Friday 1 June 2007

Sensible World Of Soccer on the Xbox 360 Arcade

Received confirmation today that I'll be going to the SWOS community day in July to get a full day hands on preview of Sensible World of Soccer on the Xbox 360 Arcade.


Cant say when/where it is as it's top secret but I'll report on the day afterwards.


Guitar Hero 3


IGN has a preview of Guitar Hero 3 - they mention some new gameplay modes such as Battle Mode which sees you battle against boss characters. The guitar will also be wireless.

They don't mention much about the online play just that it will be present. Good stuff!


Full Article on IGN


Thursday 31 May 2007

American Dad


My American Dad Season 1 DVD's arrived today from Amazon. Absolutely brilliant. Watched the Pilot episode tonight and it was excellent. I've only seen random episodes before.
American Dad link on Wikipedia




Another weird gadget...



Some Hong Kong based company is selling these pill shaped usb flash drives. What will they think of next??

Wednesday 30 May 2007

16 ways to drive traffic to your blog

Was doing some research during my lunch hour today on increasing traffic to your blog and came across this site which featured an article about driving traffic to your blog.

It's worth a read. Some of the points are obvious but others to me were well worth knowing.

Microsoft unveil 'Surface'

Microsoft have been working on this top secret gadget for a number of years now and finally unveiled Microsoft Surface yesterday.

It's looks like a coffee table styled computer that uses the table top to display a high-resolution desktop image. The technical term for this sort of stuff is 'surface computing'.

Whilst it looks really clever I'm not sure if it'll catch on long-term. Who knows.


Some more info and impressive videos HERE

Official website HERE

Tuesday 29 May 2007

Mad Tracks hits Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow (30th)

After a long wait Mad Tracks is at last coming to the Live Arcade tomorrow (30th May). Looks pretty good.

Some info here and here, and discussion on the official xbox magazine forum here.
Some screenshots:


Monday 28 May 2007

badboyhouse.co.uk downtime

Unfortunately the web forwarding service at my host 123-reg has been down for most of the day which has resulted in www.badboyhouse.co.uk getting a page cannot be displayed error.

www.badboyhouse.blogspot.com (where my domain forwards to) remains unaffected.

Sorry for any inconvenience if you tried to view the site whilst it was down.

If anyone's got any ideas as an alternative to web forwarding let me know. I'm all ears.

At the minute I dont pay for hosting with 123-reg - I just have the domain registered with them and web forwarding enable to point to my blog.

Colin McRae Dirt and Dead Rising

Whilst the graphics in Dirt are some of the best I've seen on the 360 it doesnt work at all well with the Microsoft wireless steering wheel - which is a real shame. With a regular 360 controller it's fine. They might issue a patch to make it better but it's not for me at the minute.

Roll on Forza 2!

I also picked up Dead Rising at the weekend. Excellent game and very very gory/gruesome. If you like the chainsaw kills in Gears Of War you'll love Dead Rising. It's a tough game especially with the way that you save your progress but well worth picking up.