The Infinity Ward plot thickens...

  I hope to be gaming again by the weekend. The night the blizzard started, the DVD drive on my primary Xbox 360 finally bit the dust, so it's been demoted to a Netflix streaming device. Reibo surprised me by buying me a replacement Xbox Arcade. He said I looked so tired and depressed from the hassles of the Blizzard of 2010 that he cut me a break by buying me a replacement. I really appreciated it since I wasn't looking forward to uncabling the Elite I use at my workstation. It's a snarl of cables down there, and it would have meant moving my workstation out of the way to get everything unhooked...
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• Slashdot: BBC to cut internet services.