Xbox 360 – Page 15 – Iain Douglas Stewart

Fighting fire with fire

By Iain 16 August 2010Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

This is all about Firefight, the super cool mode on Halo 3: ODST where you are in an arena and wave after wave of Covenant rush at you, shooting their futuristic neon laser guns in your direction. It was going to be about Pokémon, I figured I'd not written about it in a while. I am still playing Pokémon Emerald…

Bubble-heads unite!

By Iain 16 August 2010Internet, Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

There I was, playing Halo 3, waiting for Matchmaking to do it's stuff, as you do. The teams popped up, and whose was the first name I noticed, directly above mine on the blue team? Blimey, it's only GRcade moderator The Alchemist "Tiarny" Penguin. I fired off a quick "hi lol" message to him just as the game was starting…

Tenpeat – 50g

By Iain 30 July 2010VideogamesNo Comments

Don't hold back your true potential! Win 10 Ranked Matches in a row! Well, after a few failed attempts at trying organise a boosting session for it on TrueAchievements, I managed to win it legit. It was so different to how I won the win-10-ranked-games-in-a-row Achievement in regular Street Fighter IV. There, I was flitting between ranked and custom games,…

Adon is the man

By Iain 19 July 2010VideogamesNo Comments

Sorry Dan, but my time with you is over. Adon is my new all time favourite now, he's just so awesome. He works well delivering constant pressure, or sitting back and snuffing out any incoming attacks. I'm still working out the best ways to use the Rising Jaguar - it's just not possible to use it as a Shoryuken-type attack,…

But Daddy I wanted to eat the lemon

By Iain 18 July 2010Reflections, Videogames2 Comments

Went to see Jasmine (and Mum, David and Katie as well) yesterday, got to give her her belated birthday presents. We got her this turtle thing that plays little tunes while roaming around launching little plastic balls out of it's back that'll encourage her to crawl after it. Well, we put some batteries in it and as soon as it…

Infinity!

By Iain 15 July 2010VideogamesNo Comments

Just a quick one to say that I got an Infinity rating on Lips last night, singing Viva La Vida by Coldplay. Then, immediately after, Jane got an Infinity rating on "a song I can't remember which I'll edit in when I've asked her later tonight". None for two months, then two in a row! Awesome! The Avatar Award didn't…

Number one in the world!

By Iain 10 July 2010Videogames4 Comments

I've finally achieved my dream of being number one on a leaderboard on an Xbox 360 game! Yesterday we downloaded Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations for Lips, and after our first go we saw that we could easily get to the top spot. We sang it a few more times, each time getting closer and closer until finally:…

Grifball!

By Iain 7 July 2010Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

Bungie's Double XP Weekend playlist of choice this last weekend was Grifball. I adore Grifball. Created by Burnie Burns of Rooster Teeth, thanks to the wonder of Halo 3's Forge map creation tool and the fully customisable game-types, then combined with being able to spread these around via your own personal File Share, Grifball is undoubtedly the most successful user-created…

I love the Eighties

By Iain 26 June 2010Music, VideogamesNo Comments

Lips: I Love the 80's is absolutely amazing, I have to mention this. Jane has always loved 80's music and picked it up in Asda earlier in the week. An inspired decision, I must admit. I was surprised how many songs I knew - or at least thought I knew! It seems I mostly only know the catchy chorus bits,…

Defense Grid? Defense Good, more like!

By Iain 24 June 2010VideogamesNo Comments

All four Resurgence packs are out now, 80msp each, 5 new Achievements in all, 10g each for a total of 50g. Stunning new levels, great fun. Service Interruption is an interesting one - I found that a good way to stop the aliens getting near the cores was to install Meteors - they were able to hit the waves better…