During the New Year holiday, I remembered that my attempt to play online was severally rejected. After a few trial with different servers, I felt hopeless and ended watch tv. Many blogs after the night came out with the issues of Xbox Live connection problem and one of my friend, Soby made a joke that somebody might sue Microsoft about the trouble that everybody faced thru, and yup he was damn true!

Read the rest of this entry »

Midway had released a downloadable map pack for the acclaimed 3rd person action adventure title, Stranglehold, for the Xbox 360 video game system. The map pack features 10 additional multiplayer maps ranging from the Kowloon Market to Wong’s Estate Grounds to the Rooftops of Chicago, as well as 21 all-new multiplayer character skins.

The Xbox 360 version will include 10 new achievements worth 250 points. Rated “M” for mature by the ESRB, the Stranglehold downloadable map pack is available now in North America via Xbox LIVE, and is coming soon to the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network.

via xbox360 game zone

January 2 saw the biggest ever number of concurrent members using the service. Over the holiday, Xbox LIVE has suffered various problem including problems signing into the service and difficulty recovering accounts. Below is the the open letter from Marc Whitten regarding this issue.

Read the rest of this entry »

Apple had finally released the latest OS X 10.5 Friday, Oct 26 at 6pm. Since the release of Tiger, Apple is finally ready to unleash Leopard upon the world.

The Apple online store is taking pre-orders as of yesterday. Anyone who has purchased a qualifying Mac since October 1st will be able to obtain the updated OS for only $9.95 in shipping.

Read the rest of this entry »

Apple is going to release latest version of its OS, update to its current OS version 10.4.9. Where the 1.4 is the branch of the operating system, the .9 is the point update.

The question us where is the Leopard? Where is the announcement. The early prediction is Apple going to release by the end of March or early April. Or the release date may slip until September 2007?