Archive for the 'video games' Category

Red Ring of Death

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Unfortunately for us our XBox 360 has succumbed to the red ring of death phenomena. We found an interesting tutorial on Youtube which indicated that wrapping the XBox in towels for 20 minutes can some times fix the problem, and that actually worked! The first two times, since then the XBox has begun flashing the [...]

Sims3

Friday, August 15th, 2008

I’m excited about the prospect of The Sims 3 which opens the door to the Sims neighborhood and allows them to interact as a community a little easier.
I love playing The Sims 2 but have been disappointed by a few things, like how hard it really is to tell the difference in body shapes as [...]

Red Ring of Death

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

In random news we seem to have be having bad luck with technology lately, but things have evened out, thankfully. We never seem to have batteries, if I have them for the camera I wind up cannibalizing them temporarily for something else, last time I went to use my camera I actually had batteries but [...]

Good Birthday

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I think it’s safe to say the munchkin had a good birthday. He’s flaked out willingly and gone to bed. He wound up not having a nap. He got a lot of nice gifts, and we all ate a lot of good food, and he got to play with our friend’s children. We had a [...]

Televisions and Gaming Systems

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I haven’t been much on playing with our XBox 360 since we moved because it’s up in the loft and I don’t like to be up there when the munchkin is awake because it’s all full of electronics that he could easily destroy. When he’s in bed then I feel I have other things that [...]

Geeking Out

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

This has to be the coolest video game console set up I’ve ever seen.
In case anyone is not as geeky as me that’s the T.A.R.D.I.S which is The Doctor’s time travel device in Doctor Who.
While I don’t really need a video game console. There’s an extremely geeky part of me that’s wondering if it would [...]

Gifts

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Our wedding anniversary is coming up and I’m trying to decide what to get my husband. It’s hard to think of what a thoughtful gift would be when he’s not really the kind of person who likes or wears men’s jewelry. Generally in this case it’s finding the appropriate video game or strange and unusual [...]

Jericho vs. Conan

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

My husband and I were out at the local mall yesterday and decided to pick up another game for the XBox 360. We have XBox Live so that we can take advantage of things like demos for various games before we buy them.
I’m not that up on first-person shooters, but when I was asked to [...]

Completed DOA4!

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

I just beat Dead or Alive 4. This morning I completed story mode with all of the characters, and unlocked “Helena”. I completed story mode with Helena and beat the game!
I’ve unlocked the easter egg character of “Lady Master Chief”, but haven’t had a chance to play with her yet. Looks interesting. I had a [...]

360: Dead or Alive 4 perils

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

We picked up Dead or Alive 4 for the XBox 360 over the weekend, but playing it was thwarted because the disc was broken inside. It would boot up but very sluggishly and would only let you play a few rounds before freezing up.
Then the XBox decided that the disc was in fact a DVD [...]