Category Archives: Games

Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Xbox 360) first impressions

March 8, 2010 – 08:57

Some initial thoughts halfway through my most anticipated sequel this year…
The story’s poor. What am I doing really? You find this guy, now this guy, oh here’s something different: find this place! Whilst you’re doing that random people will pop up like something out of Time Crisis 2 and try and kill you. Oh and [...]

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Xbox Live home network port forwarding

April 21, 2009 – 11:15

I’ve moved house and being nowhere near the router that connects us to the net, I had to purchase an Xbox Wireless Adapter (rip-off!). Once it was setup, I had to test the network connection. For some reason UPnP wasn’t working even when enabled on the Linksys WRT54GR, so I had to set up port [...]

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Xbox 360 freezing on logo

March 19, 2009 – 20:14

My Xbox 360 kept freezing on the startup logo until I eventually turned it off and then on by hitting the DVD-tray open button. This probably indicates that the DVD drive is defective or on its way out – meh. Warranty here I come!

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Gears of War (Xbox 360) Is Awesome, but..

November 9, 2008 – 18:04

So I got Gears of War 2 on Friday for my Xbox 360. It’s an astonishing game: the graphics are second to none, the animation is very realistic, and the intensity of some of the gameplay is just awesome. The online play is also very well done. You get your regular deathmatch, but what’s brilliant [...]

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