I demand achievements for Minesweeper. I'm thinking
- 20g - beat easy in under 20 seconds - 30g - beat intermediate in under 100 seconds - 20g - beat all modes - 50g - beat expert without using a flag - 30g - challenge a friend to a Minesweeper race - 20g - add your score to the online leaderboards
Windows 8 looks kinda crazy. it looks like they're going all-in with tablets. I have no idea how they're going to make this friendly for traditional PCs.
i like the whole ebb and flow of the windows os (ME bad, XP good, Vista bad, 7 good). i predict windows 8 will be a failure. they will work on it and tune it up for version 9 and that will be better.
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The word "friend" has been made meaningless due to social networking sites.
XBL on PC isn't big news unless it has like, full support for all XBLA games or something crazy like that
this just looks horrible because it's like microsoft is ignorant of the fact that people get tablets and smartphones as a supplement to their PC's or laptops, not to replace them. do they really think traditional mouse+keyboard computers are just going to disappear in the next few years?
they've been working on this since the 360's start. games for windows was all about this. the eventual road is being with the game for PC and your 360 and the two able to share everything, but until then it'll probably just allow for co-op between 'em.
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The future must protect the clone's past. "Maybe it's a tentacle, molesting the planet itself. - Aschen Brodel.