Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar Gallaga
| Friday, November 18, 2005, 05:10 PM
I’m reading a book called Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution right now, which takes an interesting approach, in its New York Magazine-style vignettes about shapers of the videogame industry.
One of the later chapters is about the staggeringly expensive and difficult development of Microsoft’s Xbox — the timing is good to read this now, in the days leading up to the Xbox 360 launch. Even if parts of the book feel about three or four years too late, this chapter at least provides a nice framework for understanding one of Microsoft’s biggest current investments.
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