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The MC Hammer Australian Tour Photo Gallery

1:00PM David Wildgoose | MC Hammer spent last week in Australia pimping the arrival – tomorrow! – of Twitter and Facebook on Xbox Live. He did countless media appearances, performed at the Xbox Insider event, and even gave a lecture on social media at the University of Technology, Sydney. More »
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Activision Customer Support, Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto You

9:00AM Owen Good | Bernard, a customer support rep for Activision, proclaimed that if he got more Twitter followers than his colleague, Randolph by Friday, he’d pie Randy in the face. Bernard came up short but carried out the attack anyway. That’s customer service. More »
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Facebook, Twitter, Movies On Demand Hit Aussie Xbox 360s Nov. 17

4:00PM David Wildgoose | Australians will be able to access Facebook and Twitter on their Xbox 360 consoles at the same time as the rest of the world, starting Tuesday. We’ll also see the long-awaited launch of the Movies On Demand channel. More »
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360 Facebook And Twitter Go Live On Tuesday

3:40AM Mike Fahey | Social networking hits the Xbox 360 full-force on Tuesday when the next dashboard update goes live, bringing Facebook, Twitter and Last.FM to the masses. More »
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Bleszinski: Borderlands Is Diablo For A New Generation

11:00AM Owen Good | Continuing today’s theme of “Devs Commenting on Other Devs,” here, for a change, is Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski weighing in with something polite about Borderlands. More »
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360 Facebook, Twitter And Last.FM Will Be Accessible To Teens

4:40AM Mike Fahey | Right now three major features of the new Xbox 360 dashboard update — Facebook, Last.FM and Twitter — are inaccessible to users under 18. Major Nelson says that will change weeks after the update launches. More »
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Bowling: Twitter Helped Build Modern Warfare 2

1:30PM Owen Good | Seems kind of obvious to say in light of recent developments, but in an interview with Develop magazine, the Infinity Ward community manager pointed to Twitter as an instant and constant source of feedback in building Modern Warfare 2. More »
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Fake Gabe Newell — Show Yourself!

11:30AM Owen Good | Some of you might have noticed my “zombiedogs” snafu earlier today. “Gabe Newell” did. Well, the guy masquerading on Twitter as the Valve boss, anyway. That’s when I knew for sure there were no zombiedogs in Left 4 Dead 2. More »
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Do Game Developers Need To Be On Facebook And Twitter?

10:00AM Stephen Totilo | Insomniac Games boss Ted Price recently confessed he’d been ignoring the world of Internet “community” that he’d been proselytizing as the future of gaming. Apology necessary? More »