Issues being resolved, says the Major.img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/352/f/4737/s/267e40d/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=News: Microsoft working to fix NXE "hiccups" (Xbox 360)link=http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=309816" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=News: Microsoft working to fix NXE "hiccups" (Xbox 360)link=http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=309816" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192689589/u/89/f/4737/c/352/s/40363021/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192689589/u/89/f/4737/c/352/s/40363021/a2.img" border="0"//a

Major Nelson has posted an update relating to the New Xbox Experience and notes that MS is aware some of you are experiencing a 'few hiccups along the way'. Just a few hiccups major? We'd hardly called reports of RRoD's a hiccup. Anyway, he continues that the team is looking into it and working on the issues...

Fable II Delayed @ Kotaku
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Behind The Scenes @ FileShack
NXE Avatar Fashions Planned Every 2 Weeks @ Joystiq
New Xbox Experience Having Launch Day Hiccups @ Shacknews
Vin Diesel's Wheelman Scheduled for February @ VE3D

via Eurogamer


SEGA and Sports Interactive have said Football Manager 2009 still suffers from authentication problems, most of which are the result of new PC DRM software.
"After prolonged issues with pre-release piracy, this year SEGA and Sports Interactive decided to implement a new copy-protection system for Football Manager 2009," says the publisher in a statement.

"The incorporation of Uniloc's copy-protection system for the game has unfortunately caused a number of unexpected difficulties which SEGA would like to explain to any customers who may have experienced problems authenticating their copy of Football Manager 2009 since it launched on Friday November 14th."The first problem was a printing hiccup with the game manuals, we're told, which resulted in characters looking similar and causing lots of confusion. They must mean characters Zippy and Bungle. [Better jokes please. - Ed]

The second problem was a DDoS attack on the authentication servers, through which the telephone authentication servers also run, thus putting both out of action. Apparently some of these phone lines are still out of order, but online authentication should be okay.
"SEGA and Sports Interactive take pride in producing the very best Football Manager year on year, and regret that this unfortunate situation has arisen," adds the statement.

"SEGA and Sports Interactive would like to unequivocally apologise to any customers who have experienced difficulties in authenticating their game, restate their desire to solve every issue encountered in the process, and enable all customers to be able to play and enjoy Football Manager 2009."

It's just been a few short months since Neuros started shipping its OSD 2.0 set-top box, but it looks like the company is now already moving on to other devices that are equally boxy and open source-y. It's latest is the Neuros LINK, which promises to let you watch videos from Hulu, YouTube and other sites on your TV without a subscription courtesy of Neuros' own Neuros.TV service. Unlike the OSD, however, it doesn't look like the LINK has any internal storage of its own (at least beyond the bare necessity), but it does have a generous six USB ports to let you hook up some drives filled with music, photos or videos. Otherwise, you can expect both HDMI and optical S/PDIF outputs, as well as gigabit ethernet, 802.11b/g WiFi, and an included wireless "keymote" complete with a trackball. According to Neuros, while the device is available now for $300, it's still in a "gamma release," which means is primarily aimed at early adopters wiling to accept a few hiccups along the way.

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div align="center"a href="http://www.neurostechnology.com/neuros-link"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/neuros-link-and-keymote.jpg" //abr / div align="left"It's just been a few short months since Neuros started shipping its a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/17/neuros-ships-hd-capable-osd-2-0-set-top-box/"OSD 2.0 set-top box/a, but it looks like the company is now already moving on to other devices that are equally boxy and open source-y. It's latest is the Neuros LINK, which promises to let you watch videos from Hulu, YouTube and other sites on your TV without a subscription courtesy of Neuros' own Neuros.TV service. Unlike the OSD, however, it doesn't look like the LINK has any internal storage of its own (at least beyond the bare necessity), but it does have a generous six USB ports to let you hook up some drives filled with music, photos or videos. Otherwise, you can expect both HDMI and optical S/PDIF outputs, as well as gigabit ethernet, 802.11b/g WiFi, and an included wireless "keymote" complete with a trackball. According to Neuros, while the device is available now for $300, it's still in a "gamma release," which means is primarily aimed at early adopters wiling to accept a few hiccups along the way.br /br /[Thanks, a href="http://www.glitterparade.com/"Charles V/a, a href="http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-11/neuros-unveils-next-gen-hardware/"Zatz/a]br //div /divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/homeentertainment/" rel="tag"Home Entertainment/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/neuros-intros-web-video-playing-neuros-link/"Neuros intros web video-playing Neuros LINK/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:01:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.neurostechnology.com/neuros-linkRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/neuros-intros-web-video-playing-neuros-link/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1377029/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/neuros-intros-web-video-playing-neuros-link/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/-zJ7tBEgPAAC0co-fM51BuW2_3A/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/-zJ7tBEgPAAC0co-fM51BuW2_3A/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=GTBV7HVP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=GTBV7HVP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=WNYVWlfI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=WNYVWlfI" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/BPPML_SefFE" height="1" width="1"/

p"Tainted Love" is a guilty pleasure? Really? Seriously? a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w37thYX6aYM" target="_blank"strongThe Pussycat Dolls/strong/a or a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQuKo3SevVA" target="_blank"strongMarilyn Manson/strong/a maybe, but not Soft Cell and certainly not a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U" target="_blank"strongGloria Jones/strong/a. stronga href="http://www.mybrightestdiamond.com/"strongMy Brightest Diamond/strong/a/strong cover the song for a href="/article/news/147562-my-brightest-diamond-frightened-rabbit-do-covers" target="_self"strongemGuilt By Association Vol. 2/em/strong/a, a sequel to the a href="/article/record_review/45156-guilt-by-association" target="_self"strongproblematic 2007 collection/strong/a on Engine Room. The whole concept comes across as patronizing, as if any song that falls outside the accepted definition of "indie rock" can only be enjoyed with some knee-jerk admission of shame.nbsp;/p pFortunately, My Brightest Diamond don't approach the song with any irony. Instead, they buy into its shuddery momentum and hip-shaking melodrama wholesale. Over a high-hat-and-snare-rim drumbeat, a plushy bassline, and quivering strings, Shara Worden draws the title's three syllables into a kiss-off, cutting off "loooove" with a flirtatious hiccup. One minute she's making those signature whoa-oa-oa's sound decadently deadpan, the next she's channeling her inner Gloria Gaynor. Worden never tries to convince you that the song is great; she trusts the song to sell itself./p pstrongMP3:gt;/strong a href="http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/My%20Brightest%20Diamond%20-%20Tainted%20Love.mp3" target="_blank"span style="text-decoration: underline;"My Brightest Diamond: "Tainted Love"/span/abr /[from emGuilt by Association Volume 2/em; due 02/17/09 on stronga href="http://www.engineroomrecordings.com/" target="_blank"Engine Room/a/strong]/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/kjPgWJjMN95jkOatoNhwp13HgsU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/kjPgWJjMN95jkOatoNhwp13HgsU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/0qSdBkjeY-w" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/storage/" rel="tag"Storage/a/pa href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/TDK-Launches-UDMA-6-Compatible/story.aspx?guid=%7B0B2EA696-3D64-4DC6-AB89-8FFC0E862436%7D"img vspace="16" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/11-18-08-tdk-ssds-.jpg" alt="" //aNot just everyone can get away with consumer-level kit, and if you plan on keeping that emCounter-Strike/em server running for another four years without so much as a hiccup, you should probably look into some industrial-strength materials. To that end, we present to you a new pair from a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/TDK/"TDK/a: a U.DMA 6-compatible CompactFlash card and a line of PATA SSDs, both of which boast a maximum capacity of 16GB. Both lines combine the original GBDriver RA8 U.DMA 6-compatible NAND Flash memory controller with a high-frequency SLC NAND Flash memory module for read speeds of up to 50MB/sec and write speeds up to 30MB/sec. You'll also find an error correction function scalable to 15 bit/sector ECC to provide high data reliability -- remember, zero hiccups -- and a static wear leveling function to greatly increase the write life span. Sadly, no pricing figures are disclosed, but both crews should start shipping next month.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tdk-firms-up-industrial-grade-udma-6-cf-and-ssd-1823207/"SlashGear/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/tdk-trots-out-industrial-compactflash-cards-ssds/"TDK trots out industrial CompactFlash cards / SSDs/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/TDK-Launches-UDMA-6-Compatible/story.aspx?guid=%7B0B2EA696-3D64-4DC6-AB89-8FFC0E862436%7DRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/tdk-trots-out-industrial-compactflash-cards-ssds/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1376067/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/tdk-trots-out-industrial-compactflash-cards-ssds/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5e3OFvO0x9wdrv5GXl_rPEGs2Aw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5e3OFvO0x9wdrv5GXl_rPEGs2Aw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=dHYQnXbb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=dHYQnXbb" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=uOEgjUya"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=uOEgjUya" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/guOlZeF9Zb0" height="1" width="1"/

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Not just everyone can get away with consumer-level kit, and if you plan on keeping that Counter-Strike server running for another four years without so much as a hiccup, you should probably look into some industrial-strength materials. To that end, we present to you a new pair from TDK: a U.DMA 6-compatible CompactFlash card and a line of PATA SSDs, both of which boast a maximum capacity of 16GB. Both lines combine the original GBDriver RA8 U.DMA 6-compatible NAND Flash memory controller with a high-frequency SLC NAND Flash memory module for read speeds of up to 50MB/sec and write speeds up to 30MB/sec. You'll also find an error correction function scalable to 15 bit/sector ECC to provide high data reliability -- remember, zero hiccups -- and a static wear leveling function to greatly increase the write life span. Sadly, no pricing figures are disclosed, but both crews should start shipping next month.

[Via SlashGear]

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/online/" rel="tag"Online/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=637410"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="355" border="1" align="top" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/firesoran.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Epic's Rod Fergusson has a href="http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=637410"acknowledged/a that "longer-than-ideal wait times" are being experienced by those in a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/gears-of-war-2"emGears of War 2/em/a's multiplayer matchmaking. He explains the issue is complicated and that there "isn't any one problem" causing the extended waits. The company is currently working with Microsoft to resolve the issue and hopes to have an update soon.br /br /In the meantime, Fergusson has some helpful suggestions for those plagued with issues:br / ul liIf you're stuck in a matchmaking loop where it keeps restarting, try a different list. It's a "possible population issue."/li liIssues seem to be "heightened" for parties of one and four. He recommends having a friend if you're flying solo./li liHaving a group of five pretty much alleviates all issues./li /ul Or, if you're feeling obstinate that the system should work as intended, you can always pass the time with some reading material. We've been catching up on our 19th-century English literature. emVanity Fair/em is quite good.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/11/17/epic-addresses-gears-of-war-2-matchmaking-hiccups-still-no-fix/#comments"X3F/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/epic-addresses-gears-2-matchmaking-woes/"Epic addresses Gears 2 matchmaking woes/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:40:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=637410Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/epic-addresses-gears-2-matchmaking-woes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1375714/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/18/epic-addresses-gears-2-matchmaking-woes/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/mUs9Q0MGcR9Xl6QeOQzui8aSH8g/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/mUs9Q0MGcR9Xl6QeOQzui8aSH8g/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=Cje0ghqi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=Cje0ghqi" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=TKxhB6Wh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=TKxhB6Wh" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/xDhd8fsqrV4" height="1" width="1"/