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Developing a single game for three consoles helps in increasing awareness of the pros and cons of each platforms, and Valve's Gabe Newell of Half Life 2: Orange Box (for the PC, PS3, Xbox 360) is no exception.

Newell has beef against all the three consoles that he worked on for the great-looking Half Life 2 installment, and even his preferred platform, the PC, is not spared. Games for Windows Live is one of his pet peeves towards Microsoft, saying that the software mogul still continues to neglect gaming on PC despite the innovations Vista had presented. "I don't even know what it is," said Newell about Games for Windows Live.

He does acknowledge that Microsoft is still way over its head with its current Red Ring of Death issues, which he supposed is the reason why there is a lack of marketing for the PC at the moment. Nevertheless, he prefers developing games for the PC than any other platform. "It's a great platform. The Internet capabilities are much more mature and the graphics you find on consoles are essentially derivative of the PC and sales on the PC are great."

On the other hand, Newell didn't have a more enjoyable experience with developing a game for the PS3, saying that Sony's console was not developer-friendly. He supposed that Sony didn't get enough developer input before putting out their console in the market, and that certain flaw hampered the PS3's hardware potential despite the powerful Cell Processors.

Despite the flaws of each console, Valve's Half Life 2: Orange Box will be out for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 in October. Stay tuned for more updates!

First it was Microsoft relenting to the demands of the bereaved many and making the necessary adjustments to its policy regarding fixing consoles with the Red Ring of Death. Then it was Robbie Bach selling off US$6.8 million worth of shares at the height of the Red Ring frenzy.

Now, another stunning development - Peter Moore, Corporate Vice President of the Xbox 360/Internet Entertainment business division of Microsoft, has just been confirmed to have resigned from his position, with former Electronic Arts Inc. President Don Mattrick to take his place. This was the shocker that Microsoft itself announced through a press release.

So what made him go? Before we start pointing fingers at a particular crimson ring of light, it's not the reason at all - or so the announcement says. No, Peter Moore's resigning for personal reasons, deciding to move his family back to the Bay Area.

It seems that he's also secured another opportunity in the video games industry - what opportunity, we don't have any info as of yet.

What about Microsoft? Well, they're certainly sad that he's leaving but they don't seem to be that worried that one of their very staunch supporters - namely, the guy who got a Halo tattoo on his arm - left, as they're looking forward to Don Mattrick's experience and management savvy. Robbie Bach and his thoughts on the matter, verbatim:

Peter has contributed enormously to the games business since joining Microsoft in 2003 and we are sad to see him go...While Peter will certainly be missed, we are delighted to have one of the industry's most talented and passionate veterans on board to lead the business.

While we're certainly relieved that Microsoft's already found a replacement for ol' Peter, we also can't help but wonder how the Xbox 360 will fare without him. Time will only tell. Updates as we get them.

(Welcome to the first issue of QJ.NET's weekly feature, QuickJump QuickPeek! This weekly-updated spot will run the top news of the past week, think of it as your own directory of sorts to the week's news breakers in our second home we like to call video gaming industry. This page could contain something as trivial as Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft bigwigs gathering together for an afternoon teaparty or as groundbreaking as that teaparty turning into a free for all, take-out-as-many-gaming-execs-as-you-can brawl. With that, we take you to this week's mover and shakers...)

We weren't treated to news of filthy rich gaming execs going at each others' throats this week, but we did have an equally gory debacle with the Manhunt 2 and Red Ring of Death bad rap. There's also the groundbreaking release of PSP homebrew hero Fanjita's Illuminati exploit (via Lumines UMD) that later on brought us the highly anticipated 3.50 downgrader. Throw in the talks about Nintendo's WiiWare and the PS3 firmware update and we have a really interesting week. Now for the QuickJump quick peek to the week's top stories...

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