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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - Posts

Jump Rope Ad Wins ADDY Award

posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:12 PM by johnporcaro
Congrats to the ad guys, and especially to our advertising firm, McCann Erickson, for winning the prestigious "ADDY" award for the Xbox 360 Jump Rope spot.  Of course since then, you've seen three others in the "series:" Water Balloons, Joy, Read More
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Backwards Compatibility Update Now Live

posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:43 AM by johnporcaro
Just got word that the new update is live.  I popped Lego Star Wars in my Xbox 360 before I left for work, and reveled in its Lego-ness.  More details, including the updated list, are on Xbox.com. June 2006 titles added:1.   4x4 Read More
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The Battle for Middle-earth II Xbox 360 - Community Day

posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:30 AM by cesarmenendez
Bastelyon took time away from his only real secondary job responsibility - getting his gamerscore up to 10k - to organize a BFME2 community day. So last week (Thursday) we had a few folks from the Xbox and gaming community, Read More
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Update to the Update

posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:00 AM by johnporcaro
I heard that the console team is pushing out an update to the code that went out last week.  Nothing major, no new features or anything like that.  I hear they needed to make a very small change to improve character recognition for the Chinese Read More
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