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What’s Steve Ballmer’s favourite Xbox game?
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
When he opened the floor for questions at the end of a speech on cloud computing this morning, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer could hardly have expected the question posed to him by one plucky economics student: what’s your favourite Xbox game?
Ballmer thought for a second or two, before leaping to his feet to deliver his answer. Would the über-macho Microsoft boss pick something brutal, such as Halo or Call of Duty? Or what about a title his boardroom buddies could empathise with, such as Tiger Woods PGA Tour?
Nope. Instead 54-year-old Steven Anthony Ballmer beamed the broadest of smiles and in entirely typical fashion yelled: “Beach Volleyball, baby!”
I wonder why that 2003 title has remained in his affections for so long???
In defence of patching, crashing and tinkering
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
PC gaming gets a bad rap, especially from the console crowd – whereas they rock up, slide a disk into their slot-loading optical drive and play away, enjoying the latest games on the PC is, well, a more frustrating, long-winded and drawn-out experience – and it’s all the better for it.
Ask any avid PC gamer and they’ll regale you with stories of the many hours spent getting their machine to work at all. Putting in a new graphics card sounds like a basic upgrade but can often deteriorate into a horrendous rigmarole of driver updates and seemingly random problems and crashes. And that’s a relatively simple upgrade.
I should know the pain of upgrading: I recently built a new PC from scratch. My old rig really wasn’t cut out for gaming any more – it ran on integrated graphics and had no PCI Express slot – so it was definitely time for a change.
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