Archive for 'Gaming' Category
XBox 360 DRM Policies - Love it or Leave it
23 January 2008As I’m sure anyone with an XBox 360 knows, Microsoft had some stability issues with XBox LIVE over the Christmas Holidays and continued to have issues well into January. Even Major Nelson posted a message from Marc Whitten, General Manager of XBox LIVE discussing and apologizing for the issue.
During this period, users were unable to [...]
2D WndrPong! using the Microsoft XNA Game Studio v2.0!
28 December 2007I decided to take some time this weekend to sit down and learn what I could about the latest release of Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio. I started out with a book I purchased called Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creators Guide, which turned out to be a terrible book. Most of the examples in this book [...]
How to fix your Guitar Hero Controller Whammy Bar
8 November 2007Has your Guitar Hero 2 Controller Whammy Bar gone limp on you? No worries! Fixing a broken Guitar Hero controller Whammy Bar is really, super simple. It'll only take five minutes and will save you the $49 it would cost to purchase a new one.
Tools Required: Small Phillips Head Screw Driver
Time Required: 5 Minutes
IQ [...]
World in Conflict is really cool.. if it didn’t crash all the god damned time!!!
16 October 2007I recently purchased World in Conflict hoping that it would live up to the 9.3 rating that IGN gave it in the review. I recently had to go back and re-read the review hoping there was some nugget of information in there that would perhaps shed some light on how to run this game for [...]
The Death of PC Gaming and Why I returned BioShock to BestBuy.
27 August 2007One of the most hyped games to come out recently is BioShock. It's being treated as the Doom3 of 2007 as it brings with it the Unreal Engine 3.0 and was touted as having amazing water effects. I, like many other gamers, was very excited and saw this as the first next generation game we [...]