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Xbox.com Personalities answer a bunch of holiday questions
Thursday, December 13, 2007Trixie had all of us Xbox.com column writing folks answer a bunch of holiday themed questions recently, and I noticed tonight that the answers are all up on the site! Check out some interesting Q&A with Trixie, Major Nelson and others (including me, Xbox Dad). Xbox.com Personalities at the Holidays We asked the Xbox.com personalities to share some information on their holiday favorites. What did we learn? Egg nog, "A Christmas Story," and Dean Martin pwn. Plus Major Nelson is a Grinch. [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
More Xbox Dad articles, Viva Piñata Party Animals and Xbox Live
Wednesday, November 21, 2007I've obviously been busy, I never even posted a link to these articles here... I've written two new Xbox Dad article in the past few weeks, one all about Xbox Live (to coincide with the Xbox Live is Five event going on) and one that I wrote this week about Viva Piñata Party Animals. Viva Piñata Party is a great game, the 'party' nature of it means that it is quick to get started, even for non-gamers, and the quick little matches means that you can pick it up and play even if you only have a little bit of [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Silverlight based Sidebar Gadget showing your Xbox Friends
Thursday, October 25, 2007Awesome gadget from Adam Kinney, great information and a nice slick UI done in Silverlight. Xbox Friends Watch - Get the Gadget! [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Custom Armor Configurations in Halo 3
Wednesday, October 24, 2007In Halo 3 multi-player you can customize your SPARTAN or Elite's armor, with different variations unlocked by various achievements/activities in game (including one that can only be unlocked by being a Bungie employee). You can find out more about the different variations here, but it turns out that your profile on Bungie.net knows what choices you've made and displays your current armor configuration on the web site. If you go to the Halo 3 Model Generator though, created by a community member, you can find the picture of any particular gamer you'd like (including yourself, which is how I found [read more...]Filed under | 2 comments »Share this -
Hey, I'm on Channel 10 ... just in time for Father's Day
Saturday, June 16, 2007I sat down to chat with Tina from Channel 10 to chat about my Xbox Dad articles, gaming with your kids, etc... [read more...]Share this -
Keeping in Touch, a new Xbox Dad article is live
Thursday, June 14, 2007It has been 'marketized' a bit from how I originally wrote it (with the addition of a product name right into the title for one), but a 'father's day' article from me is up on Xbox.com Keep in Touch with Xbox LIVE Vision Published June 13, 2007 It's an interesting time of year for Dads. High school graduation is just around the corner and college graduation has probably already happened. For some of you, this means that your son or daughter is moving out of the house, and there are going to be some changes in your relationship. As Father's [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Yet another Xbox Dad article up, this one on games for the K-6 crowd
Tuesday, June 05, 2007Family Gaming with the K-6 Crowd With Father's Day coming up, I've been thinking a lot about my own Dad and how I got into videogames as a kid. My parents, perhaps swayed by George Plimpton's television commercials, went out and bought an Intellivision for the family. It was to be a Christmas gift for all of us, not just for me and my brother. It was hooked up to the only TV in the house, right in the living room where we spent our evenings. Night after night, the four of us played games like Poker, Dungeons and Dragons, [read more...]Filed under | 0 comments »Share this -
Put up a REST API for Xbox Gamertag Data
Saturday, May 26, 2007My twitter app uses a web service hosted on my site to get all the necessary Xbox Live info.... way more than the twitter app actually uses. This is a SOAP API, located here: http://duncanmackenzie.net/services/XboxInfo.asmx I know that some people prefer a more RESTful API though, so I also have another 'page' that you can call with a straight GET request and just pass the gamertag in as a query string parameter: http://duncanmackenzie.net/services/GetXboxInfo.aspx?GamerTag=Festive+Turkey Enjoy! [read more...]Filed under | 31 comments »Share this -
I'm inappropriately excited about something I just found on the web
Wednesday, May 23, 2007Filed under | 3 comments »Share this -
Bungie.net showing Halo 3 stats along with Halo 2
Friday, May 11, 2007My profile page... not sure if you can find out, but I've lost the last 3 games of Halo 3... [read more...]Share this
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