Tag: XBOX

Xbox 360 vs. PS3 War on Metacritic

In a hilariously titled article, Fanboy Dorks Ruin Metacritic, Kotaku has the low down on an Xbox 360 vs. PS3 war going on at Metacritic. According to Kotaku,

Trouble started when LittleBigPlanet seemed to have an unusually low user rating – currently at 6.4, compared to 95% approval by ‘real’ critics.

It soon became apparent that Xbox fanboys had been posting deliberately low user ratings to spite the PS3-touting infidels. The PS3 nation was quick to respond with an equally daft Gears of War 2 review bomb that has left the Xbox shooter with an embarrassing score of 2.8 at time of posting.

UN Peacekeepers are on standby.

Frankly, I think that’s awesome, especially since these games are so well known that few if anyone is going to be fooled into thinking the low ratings are legitimate (just as the low ratings for Spore at Amazon in protest over that games ridiculous DRM likely had far less impact on game sales than did the folks who Torrented the game rather than buying it).

Maybe for election week we could have a ratings war between blue and red products at Amazon.

Xbox360 Video Streaming

The other day I picked up an XBOX360 largely for streaming Divx video from my basement server to my living room television. With the 60gb version dropped to $299, it wasn’t all that much more expensive than other Divx streaming solutions and I got a videogame console to boot (though I really would have prefered a PS3 on that count, but not for another $100).

Anyway, I got the thing home and hooked it up to a Linksys Wireless N Gaming adapter so I could connect it in with my wireless network.

Setting up the streaming was interesting. I tried to set up the Media Center sharing option with Windows Media on my server, but never could get that to work. The server could see the Xbox but not vice versa.

Fortunately, I was able to navigate to the share directly within the Xbox’s external drive selection menus and everything worked perfectly. Nice. I love it when a plan comes together.

XBOX Gamertag RSS Feed

Last night I bought an XBOX 360, mostly for streaming video from my basement server to my living room (plus the upcoming stream Netflix to XBOX upgrade). I also threw in a few games, though I’m not a big fan of console games.

Anyway, so you can create an account for XBOX Live, and it keeps tracks of what you’re doing on the XBOX, game achievements, etc. Accept there’s no fricking RSS feeds for any of it. WTF?

Fortunately, InternetDuctTape.Com created a Yahoo! Pipe that scrapes your XBOX Live account and then RSS-ifies it. Just visit the Pipe, put in your Gamertag and then Run the pipe. Then select the “Get as RSS” option from the “More Options” drop down to get the RSS version.