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I just uploaded a few photos of the Pac Man World Championship venue. All of the contestants were in tonight to meet each other and practice to get ready for the big event tomorrow. John from the GSB will be posting his later tonight. Tomorrow we’ll be shooting a lot of videos for Xbox.com and covering all of the action.

Finally, the community team talked tonight and we’re going to do a very casual meet up tomorrow evening in the lobby of the Marriott Marquis (where we’re staying.) John, Sara, TriXie and I will be hanging out in the Atrium lounge after 5:30pm Tuesday night (immediately after the Pac Man event.) I talked John into buying those who are of age the first round. There appears to be a automatons convention of some sort in the hotel so there is a sea of blue suits.  I am sure it will be pretty obvious which ones are the Xbox team. Hint: I can confidently say no one on the Xbox team will be wearing a blue suit at this event.

See you tomorrow!

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I am currently headed to New York for the Pac Man World Championship. Tonight we meet all of the finalists who will be busy practicing for tomorrow’s show down. I’ll be meeting up with John and Sarah from the Gamerscoreblog, as well as TriXie from Xbox.com who will be covering the event as well. Regarding the Community meeting, I’ll talk to the team today and we’ll finalize a place for the tomorrow’s Xbox community. It will be in Times Square, since we will all be just coming from the finals. I’ll make a post once we decide on when and where it will be. And no, I won’t be painted Silver.

Posted traveling through New London, CT aboard Acela 2159 at about 110 MPH

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Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (UU’s)
1 Gears of War
2 Crackdown
3 Halo 3 Beta
4 DiRT Demo
5 Tom Clancy"s Rainbow Six Vegas
6 Guitar Hero II
7 Forza Motorsport 2
8 Call Of Duty 3
9 Aegis Wing
10 GRAW 2

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions)
1 Rush"n Attack
2 Double Dragon
3 XEVIOUS
4 UNO
5 Soltrio Solitaire
6 TMNT 1989 Arcade
7 3D Ultra™ Minigolf Adventures
8 Pinball FX
9 Worms
10 Castlevania: SOTN
 
Original Xbox Top Live Games
1 Halo 2
2 Battlefield 2: MC
3 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
4 Counter-Strike
5 Forza Motorsport
6 Madden NFL 07
7 Call of Duty 3
8 Splinter Cell Chaos
9 Ghost Recon 2
10 FIFA 07

These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade, full versions purchased this week. If the Xbox 360 list and the original Xbox list were combined, then Gears of War continues to be the top Xbox Live title. The arcade list is based on full versions purchased.

Posted from Terminal 1, O’Hare International Airport

Video Marketplace activity based on sales: 

Top 10 Weekly Movie
1 Flags of Our Fathers (HD)
2 Blood Diamond (HD)
3 Happy Feet (HD)
4 Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
5 Employee of the Month (HD)
6 Open Water 2 (HD)
7 The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (Unrated)
8 Jackass Number Two
9 The Departed (HD)
10 Poison Ivy 2

Top 10 Weekly TV Titles
1 South Park (HD)
2 Game Head
3 Comedy Central Stand Up
4 The Animatrix
5 Taboo
6 Enterprise (HD)
7 Robot Chicken
8 CRISS ANGEL MINDFREAK
9 Fights (HD)
10 Babylon 5

Posted from Terminal 1, O’Hare International Airport

I am headed back to the East Coast this weekend to spend some time with the family before heding to New York City for next weeks ‘Pac Man World Championship event. We’ll have a full community team in town for the event: John from the Gamerscoreblog and Xbox.com’s TriXie will join me to provide complete multimedia coverage on Xbox.com of the competition and the finals, plus I’ll snag some audio for my next show.

Maybe we may grab Pac Man to kick out some New York style videos. Got any ideas?

Also:

• No show Sunday since I’ll be on the road.
• All of the Pac Man event tickets I gave away on my last show are gone, and the winners have been notified with details.
• e’s Matrix Box set finally arrived.
• John from the Gamerscore blog and I were talking yesterday, and we’re thinking of doing a community meet-n-greet after the event on Tuesday (6/6) evening, somewhere in or near Times Sqaure. Would the folks in the city be interested in a casual after work get together to meet other LIVE members? I’ll see if I can get John to slap down his Amex and pick up some of the food/drink bill. I’ll post details about this if we get enough interest.

Finally, a word of warning: If you’re in the city this weekend, TriXie is in town for the World Cybergames US Open.

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