Xbox Game Pass might miss the mark with some gamers

You might have heard that Microsoft announced Xbox game Pass. A service which, for $9.99 a month, will allow “unlimited access to over 100 Xbox One and backward compatible Xbox 360 games.”

Although this sounds great, there is a lot of confusion surrounding the promotion. For instance: will access to this catalog require an Xbox Live Gold subscription? Continue reading “Xbox Game Pass might miss the mark with some gamers”

NuAngel is of voting age! 18 years, one moniker…



A few years ago, I logged in to an old “Hotmail.com” account. There was a section where you could find the date the account was created. I had registered NuAngel@Hotmail.com on February 8th, 1999. I know I had used the name for a few weeks prior to that, but on services like ICQ, where a name could change whenever you wanted it too – your unique ID was a long number – your nickname was just a preference in your profile.


Hotmail was the first place I remember registering the name, thinking, “I like this name, I think I’m going to keep it.”


Five years ago, I made a post about how I have used the same name online for 13 years. Two years ago, I wrote about what the name meant to me. And today, marking 18 years of using the same online handle, I’m still happy to be known the world over – perhaps in small pockets, but it’s a very surreal feeling to have people “recognize you” by a “fake name” you use on the internet.


I have no legal claim to the name, I have no trademarks, and I’ve said before I’m very aware that there is a pre-existing “NuAngel, Inc.” out there in the world. But I don’t think I’m stepping on anyone’s toes – I travel in very different circles from the other company, and I’ve done my best to be an upstanding citizen of the internet (remember when “netizens” was a word people used?). At the end of the day, I just can’t see myself adopting any other name any time soon. Call me a geek if you want, I’ll own it!