Microsoft recently completed it’s Summer Promotion of Arcade Wednesday. For five weeks this Summer they released a new Xbox Live Arcade game on Wednesdays. The promotion was a smash hit on Xbox Live Arcade. I happened to download four of the five and thought I would give my impressions of them. Frogger This was the […]
Xbox Live Arcade and My PC
July 26, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Tonight has not quite gone the way I had planned. First, I planned to get in a quick couple rounds of America’s Army with my 158th clan mates. Then, I was going to play some Xbox 360 – in particular some of the new Xbox Live Arcade titles that are available. However, when I got […]
New Xbox 360 Arrives
July 24, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Finally, the new (refurbished) Xbox 360 has arrived. It actually didnt take all that long to arrive, but Sean and I were really hoping to have it last week for our time alone at home while the girls were at the Showstoppers National Dance Finals. If you remember, mine died a couple weeks back and […]
Ping Pong
July 19, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Suzanne and Savannah left for the Showstoppers dance finals today, so it was just Sean and I. We had been looking forward to a bit of father / son time especially some extended gaming sessions on the Xbox 360. Unfortunately, the replacement unit hasnt arrived yet, so we are out of luck. We must have […]
Xbox 360 Texas Hold Em Dated
July 14, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Finally, a release date has been announced for the Xbox 360 game Texas Hold Em Poker. The game will be available on Aug 23rd via Xbox Live in the Arcade games. Originally, the game was supposed to be available in April and then in May. I think this date will be pretty close as I […]
Xbox 360 Sent Off
July 13, 2006 by 2 Comments
If you remember, my Xbox 360 died last week perhaps caused by a lightning strike, but not sure. Anyways, yesterday the return box from Microsoft was received. We made the UPS guy wait around while we loaded the broken unit into the box and sealed it up. The UPS guy then took it with him. […]
Expensive Day at the Store
July 8, 2006 by Leave a Comment
I need to remember to never go shopping when I am tired. After ending the family reunion by getting everyone to the airport, we headed off to Sierra Vista to get a few things. The intention was for Sean to trade in some old Xbox games and get the new Lord of the Rings: Battle […]
Xbox 360 Dead
July 7, 2006 by 4 Comments
Not a good good day for gamers here yesterday as the Xbox 360 failed. I stayed up lat on Wednesday night playing and everything was fine when I headed off to bed. When we powered up the Xbox 360 system on Thursday morning it froze in a checkerboard pattern after playing for a few minutes. […]
New Features on Website
July 1, 2006 by Leave a Comment
I have a couple of new features to the website and I think I would give a quick run down of what they were: I have added a new Pages sidebar item with links to some pages of interest outside the wordpress date hierarchy. I recently started using tags on my posts – you may […]
Your Xbox Has It’s Own Blog
June 29, 2006 by Leave a Comment
I am a little late to this game, but I recently signed up for Xbox Voice 360 site. The premise of the site is that your Xbox 360 has a voice and does its own daily blog of you activities. It “posts” in blog fashion on the games you have been playing and the progress […]
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