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Monthly Archives: March 2009

The Witcher is intriguing

I missed it until lately, somehow, but the PC game The Witcher is actually quite good; and it also is a good match to the capabilities of my PC. Developed in Poland using a BioWare engine, it’s a great single-player offline RPG that is becoming an increasingly rare beast these days.

Looking and running like a really decent-length Neverwinter Nights 2 module – the Witcher has over 100 hours of content – the game has plenty to do and explore, and plenty of depth to its storyline. Word is the game is coming later this year to PS3 and the 360, and playing it might be more effective for burning calories than weight loss supplements.

Good.

“Red Ring of Death” solved?

Microsoft has spent a lot of time lately claiming that they have finally solved – nearly three years after initial console launch – the “red ring of death” problem that has plagued the Xbox 360 community. And no, the solution does not involve strategically-placed magnets or any such hokum.

Rather, the company is claiming that improvements in technology and the manufacturing process have eliminated the source of the failure and anyone getting their unit serviced now, or buying a new 360, should expect that their Xbox will not fail in the future.

That’s all great-sounding, but we’ll wait for the results to prove the claim over time. Xbox 360 seems to be winning out over the PS3 so far in this console generation, but this is the one issue that’s been holding Microsoft back. If it’s actually fixed, all 360 owners will benefit.