GAMESPOT : Feed Review

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GAMESPOT Feed Review Product Definition
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Requirements

• MoMac will produce on behalf of CNet an ad-funded
  editorial site for their brand Gamespot
• This document is intended to dissect the Gamespot
  feed and provide some idea as to how it will be
  transformed within MoMacs framework
• It is also intended to give interested parties an
  idea of final product definition and design.
• For GameSpot well be using news (text, no
  image), reviews (summary, score, text, images,
  cheats), previews (text and images) this
  requirement was set in discussions between CNet
  and MoMac

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Feed details

• Example feed URL
• http//feeds.gamespot.com/feeds/halo3.xml
• Given the feed you gave me - http//feeds.gamespot
  .com/feeds/halo3.xml - news articles seem to be
  console specific rather than game specific (as
  dicatated by the tag. Am I correct in
  this assumption?
• All the news articles in that sample feed are
  indeed associated with the game Halo 3.
• The width of screenshot of the game is extremely
  small 100 pixels wide. We recommend that
  article images are 640 pixels wide. Is this the
  widest image you can supply us? Not that this is
  a great issue, but most handsets have screens
  wider than 100 pixels, so this means that the
  screenshot will look extremely small
• We can provide larger screenshots. Not a problem.
• OVERALL FEED QUESTIONS
• How often is the feed updated?
• We can be flexible on how often the feed is
  updated. We can update the feed at any frequency
  desired that's makes sense for the content.
• How may times a day / week / month should we grab
  the feed?
• I think instead of saying how frequently we can
  update the feed it  might be helpful to know how
  the information is intended to be used.  Then we
  can adjust the feed(s) accordingly. For example,
  cheats/hints might be appropriate to update once
  a day or once a week. However, if you're planning
  on using news then we may want to do that as
  a separate feed that's updated every fifteen
  minutes. Knowing how things will be used on the
  front-end can help us plan here. We can be
  flexible.
• Are articles every updated?
• Yes. Definitely. Any article we publish can be
  updated after it has gone live. It's actually
  quite important to us for partners to reflect 
  updates of our content. The recent Kane and Lynch
  debacle highlighted  the importance of this.

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SITE MAP
Latest Reviews
Choose platform Ds .. Xbox 360
Choose game Halo 3 .. The Simpsons
All Reviews
Read Review
Latest Previews
Choose game Halo 3 .. The Simpsons
Choose platform Ds .. Xbox 360
Read Preview
All Previews
Latest News
Choose news title First Item 1 Last item
Choose platform Ds .. Xbox 360
Read News
All News
Latest Unlockables
Choose platform Ds .. Xbox 360
Choose game Halo 3 .. The Simpsons
All Unlockables
Read unlockable cheat
Latest Codes
Choose platform Ds .. Xbox 360
Choose game Halo 3 .. The Simpsons
All Codes
Read code cheat
Latest Secrets
Choose platform Ds .. Xbox 360
Choose game Halo 3 .. The Simpsons
Read secret cheat
All Secrets
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Wireframe homepage sub-level navigation
Please select your category of interest Latest
News CES '08 Gates' swan song reveals 10M XBL
members  MS 17.7 million 360s sold  More
News Latest Previews Halo 3 Heroic DLC
Hands-On  Halo 3 Exclusive QA - The
Construct Multiplayer Level More
Previews Latest Reveiws Halo 3 Review 
The Simpsons Review More Reviews Latest
Cheats Unlockables Halo 3 The Simpsons
More Unlockables Codes Halo 3 The
Simpsons More codes Secrets Halo 3 The
Simpsons More secrets
Please select your platform of interest CES
'08 Gates' swan song reveals 10M XBL members 
MS 17.7 million 360s sold  More PC
news CES '08 Gates' swan song reveals 10M
XBL members  MS 17.7 million 360s sold 
More xbox 360 news Wii related headlines
Wii related headlines More wii new ps3
related headlines ps3 related headlines
More ps3 news ps2 related headlines ps2
related headlines More ps2 news psp
related headlines psp related headlines
More psp news ds related headlines ds
related headlines More ds news

• When a user selects More News, More
  Previews, More Reviews, More Unlockables,
  More Codes, More Secrets, the next thing they
  will be asked to do is to select their platform
  of choice through a summary screen of that
  category of interest.
• Once they select their console of choice, they
  will be redirected to
• NEWS slide 8
• REVIEWS slide 9
• PREVIEWS slide 10
• UNLOCKABLES, CODES, SECRET slide 11, 12, 13

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Wireframe news index article page
CES '08 Gates' swan song reveals 10M XBL
members LAS VEGAS--As has been the case for
years, the Consumer Electronics Show kicked off
Sunday with a keynote address from Bill Gates.
For over two decades, he has loomed large over
the consumer electronics industry, thanks to the
dominance of his company's PC operating
software--and, by default, PC games. More Previous Next article Get the latest news on the xbox 360! CES '08
Gates' swan song reveals 10M XBL members MS
17.7 million 360s sold NPD Canada passes C1B
in game sales Spot On System Wars 2008  
NPD November cooks up 2.63 billion in game
sales More news

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Wireframe reviews index article page
Halo 3 Microsoft Game Studios Bungie Software
Get the xbox 360 game you would like to read a
review on Halo 3 FIFA 08 Call Of Duty
4 Guitar Hero 3 Assassins Creed More
reviews

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OVERALL Halo 3 builds upon the concepts of Halo 2
in ways that you'd expect, but there are also new
modes and options that send the series in
exciting new directions. GAMESPOT
SCORE 9.5 REVIEW Regardless of how you felt
about its cliffhanger ending, there's no denying
that Halo 2 was a gigantic success that raised
the bar for what we, as a game-playing society,
expect out of a good console-based first-person
shooter. In the years that followed, MORE PREVIOUS Next review

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Wireframe previews index article page
Halo 3 Heroic DLC Hands-On 
Want a preview of an up and coming game? Please
select a article of a title of interest to you
from the articles below Halo 3 Heroic DLC
Hands-On  Game example 2 Game exaple 3
Game example 4  More previews prevews

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• NOTE because we cannot dynamically create
  categories, we need to have a console specific
  preview section e.g. xbox 360 previews, and
  then attach preview articles to this category
  as there could be a lot of preview articles
  associated to each game, we will simply display
  the most recent preview article associated to a
  games

If you thought that with the release of Halo 3
Microsoft and Bungie were done separating you
from your money this year, you're in for a bit of
a surprise on December 11. That's when both
companies will release the Heroic downloadable
content pack for Halo 3, a collection of three
new maps that will cost 800 Microsoft points on
Xbox Live Marketplace, or about 10. These new
maps aim to flesh out Halo 3's highly popular
multiplayer gameplay even further, offering an
intense new large-scale battlefield, a deeply
modifiable small-scale arena, and a beautiful new
outdoor map reminiscent of the popular level
Blood Gulch. All three levels are a blast, too,
as we had a chance recently to travel up to
Bungie's offices and try them out ourselves.
MORE Next preview preview

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Wireframe code cheats index article page
Halo 3 Cheat Codes 

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Duty 4 Guitar Hero 3 Assassins Creed
More articles
The following cheats can be performed during a
local match or replay only. You must
simultaneously PRESS HOLD the following buttons
for 3 SECONDS to toggle the effect on / off.
KEYS LB Left Bumper RB Right Bumper LS
Click in on Left Analog Stick RS Click in on
Right Alalog Stick
CHEAT LB RB LS A DOWN D-PAD EFFECT
Toggle Hide Weapon 
CHEAT LB RB LS A UP D-PAD EFFECT
Toggle Show Coordinates / Camera Mode
MORE

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Wireframe unlockable cheats index article page
Halo 3 Unlockables 

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Creed More articles
Achievements Complete each achievement to get
the allotted gamerscore. ACTION Board the same
vehicle within 10 seconds after being boarded in
any free for all playlist (Online). 
EFFECT Maybe Next Time Buddy (5) ACTION Earn
the MVP in any ranked playlist (Online). EFFECT MV
P (5) 
Armor Permutations Unlockables Body Pieces
Spartan marked with (S) and Elite marked with
(E).  ACTION Collect 13 hidden skulls 
EFFECT (S) Hayabusa Helmet  MORE PREVIOUS  

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Halo 3 Secrets 

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Catch Skull Effect all enemies have 2 grenades,
throw more grenades Level The Storm Location
From the start, go through until you go outside
again. When you go outside look straight across
there is a small round building straight out
there, the skull is on top. In order to get up
there you can either use a warthog as a platform
or grenade-jump. DO NOT destroy the wraith near
the door or the skull will disappear.
Grunt Birthday Party skull Effect Headshots on
grunts cause heads to explode with confetti.
Where to find Crow's Nest How to find Right
after the first objective, while en route to the
barracks, you will fall down onto a pipe. At the
end of this pipe, look over the edge to see a
small space a few feet below you. You must simply
drop over and as quicly as you can, pull back to
land under the floor you were just on. After
that, the skull will be at the end. MORE PREVIOUS  

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