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Xbox One, Now Improved Without Kinect

So that was sort of quick wasn't it? Just a year ago Microsoft was chewing our collective ears off telling us that Kinect is the future of gaming, that Kinect is a part of the Xbox One and I for one believed them. But besides my gullibility, I thought the Kinect was a feature that Microsoft absolutely needed as a differentiator against the more powerful, more open Playstation 4. But I guess not. Starting June 9th costumers will be able to pick up an Kinect-less Xbox One for $399, putting it on equal footing with the Playstation 4. 

Perhaps Sony's strong sales numbers forced Microsoft's hand. Or maybe Microsoft planned to do this all along (albeit a bit later down the road) but all signs to Microsoft once again proving to the gaming community that their minds can be changed for the better.

So I welcome this new option for gamers. I know for one, my wife did not want an Xbox One until the Kinect was completely removed from the package, and I'm sure there was a ton of other people that feel the same way. I like the Kinect, sure it doesn't do much at the moment but the voice controls are really useful and I can see it getting better as the consoles get more established. 

What do you think of the new Kinect-less Xbox One option? You jumping in now or still waiting? 

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Hearthstone Has Me

I bought The Amazing Spider-Man 2 which is suppose to be mediocre but my fanboyism for the webhead runs deep so I had to get it. I also picked up MLB 14 The Show for the Playstation 4 because that's an insta-buy every year to me. Still, with these two new purchases I haven't been able to pull myself away from Hearthstone on the iPad. It's just so damn addictive.

I'm still trying to unlock all my cards in practice but I'm been having a lot of success with the Paladin with his default card set. I'm just really digging the combat system, and all the strategy involved. I haven't spent any money on it... yet, but yeah I'm fully aware that this is a game I can see myself losing hours upon hours and dollars upon dollars in Hearthstone. 

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Rise From Your Grave

Perhaps a Tumblr resurrection is in order. 

I haven't been on this blog for quite some time now and I really started to miss it. I'll be honest as this is the restart of hopefully a long and trusting relationship. I was using Ready Set Pixel to reach a larger audience for my current project because of the number of followers I had and because of that I haven't wrote anything original here for a while now, and the blog suffered. So I'm here to fix that.

Anyway, with that behind me this is me welcoming you to the new Ready Set Pixel. Which probably won't be as new and different as I'm making it out to be, but screw it, it'll be fun.

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Ready Set Pixel is Back

After a long hard look at what I want to put out on the web, I've decided that the Ready Set Pixel name should return and with it a new idea of what this blog should be. And while there won't be a too radical a change to the content, I feel it's important for myself to make this distinction on how the blog was being run and how I want it to run now. Anyway, I've change the blog's direction more than a few times since I started here so I'll let it speak for itself this time. Hope you enjoy.

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This is a little piece I wrote about the lack of discretion in the video game industry. Much appreciated if you could check it out and reblog.