Cringely's latest I, Cringely column looks at three major changes, or "inflection points", as he refers to them with all due credit to Intel's Andy Grove, happening in the computer-audio-video-entertainment convergence we've all been waiting for now for nearly a decade. Those changes involve Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Google.