Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Shan
Mariokart Wii is a blast as a game. Three complaints about the online experience:
1. Friend codes suck. It’s a pain to use, hard to track down your own friends, and then after all is said and done, your friend code only applies to a single game title, so your Mariokart code won’t work with Smash [...]
Posted on January 7th, 2008 by Shan
For those who don’t know, I won the Xbox 360 at CFUnited ‘06 from Microsoft’s booth. Immediately upon receipt, I had to spend $150 on this “free” system for a wireless network adapter and one game, just to play it. That’s the most expensive free system ever.
That Xbox lasted a long time, relatively speaking… It [...]
Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Shan
I love how Microsoft claims that there was no outage. Sure, only a small percentage of people were able to log in and play over the past week, but that’s not an outage. Apparently the servers never went down, they were just overwhelmed. Next, the power company will say “Sure, only a small percentage of [...]
Posted on December 25th, 2007 by Shan
It’s been mostly ignored by the social media sites, but XBL has been having major issues the past few days. Inability to log in, people getting kicked off of XBL in the middle of online games, etc… And it’s a worldwide problem, not just in the US. Hopefully Microsoft can actually provide us with the [...]
Posted on December 14th, 2007 by Shan
Last week, I was in the middle of some Team Fortress 2 when everyone started yelling at me that my mic was producing nothing but static. It would seem that the frail little wire that connected it to the controller must have shorted out. It was time to get a new headset.
First I went and [...]