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Dec 21
Demo: Halo Wars
Feb 5
Demo: Halo Wars – Xbox Live’s Major Nelson – From what I’ve seen this is an RTS (real time strategdy) game in the Halo world on an Xbox 360. I hope they pulled off a good interface. I think I would miss a mouse with these types of games.
Xbox Live’s Major Nelson : Demo: Command and Conquer 3 – Another thing to try 
GRAW 2 Multiplayer Demo
Mar 2
Xbox Live’s Major Nelson : Demo: GRAW 2 MP Dem – Somthing new to try .
Boom!!! – The Package
Sep 25
OneMoreLevel.com – The Package – This was fun. It’s a flash game and you have to defuse a bomb. My guess is you’d have to be a geek (or nerd ) to get this.
I played twice. The first time I made it to the end, but got it because I guessed. The second time, I figured it out. Guessing isn’t any fun, so try and figure it out . I ain’t talkin’!
Found via digg.com
This has the potential to be the next Halo for Xbox 360 from what I have read. I am pretty excited they’ve announced a date: November 12, 2006. Hmm.. maybe I oughta finish Halo 2 sometime.
Xbox Live’s Major Nelson : News: Emergence Day Announced
Animal Crossing gift available for download – DS Fanboy – It’s goofy stuff like this that make me want to try this Animal Crossing stuff.
DS Wireless stuff is pretty neat. A buddy of mine finally has a DS and we unlocked a Nintedog with each other recently. Kinda cool, but I didn’t like the dog I got! He got a cool mini-daucshund out of the trade.
This has been in my drafts for months. Just for completeness, I am still posting this (even though it is older than dirt now.)
WoW General Discussion – This was found in one of the forums. It’s in that pretty blue color which means it’s from an WoW representative, I think.
Apologies for the length of time it took to get this information out to you.
We encourage community building among our players with others of similar interests, and we understand that guilds are one of the primary ways to forge these communities. However, topics related to sensitive real-world subjects — such as religious, sexual, or political preference, for example — have had a tendency to result in communication between players that often breaks down into harassment.
To promote a positive game environment for everyone and help prevent such harassment from taking place as best we can, we prohibit mention of topics related to sensitive real-world subjects in open chat within the game, and we do our best to take action whenever we see such topics being broadcast. This includes openly advertising a guild friendly to players based on a particular political, sexual, or religious preference, to list a few examples. For guilds that wish to use such topics as part of their recruiting efforts, our Guild Recruitment forum, located at our community Web site, serves as one open avenue for doing so.
We will be clarifying some of the language in our game policies in order to help avoid such confusion in the future.
Reading this response makes it clear that Blizzard isn’t stopping the guilds from forming. It just prevents recruitment inside the game via open chat.
This may be sensible and I think I agree with this.
Another link is here: Blizzard apologizes for GLBT guild warning | News.blog | CNET News.com
The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II for Xbox 360 Review
And, yes, the big surprise is that here’s a real-time strategy game that works on a console, and the world didn’t come to an end.
I am very pleasantly surprised. Playing the demo with the tutorial really shows that a console controller can do an RTS game. I didn’t think there was anyway in heck it would work well.
Try the demo before you buy though. It’s very different than a keyboard and mouse. There’s a chance you may not like it (that’s what demos are for.)
In Newsweekly -.- Gaming -.- Blizzard of GLBT gaming policy questions – This is depressing. If all this is true, I am disappointed in Blizzard for the first time ever. They’ve made so many great games and made them for the Mac.
I do enjoy playing World of Warcraft, but it is tiring to read “That’s so gay” from other players (usually used as a negative remark.) It is one of the reasons I still want to find gay folks to play with (lack of time has prevented me from really doing this, but there are others who want the same thing.)
Hey Blizzard, knock it off. Let people with common interests find one another in the game!
Update: Neat quote at Boing Boing: World of Warcraft: Don’t tell anyone you’re queer
In real life, you can be a citizen with rights. In gamelife, you’re a customer with a license agreement.
Update: Another link: Online game warns gay-lesbian guild | CNET News.com