Gamerscore blog wrote up a new article that lists ten new live arcade titles for the next bit. The titles will be released on the regular Arcade Wednesdays. For me the list has its highs and lows. I am a big fan of the Castlevania and Worms titles but the titles from Midway are a little bit of a disapointment. Sure, I can get the Xbox Live Arcade versions.. but I already have the Midway Arcade Treasures games and don’t feel like buying the same thing more than once. So that means no Root Beer Tapper or Paperboy for me. That just leaves the original titles which I have no clue what to expect. Regardless, it’s good to see some new content up on the Live Arcade.
My wish list when it comes to the Arcade would be for some of Sega’s arcade titles. There were quite a few classic games from Sega that I’m sure people would love. I remember all the good times playing Shenmue and just going to the Arcade. As well, an arcade controller would be sweet for some of the classic arcade titles.
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On January 17, 2007, FCC Chairman Chris Martin mentioned that “there’s a prohibition on one entity owning both of those licenses.” This was in the reference to the SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: XMSR) merger discussion. This kind of statement seems like a common response by a person high up at the FCC. If he had said anything else, it would suggest the FCC was in favour of antitrust action before a study was conducted on whether the merger would in fact be considered an monopoly. Now that all depends on how you look at it: if you only looked at satellite radio then yes the new company would be a monopoly; although, if you considered all forms of mobile entertainment as competition, then it would most definitely not be a monopoly.
Investors however don’t respond well to news like this. After Chris Martin’s comments, shares of XM dropped about 10 percent to close at $15.45 while Sirius shares fell by about 7 percent to $3.86. Not surprising at all since these were probably the same investors raising the stock last week when the merger talks were really starting to heat up. I have a sneaky feeling that this won’t be the last we hear about a possible merger though. Both the satellite radio companies are facing a lot of competition from the mobile music market and need to do something to stay ahead.
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I don’t know whats going on. For the first three quarters of 2006 I hardly I bought any Xbox 360 games. Then in the last couple months now, I have bought way too many games. I am going to blame this one on peer pressure. I have bought: Ridge Race 6, Gears of War, The Outfit, Lego Star Wars, Viva Pinata, and Rainbow Six Vegas. So, I have all these new games and I still have older games which I have barely played.. or not at all as is the case with Oblivion. I suppose it only makes sense that I should start to play more games just when school gets back into my schedule. The one motivational factor that makes me keep playing.. GAMERSCORE.. but thats another story for another post!
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Starting next week, I will be back in school. It has been a while since I’ve been fully in school. I was last in class at the beginning of April. This semester I will be in 5 classes; CS201, CS310, Econ331, Stats254, Classics100. All of these classes should be interesting. I imagine that CS310 will be the most difficult class as I didn’t like Math 221, which is basically the same material. The other classes should range from fun to boring but I am looking forward to my return.
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While reading some info about wind power, I noticed someones post and they linked to a very unique site. The site is called One Billion Bulbs, and it lets people sign up and post about changing their light bulbs from standard incandescent light bulbs to more energy efficient CFL bulbs. The site seems like a good cause and hopefully will motivate more people to consider the switch. The overall goal for the site is to switch over 1 billion bulbs. The site seems rather new as the number isn’t very high yet, only 8,456 as I write this.
In my house, we have been slowly changing over all our light bulbs to the compact fluorescents. The whole movement towards the CFL bulbs is that they reduce energy usage, so its win-win. You have a reduced energy bill and the environment is cleaner. Be sure to check out the site and read up on light bulb technology!
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