Constant vigilance, that’s what it takes to keep up on all the latest things coming to Xbox, Netflix and the myriad of services that you have in your home. Each month with Ask The en, I take your questions on gaming and media the media that you enjoy when you need a break from gaming. Xbox Game Pass is on tap for this month. So is a look at films I consider to be classics.
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Speaking from personal experience, now is an awkward time to be an African American. In my lifetime, race shed its 1,000-pound gorilla suit. It’s a slow stalking predator these days, an always-present, but seldom talked about reality. For reasons related to white houses and riots, it’s back at the forefront and ripe for exploration in culture. Take Get Out for instance.
Remember the shivering cold days of late November? Every once in a while, we’d stop to think about all the games that’d just made their début. We'd sit in our arm chairs, finishing another Xbox One game on our bucket lists and luxuriating in all the free time we were going to have to enjoy them over the holidays? Jokes on you folks. It’s February and Spring 2017 games are just around the corner. It’s time to kick this bad boy into high gear.
Stacks On Stacks: Mass Effect Andromeda, Switch Launch Games & What I Won’t Be Playing
I don’t just spend a lot of time interacting with technology. I spend a ridiculous amount of time reading about it too. Since the tender age of 17, I’ve read one guy at least once a day, Thurrott’s Paul Thurrott. If you asked me why I still read him day after day, I wouldn’t be able to tell. I think it’s just out of habit at this point because it surely isn’t about the content. Take his shot at the Xbox Insider Program from earlier today.
Quick Words: Of Xbox Insider Program, Early Updates and Thurrott
I didn't realize it when it started, but Monday would be the first day of a four-day tech high for me. Maybe you don't know what a tech high is, but you've probably experienced one. It happens when all the stars align just right. You're researching something cool that you were only mildly interested in. Then, as if you're returning to a police station to claim a bag of money that no one else did, you get excited. Your heart flutters. You realize that the piece of tech you're looking at could change everything. Last Monday I purchased the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier.
I’ve Come from the Future: 3 Days with the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier
“why would anyone buy books from Microsoft when they can already get them in better places?” As this was coming from the same guy that has a 30 item collection strong movie selection in Microsoft Movies & TV, plus an extensive Xbox One games library with no disc, he was a bit taken aback.
I’ve Changed My Mind, I Might Be in on this Microsoft Books Thing
Once a month for the last few years I’ve turned Microsoft Rewards points into credit to purchase digital goods from the Windows Store. Music, movies and television shows, I’ve used those points to fund it all. In fact, I’ve now got an impressive movie collection that includes the entire Harry Potter, Avengers and 007 movies that feature Daniel Craig. I rarely get the opportunity to finance video game DLC with the Microsoft Points that I save. It’s gotten too expensive.
In the last five years downloadable content has become an uncontrollable kraken. What once was a quick and straight forward way to get some added value out of a game you’ve already purchased has been twisted and morphed into something gamers of five years ago wouldn’t recognize after stepping out of a time machine.
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Hello from Richmond, again
Did I mean to not post something here in roughly 10 months? Nah. WordPress went bonkers. Hello from Richmond, again.
This month's Ask The en, I take your questions on PlayStation VR and Nintendo Switch. Also confirm for the first time that Captain America is a lunatic.
Ask The en: Staying Away from Oculus & PS VR, Betting on Nintendo Switch
I have to admit that I had a very hard time resisting the urge to start this month’s Ask The en with a quote from Albus Dumbledore’s end of term speech in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. First, I’m a geek. Second, it feels like only yesterday I was sitting down to pen the first 2016 edition of the column. It also seems odd that already we’re talking about holiday Xbox One price cuts, the last few game releases of the year and other random musings. Yet here we find ourselves.
Ask The en: Steep, Xbox One Price Cuts & Leaving Groove Music Pass