This Xbox Life

For those who celebrate the holiday, we at This Xbox Life would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving and a Happy Weekend for those who don't.  Due to the busy week/weekend we will not be recording episode 16 until next week.  Please remember to get your images in for the contest and listen to episdoe 16 for our winner. -bjswick33 Read More

Advertising in video games I recently re-booted Battlefield 2142 (EA doesn't have BF2 for Mac's... so I have to make due with what I have). After I started the game, was almost Instantly greeted to a nice wonderful billboard Ad.... right in the middle of a video game set 134 years AHEAD of our current time period, trying to get us gamers to buy things, which is nothing new... Until I saw a Obama - Biden ad's being put into Burnout Paradise. Now, to make it clear... I am a ... Read More

Hello all and welcome to episode 15 "Nothing Rock Band".  I'm sure all of you are happy to hear that and are excited to get started.  This week we cover some New Xbox Experience, This Xbox Life forums, Gears of War 2 ranking system, a little GTA IV DLC, and finish up with our VIP section.  Sit back and enjoy! Episode 15 -bjswick33 Read More

I recently completed the game Left 4 Dead and I can say this.  It is one of those games that you jump in and play wondering "So what is this Zombie Apocalypse I have been hearing about" and walk away saying "WOW, what an amazing game".   This game really took me by surprise.  I heard about the waves of zombies, but I guess I did not realize that these are not your typical zombies.  These guys can move and move FAST.  This ... Read More

Ok, I finally got Call of Duty: World at War and have completed the VERY SHORT campaign.  The single player game only took about 4 - 5 hours to complete.  This is actually both good and bad.  Bad in the fact that if you enjoy the game but don't like multiplayer, then you will of course be mad that you spent $60 on this game.  It is good in the fact that in my opinion the game sucks and I was glad ... Read More

Well everyone knows that I have switched from my loveable Xbox 360 Pro launch console survivor (may it work forever) to my workhorse and dear friend the Xbox 360 Elite (its black!). Well there is a slight problem. I have about 16 GBs of information to somehow magically get on my brand new 120 GB hard drive. Unfortunately I cannot just magically wish the data was transferred successfully, and my puny 256 MB card will take a long time to transfer all ... Read More