Allard's biking injury won't affect Xbox 360 launch News
Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
As some of you may have heard, Microsoft executive and Xbox 360 point-man J Allard had a nasty fall last week while mountain biking. Poor chap took a tumble and broke his left arm's radius and scaphoid, and cracked a couple of ribs too.
Well, the good news, according to vocal Xbox team blogger Major Nelson, is that it won't affect the launch of the console. Which isn't hugely surprising, but you never can tell what the frothing faithful will believe given half a chance.
According to Nelson, who also has some pictures Allard took of his injuries using a camera-phone, it was a pretty nasty fall, but he seems to be okay. Indeed, Allard's biggest complaint is apparently that it's very hard to type his emails out with one hand - so much so that he's looking for a good predictive text driver for his PC.
It may not affect the launch of the console, then, but it's going to cause him trouble if he wants to go online and show people who's in charge when Xbox 360 launches in late November. We wish him a speedy recovery.
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PES_Fanboy
16/08/05 @ 09:28
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In other news, a wasp just flew into the EG offices.
Kristan swatted it with a rolled-up copy of The Sun though. This isn't thought to affect the release date of the XBOX 360 or PS3. |
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tonynibbles
16/08/05 @ 10:11
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Reminds me of:
"Look hunny, I'm hang-gliding, weeeeeeee! SHIT! I'm dead" What a fucking idiot" "Mum, can we get some fucking MEATLOAF!"
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Jontacular
16/08/05 @ 11:12
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A spin and a tweak too far, methinks. And then he goosed it.
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foreverafternothing
16/08/05 @ 12:51
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nice to see people using this as an excuse to put down Microsoft and J Allard. don't forget that this articles comes from a blog and it was EG's decision to make it 'newsworthy' on here. i like Allard, but in all honesty while i sympathise with him i don't think it was particularily worth making a story out of this. frankly, who cares?
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effinwooly
16/08/05 @ 14:15
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What has this guy done to receive such hatered from so many people ? (sony Fanboys please calm down !)
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In another news. A package boy running past Sony building went for a pee. According to Sony, it doesn't affect the launching of PS3
Sorry for ripping, PES_Fanboy. Just thought that one, had to get it out. I don't see anyone putting down MS for this. Just basic joking about someone getting hurt, and EG making a news out of it. |
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What has this guy done to receive such hatered from so many people?
Hate is a strong word. But the guy had some ridiculous 'queer-eye' make-over, and then started talking like an MTV VJ from the 90's, and went from chubby comb-over nerd to teenager within a few weeks. I don't think he's even the same guy when I study the photos. And have you not seen the 'You are our colony' 360 PR video? Did you miss the E3 presentation where Allard, Moore, and some other twunt were just shy of a full-on Charlies Angels pose when they got on the stage? And then Allard lays on the floor demonstrating the front-end because he's too cool to stand, and all this gets whoops and cheers from the oh-so-obvious rent-a-crowd that are no less fake than Allards own image. I love what the guy's done with Xbox, but every word he says is written by some yoof-style PR department. |
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captain-future
16/08/05 @ 17:19
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Hahaha, ok that was uncalled for. Hope he gets well soon.
BTW: I like that "Play.com" logo on the left column much better than the other shop before. |
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