Microsoft Bans ‘Ben Dover’
July 3, 2008
If you currently have a variation of ‘Ben Dover’ as your name on Xbox LIVE, you will be required to change it if Microsoft hasn’t already banned your name. It seems to me like Microsoft is getting a little too “PC” and trying to eliminate any kind of creative screen names that may have adult meanings behind them. Recently, Microsoft also decided to ban any screen names with the word “gay” included.
Are they going too far with name restrictions? What do you guys think? I realize that Microsoft is worried about offending people, but perhaps they are going a little too far. How about banning the foul-mouthed punks who continually plague XBL? Screen names are really the least of my worries.
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Haze: The Adult Halo?
May 21, 2008
For a while, Sony fanboys have been coining Haze as the “Adult Halo”, basically inferring that it was the PS3 game that would put Microsoft’s Halo to shame. I’m not sure what people were smoking, but I’d like to get my hands on some of it. Haze is perhaps one of the biggest let downs in the entire PS3 library. [Read more]
