Archive for April, 2007

  • Curb Stomping your Persistent Elite – Or last week on Live.

    Curb Stomping your Persistent Elite – Or last week on Live.

    From Kotaku: Last week’s Xbox Live numbers are in, and Gears and Rainbow Six have nabbed the top spots.  I can only imagine that this is in part, because these are the only two games I own. (I jest, I also own Table Tennis, Saint’s...

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  • There is more to life than just video games….

    There is more to life than just video games….

    There mere thought of uttering that phrase brings vivid images of Khidr  and dragonwyntir reenacting the beat down scene from full metal jacket (replacing the bars of soap in a sock with Xbox Controllers).  “All just a bad dream, Fatboy” indeed.   But I digress.

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  • On the Wrong Side of the War

    On the Wrong Side of the War

    The release of bioshock theme and pictures on marketplace, has highlighted an issue that has been boiling over recently.  It seems Xbox Live users in general have been ripe pissed about the pricing and sale of certain recent content, including song packs for Guitar Hero...

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  • XBLA – Eets: The Demo and Pinball FX

    XBLA – Eets: The Demo and Pinball FX

    So on the heels of our resident xbla junky, I figured I’d do some thunder stealing to talk about some XBLA of my own.  Namely, the recently released demos for Eets Chowdown, and Pinball FX. These two games are very very different experiences, and by...

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  • Confessions of an XBLA junkie

    Confessions of an XBLA junkie

    After months of Image whoring for this little weblog of happy, I thought it was about time I sat down and wrote something. Unfortunately up until recently I had a jumbled idea as to exactly what TO write. Then it hit me, Or rather smacked...

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  • Xbox 360 Premium – 60.00 = one sweet deal

    Xbox 360 Premium – 60.00 = one sweet deal

    So here’s some unabashed free advertising for Office Depot, but they earned it…   get a 360 Premium for $339.99 with the coupon code listed below: http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?id=432220 15% off Coupon code: 95938435 Exp 4/21 = $339.99 shipped free That’s all I’ve got.  Definitely information I would’ve...

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  • A personal note

    A personal note

     So, a couple of months ago, dragonwyntir and myself parted ways as roommates to jump headlong into the world of grownup-dom.  As part of the divvying up of our “marital” property from our happy home, dragonwyntir took with him one, slightly used xbox 360, leaving...

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  • Credit where credit is due!

    Credit where credit is due!

    God of War 2 is "teh r0x0rs".  Plain and simple.  Write it down. Being the whore for production values that I typically am known to be, I’m always a sucker for a game that goes to great lengths to infuse "love" into the art form of...

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  • 2007 Spring Dashboard Update Leak?

    2007 Spring Dashboard Update Leak?

    NOW we’re talkin’…instead of all these crazy speculations and rabidly fierce suggestions, it looks like someone snagged a video of the upcoming feature set.  Among the new features are: - New blade in the dashboard for the Marketplace- Friends list now integrated with Windows Messenger...

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  • More Spring Dashboard Update News!

    More Spring Dashboard Update News!

    I’m a sucker for free additional functionality in my console.  I was over DLB’s house a few times in the past few weeks, and the 1.6 update for the PS3 added some great stuff.  There have been a couple of scraps in recent weeks regarding the 360′s...

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