3 million units of Gears of War sold

The XBox 360 number one tittle has reached the mark of 3 million copies sold in the time of 10 weeks.

It started being the best-seller of December in any platform, sold 1 million copies before we could blink, and it has now reached the 3 million cypher which puts this game directly in the list of big games like other franchises (see Zelda, Halo, Metal Gear Solid or Final Fantasy):

"Like Blockbuster titles from Microsoft's Halo franchise and the Grand Theft Auto and Zelda franchises, Gears of War is tracking to be one of the best-selling videogames of all time and has established itself as the most successful new IP of the next-generation," said Microsoft marketing VP Jeff Bell.

A new way of making music (youtube)

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So long no blogging

Hey there!

So long no talk, how ya doin'?

I've been very lazy lately to post something, but at last I decided to make a blog entry and tell what I've been doing these few weeks!

Well, the most remarkable stuff I did was the update we made in our computers (my brother and I) and the new monitor my brother got himself. Apart of that, I have to say that I've been very obsessed with chess this time (and still I am). I'm taking classes since October or so, and I kinda like it pretty much. I won a trophy in a tournament!! I was the third in my category (people below 18).

The update consisted on new motherboard, new processor, a new graphic card and memory ram for the new motherboard (which is DDR2 instead of DDR as the old one). The Motherboard as you can see in the pic below is an Asus AM2...., the processor an AMD64 AM2 3500+, the graphic card an ATi X1300PRO PCI-Express and the RAM memory a 1GB module at 533Mhz.

And here I leave some pics of all that :-)

The Wide 20,1' screen.

Playing Gears of War.

The components we bought.

The new components almost plugged in.

The Trophy.

Ah! And almost forget, I also got a digital camera (I didn't have one yet!) and since the old video camera got broken, we bought a new one.
For the 360, we got two new games: Fifa 07 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Both great games.

I hope I can be more active on the blog now, there's a lot to tell! This year is going to be full of great stuff when it comes to computers ;-)

Windows Vista RTM Ultimate installed

Thanks my very good friend Johann I got Windows Vista installed right into my computer. This is a happy day :D
I like it all from it, from the installation time (20, 25 mins?), to the stability and speed, and the great aero experience.

I'm a linux boy sometimes, but I have to admit that Microsoft has done his job with Windows Vista, and (forgive me Gates' haters) it's definitely a great Operating System.

The specs? Who said you needed a 2 thousand dollars pc? I'm running it so smoothly (with Glass) in an AMD Sempron 2800+, 1.5GB of RAM DDR 400Mhz, and an AGP gfx card ATi Radeon 9600PRO 256MB. More than enough.

One of the things that impressed me the most is the new Windows Media Center. Both the new interface and the media management is so great to access it remotely from an XBox 360. Thank you Microsoft.



I'll keep you updated if I find problems or anything like that.

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Yesssss, the new year is here, with hope and a lot of things to come. The best luck for this new year if you have been good, and three red lights for the bad ones!