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• Keys to a great Xbox 360 Game

  Microsoft has made some great improvements to the Interface on the Xbox 360. I had written an outline of what I thought made a great Xbox game back in 2004 when Xbox Live had been out about a year and a half. A few of the items on that list have been Read More... Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:30 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming

• An end may be near.

  Video games just don't hold the same appeal this days compared to a couple years ago. I still play my Xbox everyday but some days I only play a few minutes to keep my streak going on 360voice. Rock Band has been the only recent game to hold my interest Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:16 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming

• Xbox Warranty Return December

  I've made a lot of trips to my local UPS store this month. Most of them dealt with the normal shipping and receiving of Christmas gifts. But I've made five trips for warranty replacements of Xbox related items. I've picked up my empty box for the racing Read More... Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 9:14 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming

• Xbox 360: Three red lights flash on the Right of Light: Round 2

  It's happened again. My Xbox 360 froze up when I was playing Assassin's Creed. Then when I rebooted the 360 it started playing the opening animation but never made it all the way though. It did this a couple times then I let it rest for about a half hour Read More... Posted Sunday, December 9, 2007 3:23 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming

• Vision for GamerScoreGoal.com

  I set a goal for 2007 of getting a total of 20,000 Gamerscore on my Xbox 360. The last couple months I have become obsessed with reaching my goal and I needed a good way to track my progress. I was also coveting the API Samurai badge on 360voice.com , Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:51 AM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Xbox, Gaming, GamerScoreGoal

• I had a bad feeling.

  An update to the 360voice main blog back on Oct 24th had a comment that they were working on a new feature. I had a sinking feeling that it would be related to what I was doing at Gamerscoregoal.com . 360Voice.com has announced their new Challenge system Read More... Posted Friday, November 9, 2007 4:30 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Xbox, Gaming, GamerScoreGoal

• Obsession

  Hello. My gamertag is Carsinigin and I'm obsessed with video games. I just bought Shadow Run at full price. I swore to myself that I would wait until it was reduced or I could get it though GameFly . As I got back into my car, in the Best Buy parking Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:08 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming

• Xbox 360: Three red lights flash on the Ring of Light

  I got the dreaded red ring of death tonight well I was in the dashboard voice chatting. WTF???? I wasn't even stressing the Xbox's cpu with a game. The hard drive was not under strain of I/O. There was no DVD disk in the drive to spin. After one year Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:01 PM by Carsinigin | 1 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming

• XBList - XBox Live Friends List Manager

  I've been using xboxfriends.com for a long while to track who's playing what on Xbox Live. A Digg Artical's comments lead me to XBList. It doesn't have the external notification system but the interface is a lot better and it looks like it's been updated Read More... Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 1:55 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Xbox, Gaming

• Buy Headset Adapter (XBox 360) In Stock

  Must Buy Link to Buy Headset Adapter (XBox 360) In Stock Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 6, 2007 4:08 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming, Note to Self

• XNA Links

  6 Best Free Game tools: http://crenna.typepad.com/chew/2007/01/the_best_six_fr.html HLSL Tutorials: http://www.riemers.net/eng/Tutorials/XNA/Csharp/series3.php 3D Modeler: Blender MSDN XNA Forums Read More... Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 4:19 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Gaming, Note to Self, XNA

• Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows

  Well I guess I wasn't paying attention to the announcements about this. Microsoft is releasing a USB adaptor that you can plug into your XP or Vista PC and then connect your Wireless 360 accessories. The best news about this is the prices is only $20. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 5, 2006 3:57 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming, XNA

• I've been playing too much Splinter Cell

  I almost look like Sam Fisher. Published with BlogMailr Read More... Posted Thursday, November 9, 2006 9:18 AM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming

• What happened to Happy Tuesday?

  A Happy Tuesday is any Tuesday that a new video game hits the store shelves. For years they (whoever they happened to be) have trained us video gamers that new games come out on Tuesday, and for the most part games would be on the shelf sometime late Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 8, 2006 1:39 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Xbox, Gaming

• Fan Site Kits

  Some links to Fan Site Kits that may be useful for my clans web site: Battlefield2:AF Battlefield2 PDZ WOW Mechassult 2 RavenSheild Ghost Recon WebKit 1 and WebKit 2 Gears of War Splitter Cell Animated GIFs [Attempting to post for the 2nd time] Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:31 PM by Carsinigin | 0 Comments Filed under: Gaming, Note to Self