XBLN LIVE! Is Back

XBLN LIVE! is back. xsgt Meatloaf and myself played a test game on Madden and all went well. We will explore new ways to utilize XBLN LIVE!, as we do, tune in to here for any projects for XBLN LIVE!

A couple of things I noticed are that we cannot broadcast a live feed in HD just yet but we can broadcast a pre-recorded video in HD. We will try to figure out how to do Live HD soon! Also, we need to find a good balance for bandwidth allocation during Live broadcasts. As we get the kinks out, XBLN LIVE! will be what we always wanted it to be.

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EA Announce Need For Speed: Shift

EA announced Need for Speed: Shift today which is due out this Autumn. Need for Speed: Shift will be aimed at the racing gamer looking for a realistic experience. It is being developed by Slightly Mad Studios, which is known for their past realistic racers. Games over the past few years have been developed by EA Black Box. The same developers of the Skate and NBA Live Series.

Official Press Release:

Shift into high gear! Designed to deliver a true driver’s experience that reflects contemporary motorsports, Need for Speed SHIFT is built by racers for racers. Need for Speed SHIFT delivers an authentic and immersive driving experience developed by Slightly Mad Studios in collaboration with executive producer Michael Mann at Black Box and senior vice president Patrick Soderlund at EA Games Europe. Slightly Mad Studios includes developers and designers that worked on the critically acclaimed games GT Legends and GTR 2. Need for Speed SHIFT replicates the true feeling of racing high-end performance cars like never before. Players are thrust into the heart of the action with immersive and exciting features including a stunningly realistic first-person cockpit view camera and an all-new crash mechanic, providing an unrivalled sensation of the speed and feeling of racing a car on the extreme edge of control.

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Madden NFL 10: Brand New Appraoch?

Info I recieved straight from EA Sports about Madden NFL 10:

"At the start of the year when we all joined the team, we all got in a room and immediately came to a unanimous decision on what Madden NFL 10 was going to be all about. You saw it in the title of the post, but I’ll say it again: “Everything you see on Sunday, see it in Madden NFL”. “What does that mean?” you may ask…well it means that we have one goal, and that is to make an NFL football game that is as true to life as possible.

We aren’t about gimmicks; we aren’t about fluff; we aren’t about catering to glitchers or cheaters. We’re focused on emulating what you as an NFL fan are used to seeing on TV, and what many of you players and coaches have seen on the field. For every single update we provide you with throughout this year, feel free to call us out if anything doesn’t stand up to our new mantra."

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