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Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix

Thanks to our friends with the Microsoft Automotive team I had the privilege to join them for this past weekends Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix . I have never attended an IRL, Le Mans Series or an SCCA SPEED World event so I got to experience all three in one location. It was a great event! Being a guest...

Posted to Tom Edwards (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-03-2008
Game of the Week - Ninja Gaiden II

One of my all time favorite games was the original Ninja Gaiden on the NES. I still remember the opening cut scenes ... that was all about the story that you needed to know... you knew it was time to start slashing away. When I first heard the news about Ninja Gaiden II I was immediately hooked. When...

Posted to Tom Edwards (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008
Game of the Week: Gears of War 2

When the dust settled on the original Gears of War release over four million copies were sold and some of the highest critical praise of any title on the 360 to date. So it is easy to say that the expectations around Gears of War 2 are pretty high. Epic Games is the studio behind Gears of War 2 and the...

Posted to Tom Edwards (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-19-2008
Interview with Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb

During GDC 2008 I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb of the Xbox Live team. Larry is the Director of Xbox Live Programming and is the author of one of the most popular gaming blogs on the web. Between posts, blogcasts and twitter Major keeps everyone up to...

Posted to Tom Edwards (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-21-2008
CES Day 3

Coming to you live from Las Vegas at CES 2008. Today was another good day. After some early meetings with the Microsoft Vista team and the High Tech team it was on to the convention floor for additional networking. There were 35 football fields worth of booths and exhibits. There was a very large focus...

Posted to Tom Edwards (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-09-2008
30,000 and the Future

One of the best features that the Xbox team introduced was tying in game achievements to a publically viewable profile. What this allowed was for you as a gamer to start building gaming "equity" over time that could then be shared and compared with your friends and others in the gaming community...

Posted to Tom Edwards (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-19-2007
Partners

As Partner Account Manager at Telligent, the topic of the Partner Program is obligatory, but not at all boring. Over the past few years, more and more businesses are realizing the advantage of partners—not in the legal sense, but as a relationship of mutual cooperation and responsibility to achieve a...

Posted to Nicole Keith (Weblog) by nkeith on 10-11-2007
Microsoft Marketing-Services?

Microsoft has a lofty goal. Within the next 4 to 10 years they look to have advertising account for 25% of Microsoft's business. Based on recent revenue that would be upwards of $12 billion dollars a year. That represents a couple billion more than Google made in total last year. Think about that...

Posted to Tom Edwards (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-10-2007
Tellicast - Halo 3 Launch Event

Recently I talked about the Halo 3 Pre-Launch Event at the Microsoft campus in Las Colinas. Me, Scott Dockendorf , Karthik Hariharan and Adonis Bitar (disguised as Jason Alexander ) attended the event. It was a great time and our resident film maker Adonis Bitar put together another great Tellicast chronicling...

Posted to Tom Edwards (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-02-2007
Microsoft Dallas - Halo 3 Pre-Launch Event

Last night I was one of the lucky few to attend the Microsoft Dallas Halo 3 Pre-launch event. This was an invite only gathering to preview and play Halo 3 before the launch and to just have a good time fragging people left and right. The event started with the obligatory swag bag with Halo T-shirt and...

Posted to Tom Edwards (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-24-2007

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