Your Wii and Xbox 360 controllers can do more than just play games, they can be used for other useful things like controlling your PC!
Besides that, check out some of the other links that contain 57 useful tips from PCs, Tivo, iPod, and others at PCWorld.
Not since your last fishing game in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda did you have a hankering to spend hours on end trying to catch that big fish.
Thanks to Griffin International who has developed the fishing game called “The Strike” for the Xbox 360, you will be able to just that!
The game will feature realistic lake bottoms, ai fish behavior that mimics real fish, customizable characters, and your choice of lures to use.
The game is sponsored by the Bass Pro Shops.
The game will cost $69.99 and includes the rod pictured above and will be available for the Xbox 360, Wii, and the PC sometime later this year.
Just read a post about a Xbox 360 user who turned his Xbox 360 into an arcade stick after he got the RRoD on his Xbox.
The joystick looks pretty damn good. Take a look at the picture at slipperybrick.
Microsoft is again extending their warranty program for the Xbox 360 due to the E74 errors that are being reported by the consumers.
Like the Red Ring of Death errors warranty program, this is another issue that Microsoft will deal with and offer refunds to previous Microsoft Xbox 360 players who have had to pay for repairs due to the E74 error.
For more info check out examiner.
The Discovery Channel knows that the Deadliest Catch is going to be the Xbox 360 platform, that and all of Microsoft’s other marketing channels.
Discovery Communications has spent an undisclosed amount for the right to advertise across the web, mobile, and video game business of Microsoft and is reported to be 90% of the ad space that was sold.
For more info, check out the Reuters article.
Is the PS3 games better than the Xbox 360 games? It is not the latest hottest games that are exclusive to the game console that we are talking about but the quality of the game made for them.
Ben Dutka talks about the quality of the software programming that is put into the development of a game. He talks about his personal experiences with game software freezing up on him on his Xbox 360 system whereas he has not had any issues with any games that he has played on the PS3 console.
And coming to think about it, I have not had any issues with my PS3 system as well…
For more on Ben’s post, check out PSXExtreme.
I posted yesterday on the report that the PS3 was the most used console during prime time and that was a report off of the GamePro site, however in a report by the TeamXbox site, it’s reported that the Xbox 360 actually surpasses the PS3 and the Wii in console usage.
To read the actual report by The Nielsen Company that we are all reporting off of, check out the Nielsen Report.
In the latest research report by The Nielsen Company, their quarterly “State of the Video Gamer” report shows more people are playing with their PS3 and Xbox 360 during primetime television hours!
The report also mentions that more women age 25 and up are taking up game play as well and the demographic shows it’s 46.2 percent of the PC gamers and for metered gameplay minutes it amounts to 54.6 percent!
The most played game? Microsoft is king with their Solitaire and FreeCell.
For more info, check out The Nielsen Company.
It’s not about getting smack or any lip service regarding some new songs available for the Xbox 360 but it’s all about what new fun songs you can play along with Microsoft’s wireless microphones called “Lips.”
Reported yesterday, April 3, in London; Microsoft announced Activision’s Guitar Hero Metallica and MTV’s Rock Band 2 are the first music titles to support the Lips wireless microphone that features motion sensors and lights that respond to the singer’s actions.
You can expect more songs to be added to Microsoft Xbox Live and from the “Get Music” store.
Music titles to be released that supports the Lips microphone.
Available April 3:
Wish You Were Here – Incubus
Sugar, We’re Goin Down – Fall Out Boy
Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Available April 10:
Ne-Yo Song Pack – Closer, So Sick, and Hate That I Love You by Rihanna feat. Ne-Yo
Coldplay Song Pack – Speed Of Sound, The Scientist, and In My Place
Looking Out My Back Door – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Closer – Ne-Yo
So Sick – Ne-Yo
Available April 17:
Creedence Clearwater Revival Song Pack - Looking Out My Back Door, Bad Moon Rising and Who’ll Stop the Rain
Kryptonite – 3 Doors Down
All My Life – K-Ci & Jo Jo
Sing – Travis
Available April 27:
Love Today – Mika
Ocean Avenue – Yellowcard
Linger – The Cranberries
You can also find more info from http://www.xbox.com/community.
I just read a wonderful story of friendship across the country between Xbox 360 users.
In a blog post posted on the SeattlePi (Which is no longer a newspaper company) 8bitjoystick posted a wonderful story of friendship and how using Twitter and meeting another fellow Xbox User, SaikoSaukra, helped him receive a free hard drive for his second Xbox 360 system.
Check the link above for the story.
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