Microsoft did their part, and fixed the problem with selling scratch-off cards for valuable transactions. They don’t make scratch-off cards now, instead the new cards have fed-ex envelope styled cardboard envelope pull tabs. Which is a huge improvement if you don’t want to lose your money.

On the latest CAG Cast, and in Penny Arcade, there are complaints about the quality of the 360. Especially the headset, and Xbox Live voice communication in general. Granted, these are new things. However, today a patch was released to solve some of those problems with Rainbow Six Vegas…including crash bugs. This is absolutely 100% [...]

Both Guild Wars and all Xbox “card” items (Microsoft Points to buy XBLA games, subscription cards, etc) use this scratch-off method. Guild Wars hides the cdkey with one, and Microsoft hides their long number strings which are essentially cdkeys for a different purpose.
You might have bought Guild Wars, or an Xbox Live 12+ month subscription [...]

A lot of people ask me, like I’m sure they ask you if you’re also working on games, “How did you get into the game industry?”
For me, it was about a few things leading up to where I am today. First of all, I’ve almost always played them starting with the VCS and so on. [...]