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On Monday, 2k Sports will be shipping what may be the best alternative to EA Sports' Madden franchise.

Two very interesting announcements were made this week at the new-and-improved E3. Microsoft announced that its Games for Windows Live technology is being included in the Unreal 3 Game Engine. Sony announced a partnership with Epic where the Unreal 3 Game Engine will be optimized for the Playstation 3. What does this mean? The wikipedia has an excellent explanation of what a game engine is.

Two very interesting announcements were made this week at the new-and-improved E3. Microsoft announced that its Games for Windows Live technology is being included in the Unreal 3 Game Engine. Sony announced a partnership with Epic where the Unreal 3 Game Engine will be optimized for the Playstation 3. What does this mean? The wikipedia has an excellent explanation of what a game engine is.

I ask the question because while everyone is looking at Sony's competition to understand why it is "struggling" in the next gen console race, I think Sony can look in the mirror to find their answer.

Microsoft took a lot of heat for quietly discontinuing its support of the original Xbox. They seemed to think that supporting two consoles was not beneficial to their business, even though the black box had a lot of life left in it. Looking at the success of the 360 since that decision it is easier to say that they were right.

I ask the question because while everyone is looking at Sony's competition to understand why it is "struggling" in the next gen console race, I think Sony can look in the mirror to find their answer.

Microsoft took a lot of heat for quietly discontinuing its support of the original Xbox. They seemed to think that supporting two consoles was not beneficial to their business, even though the black box had a lot of life left in it. Looking at the success of the 360 since that decision it is easier to say that they were right.

N'Gai Croal, gaming journalist for Newsweek, makes an awful good case that Microsoft should pony up and recall Xbox 360s currently in the field.

N'Gai Croal, gaming journalist for Newsweek, makes an awful good case that Microsoft should pony up and recall Xbox 360s currently in the field.