Section: Blogs
Nov 3, 2006 1 min.
Last night I jumped on a flight at around 11pm in Seattle and flew to Boston, getting in around 7am, then I drove up to the offices of Mad Doc software… makers of quite a few cool games, including Empire Earth II, Star Trek Armada II and now Star Trek: Legacy for the Xbox 360 (and for the PC). Interview is all done now and I’m on my way back, with a ton of great footage for the on10.
Xbox 360 Wireless Headset video up
Oct 31, 2006 1 min.
As I mentioned before, I had a chance to chat with the PM for the Xbox 360 Wireless Headset and now that interview is up on on10.net. Remember, the headset is releasing just in time for Gears of War (November 7th). Coincidence? I think not!
Oct 31, 2006 1 min.
For all you wanna-be ENG folks, video interviewers, YouTube/Soapbox producers, etc… you need this video. I need this video… we all need this video. Tina Wood, formerly of G4 and a host of our show on http://on10.net, worked with Scott Finley (our cameraman extraordinaire) to produce a how-to video about shooting a standard interview/product demo… and it rocks. It also happens to be entertaining. For bonus points, to prove you watched it all the way through, feel free to discuss Tina’s favorite food in the comment section!
Halloween dashboard update for the Xbox 360
Oct 30, 2006 1 min.
Have you seen this list of features? Absolutely crazy list… my favorites (lots of them are great, but these are ones that either I had already been wishing for or that I know will be a big deal to me): Stream WMV video from a Windows PC running Windows Media Player 11, Zune software, or Windows Media Connect. Play video from storage devices such as USB flash drives, Xbox 360 Memory Units, etc.
Become a Gold Xbox Live member to get your ads quicker
Oct 30, 2006 3 min.
Interesting news, content that is only for Xbox Live Gold members… which even Tycho thinks is understandable, but I agree with his comments about what kind of content is being restricted. they made a serious misstep with the content they chose to inaugurate Silver’s descent into squalor: a trailer for Gears of War. An advertisement. Now, don’t get me wrong. This is really quite a trailer. The term “trailer” may even be insufficient.
Oct 26, 2006 1 min.
If you don’t already know Rory, well… keep watching Channel 9… I’m sure you’ll be hearing more from him through that venue soon. For now, he has joined us over in the ‘dev’ hallway, which I’m sure he finds quite exciting… maybe not as exciting as his Microsoft provided ‘temp housing’, but maybe it is close. “My apartment is very nice, but the complex in which it is situated is a tad on the trashy side.
Wireless Headset for the Xbox 360
Oct 25, 2006 1 min.
Jesse and I headed over to the Xbox buildings and interviewed Deb Louis about the new Xbox 360 Wireless Headset… video coming soon! In the meantime, here are some frame captures for your enjoyment 🙂
Code Monkey by Jonathon Coulton
Oct 22, 2006 1 min.
Ok, if you are a programmer… or even if you just can relate enough that you think Office Space is one of the best movies in the world (doesn’t everyone?) then I need you to do this: Go to http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs Scroll down to “Thing a Week III” Click on the play button next to Code Monkey Enjoy! Jonathan works on the Popular Science podcast, does music for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Books, and used to be a programmer (although I don’t think you ever stop being a programmer, you just decide to do something else with most of your time)
Brian is "Gamer Dad" on Xbox.com
Oct 17, 2006 1 min.
My buddy (and co-author on Xbox 360 For Dummies!) Brian Johnson has started a new column on Xbox.com aimed at parents … parents who game with their kids… parents whose kids play games… and even just parents who play games (gaming is different for folks who have kids in the house!). Check out his entry about it here: Gamer Dad Column
The Deverry Novels by Katharine Kerr
Oct 16, 2006 2 min.
I’ve recently begun re-reading the Deverry novels; I just went through Daggerspell, Darkspell and I’m onto The Bristling Wood (basically ‘Act 1’ as the author has described the books as being the various parts of a long play). This is an excellent series, but one that I found quite by accident. Back when I was a fairly young kid, maybe 12 or 13, a friend of my mother was visting our house and upon realizing that I read the same type of books as him, offered to trade his set of books by David Eddings for my ‘Deryni’ series by Katherine Kurtz.