Faraway, So Close

Immersion is a project by a New York Times photographer showing how focused kids can be while playing video games. (Watch the video here) Basically he has a video camera mounted behind/in the screen that the kids are playing the games on so you’re staring right at them staring at you playing the [...]

One of our biggest distractions right now is a iPhone/iPod touch game called Wurdle. I’ll let this review tell the story but basically it’s Boggle for your finger:

Sue and I have been passing the iPod back and forth as we try and best each other’s score. Right now Sue’s got the highest at [...]

Guess what showed up today out of nowhere. A Purolator delivery with a 120GB hard drive. How bizarre. Glad to know I wasn’t crazy in pursuing this but it would’ve been nice if someone, somewhere at Xbox support had noted that they got my hard drive and sent it back on my [...]

Updated: 9/18/2008 I got it back! A 120GB hard drive showed up today via Purolator.
Here’s my sob story. It’s decidedly a “first world problem.”

Update: 09/11/2008 4:30pm Call #2 to Xbox support yielded the same result as call #1. Someone stating that they were as high up as I [...]

Second Skin takes an intimate look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs). Second Skin introduces us to couples who have fallen in love without meeting, disabled players who have found new purpose, addicts, Chinese gold-farming sweatshop workers, wealthy online entrepreneurs and legendary guild [...]

Yes, that’s a screenshot from Halo 3 showing my first win in online “competition.” Excuse me, I have to go put some more tape on my glasses and finish assembling my Star Wars figurine collection.

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To celebrate Xbox Live’s 5th birthday, Microsoft is giving away a free copy of Carcasonne to everyone for “Christmas.” My gamertag is iChris:
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If you’ve been holding off getting a Xbox 360 for that special someone (aka yourself), Futureshop has a deal where you can get the Guitar Hero 2 bundle (game and 1 guitar) included with any Xbox 360 system purchased. The GHII bundle is worth $99 so it’s a heck of a deal they’ve got [...]