Wits & Wagers board game

Yazan: admin | 27 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Entertainment, Family

I’d heard about the game Wits & Wagers from a few sources, and it sounded interesting. I’m trying to spend more family time off-screen, and playing board games together is one of the things I’m working into the schedule a couple of times per week. The wife found this game on a half-off sale so [...]

MS Live chat: People without headsets can still hear you!

Yazan: admin | 13 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Entertainment

We’ve been playing Uno online since we acquired our Xbox 360.  Uno supports voice communications using a headset attached to your controller.  We have not been able to chat with people since it didn’t come with a headset.  From what I’ve seen, a lot of people assume if a player doesn’t have a headset that [...]

Xbox Live Gold: necessary evil

Yazan: admin | 07 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Entertainment, Software

When we first got our Xbox 360, I was excited that you could play Uno online without having to upgrade to a Gold membership, which is basically $50 per year or less.  I tried to get on yesterday and it wouldn’t let me.  It turns out it was a holiday special Microsoft was running, and [...]

Good deal on an Xbox 360 hard drive… Maybe.

Yazan: admin | 02 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Gadgets and Tech

We received an Xbox 360 Arcade edition for Christmas this year. It came with a 256 MB memory unit (MU), but no hard drive. The MU is all you need if you only want to play a few arcade games, maybe store some save games. The problem is if you want to watch any video [...]

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