Plane of NonConformity

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 and a month my 360 gave up on me.

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 in the recent past.  It's also programmed in the .Net framework and scraps ...

Must Buy  Link to Buy Headset Adapter (XBox 360) In Stock

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.  I'm surprised the XNA community hasn't been posting more about this.  ...

I almost look like Sam Fisher. Published with BlogMailr

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 Tuesday morning or afternoon (depending on when the UPS truck delivered to the store).  On ...

A link from Penny Arcade pointed me to the website for Amon Tobin, who has created the soundtrack for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. One of the songs is an MP3 the rest are in real format. That reminds me to fix my Real Alternative. So I can hear the rest.

Source: http://www.xboxaddict.com/news/view.php?News_ID=4640

The reality of adult life with a significant other and a video game addition is that you are limited in time and space.  Most games will have their computer setup and a separate setup for their console and TV.  When I lived on my own that was my reality.  A living room setup with 5.1 surround sound, 32'' Sony Trinitron TV, and a bad ...

I found my old stomping grounds from back when I first started out on Xbox Live. It used to be call PlanetMotoGP but I've guess they have changed thier name and website (No wonder I could never find it) http://www.xblracing.com/ I'm going to have to dig around there to see if I can find some of my old Xbox Live friends.