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Recently, someone pointed me to this video on YouTube and it got me thinking about my gaming history...   In my early years, I was never a big arcade game player. My parents just didn't believe it was a worthwhile way to spend my time. (Sadly, we had neither an Atari nor an Intellivision, so I didn't get to play those cool Activision ...

As I recently mentioned, my XBOX 360 died almost immediately after finishing the single player campaign of Halo 3. I think it was mainly the DVD drive, but either way, nothing I did worked. I tried multiple game discs, movies, unplugged it completely, laid it on it's side, left it off for hours, and all to no avail. So, what's the good news ...

Similar to my *super recent* post about the three words every Halo 3 online purchaser was dying to see, I just saw the *two words* no XBOX 360 owner wants to read (Unplayable Disc), and then proceeded to blurt out the *one word* I shouldn't use at home. At first, I thought it may have to do with the scuffed and scratched Halo 3 LE disc. But ...

There are few words more touching than these. Sure, there are some other phrases that are up there, but when waiting for Halo 3 to arrive on your doorstep (and contributing to the biggest day in US entertainment history) ''Out for Delivery'' is the only thing I wanted to hear. Now that I've finished the single-player campaign (yes, ...

Not sure if I've mentioned it previously on my blog, but I bought Guitar Hero II about a month ago for the XBOX 360...and it *rocks*! It's been a lot of fun (and i've even managed to let the boys play quite a bit). We are all good at Surrender, since it's the first song. But the reason for the post is that tonight, just now in fact, I passed the ...

Since I hadn't been feeling too well this afternoon/evening, I decided to take a bit of a break tonight and try out the Halo 3 Beta. Unfortunately my first worst fears were realized...I got slaughtered. Of the four games I played, I did manage to *not be last* one time...hooray! With an average lifespan of about thirty seconds, it's easy to see ...

UPDATED: The deadline for submissions has been extended to May 28, 2007  After what seemed like forever, today I got back from lunch to find a box with my free author copies of Professional Community Server. I had been waiting for a while since I wanted to use one of the copies as a prize for a mini-contest I am hoping to run off this ...

Speaking of leaderboards...no, I'm not talking about our updated profile pages again, I'm talking about something even more important...my Friends list on XBOX LIVE. For a while, I've managed to stay atop my personal leaderboard, but I fear that my reign is near the end. You see, Tom Edwards (gamertag: tomncherlyn), our Director of Sales ...

This past weekend I took some time to play on the Xbox 360. I downloaded the latest Live Arcade release, Heavy Weapon, and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this new title. After so many of the coin-op ''classics'', I was wondering if we'd ever get a ''new'' game that was fun. Heavy Weapon does not disappoint. Not only is the ...

Just some random notes: Jason gets back to blogging...regularly Wyatt talks about Chameleon, but in the context of his ''five things'' post with references to a game called ''Big Booty'' I've finally switched to FeedBurner and have started tracking site stats based on Thomas' post More news out about Guitar Hero 2 for the 360 I rented ...