By Glen A. It never fails. You buy an upgraded DVD player that does HDMI. However, your TV only does DVI. So, you buy an adapter to turn a DVI cable into HDMI on one end. But then, you buy a Xbox 360 Elite, which also has HDMI, but you want to route your sound [...]
By Glen A. It’s out. The most anticipated game of 2007 has hit the stores. When I bought our Xbox 360s (yes, I waited until now to do it), I preordered a couple of copies of Halo 3. Ten days later, I picked them up and then went to work on the campaign. It didn’t [...]
By Glen A. It’s been a while since I played the Madden series. My boys play it regularly, along with NCAA football, but I’ve not touched either game for several months. It might even be longer than that, to tell you the truth. There are some games that I will play campaign mode on–or in [...]
By Glen A. I’m a novice when it comes to war games. I’m aware of the Call of Duty series and some other things. I guess Halo 3 is a war game, too, but it’s not nearly as strategic and does not offer opportunities to manipulate multiple men. That’s probably why I like it so [...]
By Glen A. As I mentioned in an earlier post (Xbox 360 Elite, see below), I bought two 360s, one for upstairs and one for downstairs. Aside from allowing the boys to play what they want on one while I play on the other, we do frequently use system link to play Halo multi-player. Playing [...]
By Glen A. In the post about the Xbox 360 Elite (see below), I mentioned a couple of accessories that I got with it. I bought two wireless controllers ($49.99 each), two play and charge kits ($19.99 each) and two rechargeable battery packs ($14.99 each). The controllers are the ones made by Microsoft, not a [...]
The next thing you’ll notice when you turn it on is that its loud. In a confined space, it is very loud…