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Using my Xbox Live data service?

Posted on April 4th, 2008

If you've written an app, private or public, using my data feed of Xbox live info I'd really appreciate it if you'd let me know. This isn't a required 'sign-up', but I want to start to keep track so that I could possibly create a page listing all the sites using it, and it may also be useful to be a […]

New Xbox Friends Gadget released and a Silverlight Gamercard Generator

Posted on April 3rd, 2008

Adam Kinney, Silverlight dude and my colleague at work, has released an updated version of his Xbox Friends Watch gadget and a new standalone gamercard gadget for your website that uses Silverlight 2.0. […]

Xbox.com Personalities answer a bunch of holiday questions

Posted on December 14th

Trixie 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). […]

More Xbox Dad articles, Viva Piñata Party Animals and Xbox Live

Posted on November 21st

I'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 Part […]

New Xbox Dad column: My take on the Bee Movie Game

Posted on October 28th

If you or your kids are all excited about the upcoming Bee Movie with Jerry Seinfeld, then you should definitely check out my latest article on Xbox.com. Along with the movie, an Xbox 360 game is also on its way.... and a demo is already up on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Not the most representative d […]

Silverlight based Sidebar Gadget showing your Xbox Friends

Posted on October 25th

Awesome gadget from Adam Kinney, great information and a nice slick UI done in Silverlight. […]

Custom Armor Configurations in Halo 3

Posted on October 24th

In 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 […]

Xbox 360 Arcade System announced

Posted on October 23rd

For the price of $280, you can now get a new edition of the Xbox 360 console. This one is similar to the original core system, but with HDMI output, a 256mb memory card (so you can play and save your games right out of the box), a wireless controller, and five full arcade games. Perfect if you […]

Xbox Dad article on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is up

Posted on August 14th

I was a bit surprised to find that I enjoyed this game, although I enjoyed the last few books in the series and the latest movie, I really figured the game would only appeal to kids. The pace is slower than most adult/teen games, but that makes it into more of an exploration instead of just quickly […]

Ratatouille preview article up on Xbox.com

Posted on June 25th

My latest kid-focused game article, which happens to be yet another movie tie-in, is about the upcoming Pixar film Ratatouille. Cool game, very nice looking... and it has entire missions around making recipes by spilling ingredients... just like how I cook at home! […]

Hey, I'm on Channel 10 ... just in time for Father's Day

Posted on June 17th

I sat down to chat with Tina from Channel 10 to chat about my Xbox Dad articles, gaming with your kids, etc... […]

Keeping in Touch, a new Xbox Dad article is live

Posted on June 14th

It 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 […]

Yet another Xbox Dad article up, this one on games for the K-6 crowd

Posted on June 5th

Family Gaming with the K-6 Crowd […]

If you are wondering where I get my Xbox Live info...

Posted on June 2nd

A few people have emailed me or posted comments wondering how I grab the Xbox Info for the Twitter app and for my services. It is not from scraping and it is not from any publicly available source. I joined the Xbox Community Developer Program (XCDP), which is an official program designed to support […]

Xbox Dad of the Year contest on Xbox.com

Posted on May 29th

Hey kids... if you have a gaming dad, then get going on those essays... and Dads, if you are reading this... you might want to just start hinting and sending this link to your kids! […]

Using the Xbox to Twitter app? Please update your client....

Posted on May 27th

Ok, ok.... so I should have built-in an auto-update, ClickOnce would have been easy enough.... but anyway.... I've added many features to the Xbox to Twitter application, including support for only updating when the title being played changes, not showing popups and even a preview of what your twitt […]

Put up a REST API for Xbox Gamertag Data

Posted on May 27th

My 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: […]

I'm inappropriately excited about something I just found on the web

Posted on May 24th

Bungie.net showing Halo 3 stats along with Halo 2

Posted on May 11th

My profile page... not sure if you can find out, but I've lost the last 3 games of Halo 3...

Connect your Xbox 360 Gamertag to Twitter

Posted on May 11th

UPDATE: I've updated this application since the original version, addressing most of the 'known issues' listed below […]

Halo 2 on Vista interview up on 10

Posted on May 9th

Halo 2 on Vista: We've got the new maps, features and achievements […]

Xbox Dad's Mother's Day column up...

Posted on May 8th

Nothing very exciting for you gamers out there, but you know... 'tis the season.

Next Xbox Dad column (TMNT coverage) is up

Posted on April 26th

My 2nd column is up on Xbox.com, covering the recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game. […]

Renting vs. Buying

Posted on April 24th

I own a lot of Xbox and Xbox 360 games... some good, some bad... but the hit/miss ratio is much better for all my 360 games, mostly because of game renting. Starting around the time the 360 launched, I signed up for Gamefly and I've alternated between the two and three game plans. It is […]

My first "Xbox Dad" column (post?) is up...

Posted on April 6th

<random musing>It seems like an online article, but I wonder if it wouldn't be just easier for them to publish these articles as blog entries?</random musing> […]

Feeling nostalgic for my Intellivision for some reason today...

Posted on April 2nd

I think it was playing Chargeball in Meet the Robinsons, but for whatever reason I started thinking about this […]

Jetpac Refueled hits Xbox Live Arcade

Posted on March 23rd

On Wednesday, a new Xbox Live Arcade game from Rare will be hitting the Marketplace... Jetpac Refueled. I have to say, from the moment we started shipping retro games onto the Xbox 360, this is what I've been […]

Capturing 360 video with AV input to a DV camera

Posted on March 7th

I captured some footage of Viva Piñata to test the quality of capturing the analog video out from the 360 into a miniDV camera... worked out pretty good I think. […]

Zune Background Pack 2 up on 360 Style.net

Posted on March 5th

Including backgrounds from Gears, Alien Hominid, Bullet Witch and more... grab them now! […]

30 more hours of Oblivion coming... wow...

Posted on January 19th

I'm far from having used up all the gameplay in the initial release of Oblivion, and I haven't even gotten into the expansions, and now they've annouced an additional expansion with a ton more gameplay that I can jump into on the 360... amazing. […]

Assault Heroes for Xbox Live Arcade

Posted on December 11th

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty […]

Laura Foy does a 360-inspired cover of Justin Timberlake's hit...

Posted on December 1st

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Two new wallpapers up on 360Style.net

Posted on November 30th

Both are my style... but I had to go with the Star Trek Legacy one for now... […]

Email interview with the Superman Returns team up on 10

Posted on November 30th

Normally I do video for 10, but in this case I had a bunch of questions and I decided to see if the team behind Superman Returns would be up for answering them via email. They were, and the whole conversation is up as a post on http://on10.net […]

Video Marketplace Up on Xbox Live

Posted on November 22nd

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Oblivion content, the Knights of the Nine, released to Xbox Live

Posted on November 22nd

From Major Nelson: […]

Laura Foy with Pizza and a line up of PS3 fans... hmm...

Posted on November 19th

Probably not the best plan in the world, but we sent Laura out with Pizza and a Premium Xbox 360 to try and win the hearts and minds of a line up of PS3 buyers at Target... watch the video on 10 (download only right now)... and maybe we'll do the same for the Wii? […]

First part of my Star Trek Legacy interview is up...

Posted on November 17th

I flew to Boston a couple of weeks ago and interviewed some folks at Mad Doc Software, and the first part of that interview is now up on 10. […]

Zune Crazy on 10

Posted on November 16th

So you may have already seen the videos, but now we've been going a bit crazy and you find an on10.net background for your Zune along with a link to 12 great 360-themed backgrounds... and I went and made my own which you can grab from here   […]

A PS3 Poem from a Neowin commenter

Posted on November 8th

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Xbox 360 Wireless Headset video up

Posted on October 31st

As I mentioned before, I had a chance to chat with the PM for the Xbox 360 Wireless Headset and now that interview is up on on10.net. Remember, the headset is releasing just in time for Gears of War (November 7th). Coincidence? I think not! […]

Halloween dashboard update for the Xbox 360

Posted on October 30th

Have you seen this list of features? […]

Become a Gold Xbox Live member to get your ads quicker

Posted on October 30th

Interesting news, content that is only for Xbox Live Gold members... which even Tycho thinks is understandable, but I agree with his comments about what kind of content is being restricted. they made a serious misstep with the content they chose to inaugurate Silver's descent into squalor: a traile […]

Wireless Headset for the Xbox 360

Posted on October 25th

Jesse and I headed over to the Xbox buildings and interviewed Deb Louis about the new Xbox 360 Wireless Headset... video coming soon! In the meantime, here are some frame captures for your enjoyment :)   […]