Monday Morning Other Stuff (2-25-08)

[Steve_OS]

• Phil Harrison resigns from Sony
• Harrison to leave Sony - join Atari?
• MS drops HD-DVD player - statement
• Video Clip: David Blaine Part 4 (Hilarious!)
• Nintendo to Begin Charging for Some Wi-Fi Games
• Take-Two willing to negotiate with EA after GTA IV release
• GDC08: hands-on with Street Fighter IV
• Man dies in cake-eating contest
• Image: Dead Squirrel (Funny, in a strange cruel way...)
• Open Letter To The Guy Who Stole My 11 Year-Old Piece-Of-Junk Car
• Game Time: Lineage II (Tough/addicting game, can you beat it?)
• Boyfriend on roof punches weaving driver

As the regulars of this news post/thread can see, we now have the ability to post in any Forum we wish to and keep it on the home page. So I figure, what better place to put this post, than right here in the OS Neighborhood. For those unfamiliar with this daily post, it's just something I came up with a long time ago, to generate discussion and get to know our readers. I'll post various interesting links, "What's Up?" w/ me, Question of the Day (commonly referred to as QOTD) and birthdays (make sure you update your profile, if you want it listed).

We launched the redesign on Saturday with great success. Although we had a few hiccups and had to add more processor power to both servers, it seems like the new redesign is getting high remarks. A lot has gone into this, through ideas from the staff (old and current) and plenty of long nights. I'd like to take this time to personally thank all of them and all of our readers for making this site what it is today.

Hope to see some new readers joining in on the discussion, we have quite a few regulars that post in this daily thread, so make sure you join in on the conversations!

What's up with you?

• QOTD: What is your favorite feature of the new Operation Sports?

Happy Birthday to the following OS'ers!

Saber (25), Hack22 (24), GuiltyGoaT487 (21), Tomasperez9 (17)

[TJdaSportsGuy]

QOTD:

My personal favorite new thing is that we have a podcast because A) I'm on it, and B) You can listen to it right from the front page by clicking the "Open in New Window" button which launches the media player. Then, you can listen to it as you browse all the other new stuff OS has to offer!

[aukevin]

QOTD: I really like the podcast too, but being able to cast our own votes towards a game rating is very nice.

[Steelerfan2k1]

I like the reader scores and hype scores. This is going to be really useful when I am looking at an old game and thinking about picking it up.

[boomhauertjs]

Interesting weekend. We were at our neighborhood Irish pub and former Presidential candidate (and my Congressman) Dennis Kucinich was there. There was a fundraiser or campaign meeting going on. We didn't have our camera or otherwise we would've gotten our picture with him.
Didn't do a whole lot else on the weekend. Went bowling Saturday night and to an Academy Awards party last night. Updated my NBA 2k8 rosters with all of the new trades (especially the Cavs).
So far so good with the new Cavs. Overall, I think this will make them a better team because it makes them deeper and more consistent. You never knew what you would get from Gooden and Hughes.

QOTD: The weekly preview and the Podcast are probably my two favorite so far.

[MassNole]

QOTD:
I like the way the podcast is linked as well.

What's Up:
2 more days and probably 100 panic attacks between now and Wednesday..

[Steelerfan2k1]

I like the reader scores and hype scores. This is going to be really useful when I am looking at an old game and thinking about picking it up.

[stalsy2310]

QOTD: The podcast, when do new ones come out?