Archive for August 12th, 2008

My Red Ring of DeathGreat article about where old Xbox Live-enabled games go to die. Bret and I experienced this playing NHL ‘07. While we weren’t looking for other opponents, the lobbies were almost always vacant sans us.

The other piece the other article doesn’t mention is the evolution of the lobbies, and matchmaking of these games. NHL ‘07 was so clunky, slow and painful to utilize over some of the newer games process for setting up opponents and online matches.

Xbox 360’s Dead Online Games