Xbox Live Problems

It seems even the money Xbox owners are pouring into the Live service is not keeping the servers alive this holiday season. People are reporting issues with the system and the inability to log in. I guess all of the people who got 360's this holiday must be bogging down the system and its unable to handle everyone. Come on, Microsoft, you should be better than this. You make us pay $50 a year and now we have issues on what is probably the biggest Live weekend of the year (other than Halo 3's launch of course). Hopefully, the will redeem themselves by giving the gamers something back for their issues. I, being out of town at the moment, am not experiencing any of these issues as my Xbox is sitting on the shelf unused, but I know many people are.

And the All-Time Best Selling Console in Japan is...

the Nintendo DS. Yes the DS has just managed to push across the line that the PS2 had drawn in the Japanese soil. The DS has now sold almost 21 million units, edging the PS2 by 50,000 as of now. Now, remember this is only Japan, not worldwide. The PS2 is still the worldwide leader by a huge margin as it has sold 120 million units worldwide, and is still surprisingly doing decent. The DS, meanwhile, has sold about 55 million worldwide. Look for it to break the PS2's record in the coming years with the way its selling right now. You can literally not find a DS on the shelves at many stores even though it is a three year old console. That is a mindblowing fact in my opinion.

Xbox Motion Sensing Controllers?? (Rumor)

Team Xbox has just brought to public attention the fact that Microsoft has been experimenting with motion sensing technology for the past two years. Kind of obvious really. I mean with a bank roll that deep for the Xbox division alone you would think there would be plenty of R&D in every department but especially this area of technology after Sony and Nintendo have implemented it into their controllers. I think Team Xbox is saying that these controllers won't appear in the Xbox 360's lifespan but rather the next generation of the Xbox. Hopefully, that gives them enough time to make it a lot better than Sixaxis, which was slapped together in order to take some of the medias attention away from the Wii and its motion controls when it was announced.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you. Get any good gaming gifts this holidays. Just shout them out in the comments. Personally, I got, as previously discussed, Call of Duty 4 and Half Life 2 (no, not Orange Box, just Half Life 2 for the Xbox 1) so a pretty decent haul. I'm planning to pick up Mass Effect and Orange Box as soon as I get back home and those games should hold me over till next year sometime. So I'll be playing Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, Orange Box, and probably some Rock Band and Halo 3 for the next few weeks/months.

Oppositely recieved gifts

Ok, I have just found out two of my gaming gifts this year. I am getting Call of Duty 4 for the 360 which is amazing because I don't know whether or not I would've picked this up on my own because I can't really justify buying another shooter right now, even if it may be one of the best games of the year. So this gift pretty much takes away the guilt of it. The second one is Half Life 2 for Xbox 1. Yah, I'm cringing too. Great time to get Half Life just as I was going to get the Orange Box. Wow, that is ironic. I plan on returning that one as soon as possible to get some credit towards Orange Box. Hey at least I got COD4

Xbox 360 Racing Wheel Price Drop

The Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel, which really isn't wireless if you want to use force feedback, has had a price cut and now it is $99 and it comes bundled with a Forza 2 Demo. Now was it just me or did it used to come with the full game of Forza? Anyways, this is a fairly decent deal, although I did see a Racing Wheel at Wal-Mart for $75... must have been a mistake. Stupid Wal-Mart people.

Spiderman 3 First Impressions

I recently borrow Spiderman 3 for the Xbox 360 from my friend. This game isn't really that bad. The swinging mechanism is actually very fun. The bad, part is that is the funnest part of the game. It's kinda bad when the best part of a game is the traveling in between missions. The combat is passable. It gets very tedious and repetitive after a while. The climbing on walls is horribly difficult. The camera inverts strangely and you can barely control yourself. I'm about halfway through it and the boss battles have been button mashers. The parts you have to diffuse a bomb are basically just mini-games slapped together. It may seem like I really hate this game, but it is not like that. I'm actually going back to play in between sessions of Rock Band, strangely. All in all, it is a fairly decent game, but don't buy it if you have either of the first two. It's really just more of the same thing.

Feet hurting like hell

Ahhh is it just me or does everyone's feet hurt crazily after playing the drums on Rock Band. The foot pedal is either too hard to push down or I'm doing something wrong. I've just been searching the internet and now I've heard that you need to keep your foot down. I guess I'll try that tomorrow and maybe my feet will hurt a bit less and I can finally nail those hard songs.