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Posted on October 11th
Fairly mixed response over on MajorNelson.com to this game, mostly either people who love it or people who are wishing we'd stop with the 'retro' games already... I'm a bit on the fence here myself, I […]
Posted on October 10th
Sometimes it is hard to know what you are getting on the marketplace, especially with themes and gamer pics, but in general there is a lot of content and it isn't always easy to find what you are looking for. Well, it seems that will be less of a problem, thanks to the launch of the "Xbox Live Pipel […]
Posted on October 10th
I loved this email from Xbox Live today: […]
Posted on October 4th
TotemBall, the gesture-based game that works with the Xbox Live Vision camera, just shipped to the Xbox Live Marketplace. It is a free download, but you need to have the camera to play. While you are waiting for it to download, check out my video demo of TotemBall up on 10. […]
Posted on October 2nd
Since my initial post on this upcoming game, I found the site www.halowars.com, which has (among other things) some great desktop wallpaper :)
Posted on September 29th
Wow, very cool stuff. Another fun example of how little Microsoft employees know about Microsoft products (I learned about this game from gamespot!) but still, very exciting. Another RTS for the 360 too; I'm playing Battle for Middle Earth now so I'm looking forward to the idea of a second RTS to […]
Posted on September 26th
I went over to 360Style.net today to find that it has been totally redesigned... same great content, much easier to find your way around. While I was there I picked up a new background for my Vista box. The wallpapers that ship with Vista are beautiful, but they can't compare with this... […]
Posted on September 14th
(also available via the Xbox Live marketplace on your 360) […]
Posted on September 13th
With the release of Scramble today, I noticed something odd on the game detail page on Xbox.com. Along the left hand side is a listing of the specs of the game (# of players, does it work with Live, etc.) and it includes this interesting line: "HDTV 480i" Hmm.... while I've never subscri […]
Posted on September 12th
These aren't from an official source, as far as I know, but they look pretty legit to me :) […]
Posted on September 11th
Now that the site appears to be stable, I wanted to mention that my ultra-cool green banner was done for me by Chris from 360Style.net. If you haven't seen his site yet, check it out... my desktop wallpaper is always one of Chris's images
Posted on September 9th
As I've mentioned before, I have a Gamefly subscription and I get new games every few weeks... a great way to play a lot of games without the risk of paying $60 for a stinker (OverG Fighters for example... oh so happy I rented that instead of buying). Anyway, my most recent game is Chromehounds and […]
Posted on August 30th
Check out the first day of PAX 2006, including some footage of the first Penny Arcade Q&A session (learn about the new Wii60 console, coming to a store near you this year), some talk about women, and Tina's dirty dirty camera lens. […]
Posted on August 30th
That is really all that needs to be said, yes?
Posted on August 28th
PAX was a blast, I went back for day 2 and spent almost all the day at the exhibition hall... tons of cool demos and people! I was able to stop at the Xbox booth and chat with Trixie (as Brian mentions here), which was great because she is one of those people that I've emailed quite a bit but ne […]
Posted on August 26th
So I've been wanting to go to PAX since it started a couple of years ago, and every time it has come around I've been out of town... until now... and, by some interesting twist of fate, I know have a job that actually required me to attend :) So Tina, Sampy, Adam and I headed over there today, snuck […]
Posted on August 25th
Sampy and I stopped by the main doors of PAX last night around 1am and there was already two groups of folks waiting. Some guys from Detroit were first in line, having come in by train earlier that day, and they covered the full range of video gaming interests (although no one in their group was int […]
Posted on August 24th
I'll be hanging around outside a bit tonight, to check on any folks who are that excited to be there already, and I'll be around after 2pm tomorrow... a lot of Saturday... some of Sunday... in general, I'll be there :) […]
Posted on August 14th
I've been stoked for some time by the completely black case replacement for the 360, but now I've found out that I can potentially switch my controllers (even the wireless ones) to custom colors as well... very very sweet. […]
Posted on August 3rd
Met with Dave Mitchell from the Xbox team today to talk about Microsoft Gamefest. If you are going, drop me a line... I'll be there with a camera along with one or two other folks from on10.net. […]
Posted on August 2nd
I was surprised early to hear that God of War II was a PS2 game... and now this? I think it just the price that is scaring developers... scary to develop for a console that seems out of the price range of your target audience. I say "seems" because despite my own (biased) negative thoughts about the […]
Posted on July 27th
Yesterday, Laura and I headed over to the offices of Penny Arcade to interview them about... well, about a variety of things, it was a very interesting interview. […]
Posted on July 26th
Ok, so I have to admit something... when I saw Assassin's Creed in the various E3 videos, I was sad. The game looked amazing, but I'm not going to buy a PS3 ... you can see my dilemma. […]
Posted on July 21st
I saw this on Techie Diva today... and it was immediately appealing, but the attraction dimished quickly. This isn't any fault of the software, as far as I know it does its job perfectly, but I just don't think this is the way to deal with this problem. I have given parental control over technology […]
Posted on July 12th
Very cool news from Major Nelson and a variety of other sources... […]
Posted on June 30th
Sometimes I don't like being just the guy behind the scenes :) […]
Posted on June 21st
I'm certain I can't enter, being a MSFT employee and all, but you can! […]
Posted on June 20th
Brian and I were interviewed by Mike from Xbox365.com and the full transcript is up online now... […]
Posted on June 19th
If you look through the pics, you may spot me with Laura Foy in this gallery.
Posted on June 10th
I've recently taken a little break from playing Oblivion, which had been the only disc in my 360 for the past couple of months, and I decided to try a range of games. While working on our book, Xbox 360 for Dummies, I added every single 360 game to my Q on Gamefly.com, so I end up getting a random s […]
Posted on May 16th
Check out yesterday's video on10, a tour of the Microsoft booth area at E3 2006!
Posted on April 18th
The source behind several of our questions for the recent Major Nelson bit on 10 is revealed, thanks Xbox Elle! A fun little game show, How well do you know your box(or is it Xbox? I can't tell), was posted to on10.net on Friday. Laura and Tina try to stump Major Nelson with a bunch of trivia ques […]
Posted on April 14th
I've remarked to a few people that writing a more 'consumer' focused book […]
Posted on April 5th
Seems you can actually buy them now, maybe I should send him a book?
Posted on April 1st
That Elder Scrolls Oblivion guide book I mentioned in an early blog post today, I just saw that it was #20 on Amazon today. That's just crazy!! […]
Posted on April 1st
You can get 3 chapters from xbox.com (as PDF), a guide to the Fighter's Guild quests, character classes and some misc. stuff.... great content for no $$ or effort :)
Posted on April 1st
So, another blog post in my series about how much I'm enjoying Oblivion... I really want to buy Blazing Angels, but it seems pointless to get it right now... I know I won't play it. At this point, I probably haven't play anywhere nearly as much as a more dedicated (some one with no children, and […]
Posted on March 22nd
I picked up my copy of Elder Scrolls last night, turning down the massive 'guide' (shouldn't I be figuring out the quests by myself?), and after putting the kids to bed I fired it up. Hard to make those initial race/class decisions as always but I went with a Dark Elf Archer, under the sign of the […]
Posted on March 20th
Check out http://www.360style.net/, I've set my desktop to the Blazing Angels desktop and I think I'll come back every few days to grab a different image!
Posted on March 14th
My dad has recently retired from the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), but I'm sure his opinion of a game like Need for Speed: Most Wanted wouldn't be any better just because he isn't going to work anymore. In this game, if you haven't played it already, you are a street racer... so you race on […]
Posted on February 25th
He also talks about using a picture, (off of your computer, a CD, a digital camera, or even a USB drive) as a custom background... a very cool feature. […]
Posted on February 22nd
80 now I think, after a quick bit of Ridge Racer.... but an overall low score. I'm told that I need to just play more games, but we'll see how I do with my current set of PDZ, PGR3,DOA4 and Ridge Racer. Ridge Racer is a really different racing experience than PGR3, where I've been spendin […]
Posted on February 18th
It may not be everywhere, especially outside of the US, but it seems to be on its way....
Posted on February 9th
From Brian's blog (via his wife)
Posted on February 9th
I noticed the Xbox PR blog was using glop.org's gamercards, so I took their url and made one of my own....
Posted on February 6th
I was in a local Barnes and Noble, the one in downtown Bellevue (WA), and I spotted our book on the shelves. It wasn't at the Woodinville B&N as of yesterday, but at least it is showing up in some stores! […]
Posted on January 29th
Ok, you'll be glad to hear that I won't be whining any more about not having an Xbox 360. My pre-order from EB Games still hasn't come in, but a friend of mine knew someone who had waited in line to get a 360 on launch day and then had their pre-order come in... so they were willing to sell me their […]
Posted on January 25th
Looking for tips for your new Xbox 360? Check out the over 300 comments to Major Nelson's post, not all of them are useful, but there are lots of great bits of information in there. […]
Posted on January 23rd
Our new book, Xbox 360 for Dummies, has hit the stores... or so we've heard. So far, Brian and I haven't seen it in any actual retail stores, just online. If you see it in a store near you, or better yet... if you buy it in a store near you... let me know! […]
Posted on January 13th
I just heard that our book, XBox 360 4 Dummies, has left the printer.... hopefully it will end up on bookshelves near you soon
Posted on January 12th
More reason to feel bad about not having a Xbox 360 yet... my brother bought me DOA4 for Christmas, for the 360, and it just arrived yesterday. I haven't opened it yet, but I put it up on top of the TV and pretended I was playing it, using the most powerful gaming console of them all... my imaginati […]
Posted on January 9th
My book is about to come out (don't worry, I had a 360 to use while writing the book... so my lack of one now does not reduce the accuracy of the book :) ), and I work at a place with probably one of the world's highest concentration of Xbox 360 fans .... and I don't have one yet. I pre-ordered from […]
Posted on November 21st
Swung by Best Buy in Bellevue today, line stretched out from the store all the way around the parking lot and over to the near by Home Depot... tents, heating lamps, chairs... even hot food being brought in. The guy in the front of the line, who I believe will get his Xbox 360 from Bill Gates, had […]
Posted on November 5th
Brian and I have been spending a lot of our free time working on an upcoming Xbox 360 book (Xbox 360 for Dummies), which has resulted in me spending way too much time thinking about the day I will be able to pick up a box of my own to bring home. Looking forward to that day, and knowing that Brian a […]
Posted on October 28th
Check it out at http://blogs.duncanmackenzie.net/duncanma, and go make your own at http://www.xbox.com
Posted on October 25th
For the last few weeks I've had a graphic and link to a 'free Xbox 360' site up as a banner on my blog pages, and it has received a lot of clicks (and 12 or so sign-ups, although no one has completed an offer yet...). I'm guessing […]
Posted on October 11th
I've been putting money aside for a few months now, to save up for an Xbox 360, and now I have sold my media center extender (the HP one), I've hit the magical number to be able to afford the 'premium' edition. I can't afford any of the crazy bundles that are available for pre-order though, so I g […]
Posted on October 4th
As a big fan of KOTOR and Baldur's Gate before that... this is very exciting.
Posted on August 21st
RAS in to work, fire up VS and get some bugs fixed.... or play Halo 2?
Posted on April 27th
http://www.gamestay.com/ is a blog/site with info on all those topics, so you might want to check it out!
Posted on February 21st
I saw a newsgroup post (by Todd Bowra) that an update was available for my XBox media center extender, but I can't find anything about this on any of the media center sites on http://www.microsoft.com or xbox.com, so I thought I would spread the […]
Posted on December 5th
He was talking about the generic bad guys in the new Prince of Persia game, but this line crosses into Halo, and it is so true... […]
Posted on November 22nd
I like that Bungie is exposing your stats as RSS (see mine here), but it would be cooler if they had added some additional elements and attributes to the feed to describe the games in a more usable format, rather than just in HTML... instead of;
<item>
<title& […]
Posted on October 9th
I've been playing through x-men legends for the XBox, which has been a lot of fun... kinda like Gauntlet but with the X-Men ... it isn't as much fun right now though, because I went and got stuck :) […]
Posted on September 30th
Yesterday I started up my first Fable game, 3 hours of my life lost already. Lots of fun though. […]
Posted on September 15th
I've recently signed up for NetFlix, but earlier I had tried out GameFly, a service I like to think of as "NetFlix for Games"... and I remembered that I had planned to describe my experience on my blog at some point, but I had never gotten around to it!
Basically Gamefly is the same deal as NetFl […]