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Jan
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So, I actually bothered watching the live stream of Bill Gates’ keynote at CES – I love insomnia sometimes. All in all it was relatively interesting, I paid special attention to the Xbox 360 section which announced their IPTV service (no details and cynicism/experience tells me it’ll be US only). Some cross-platform features of Xbox Live and Vista were mentioned, I like the idea but it’ll be a while before it really catches on with PC users. I posted my live notes about the Xbox 360 portion on the forums of the GamerCast Network, if you don’t know about them please download and listen to their excellent podcasts, I listen to the Video Game Show, but they also host the extremely popular GamerTag Radio and Uncle Gamer Radio.
There was also a bit of blathering about how great everyone thinks Gears of War is, I personally wasn’t that fussed – if they made an FPS that was equally good looking I might be interested but as far as I’m concerned it looks great but plays distinctly average. I heard someone describe it as a pretty version of whack-a-mole and honestly that’s exactly what it is.
They demoed some cool features in Vista which should be good once they’ve been service-packed to hell, my favourite was the integration with the Xbox 360 controller – I’ve got to find some use for the handful of spares I have lying around. Other than that it was relatively uninspiring, they had the balls to mention both Urge and Zune even though they’re both different incompatible products trying to achieve the same aim.