My FM3 JDM Shining Monkey Lancer Evo 10 GSR

Forza Motorsport 3 is out for Xbox 360 and I’ve finally had some time to sink my teeth into it a bit. The short is this game tops the racing sim market. I played Sony’s Gran Turismo Prologue and FM3 delivers a closer-to-life driving experience. My reasons are plentiful, but the biggest difference might well [...]

Games people play!

That’s my MyGamerCard.Net gamercard, which shows what I’ve played recently, my gamerscore and rep (five gold stars baby!) on Xbox Live. I like driving and racing simulators as well as first and third person shooters and the odd flying game. Some of my favourite titles right now include Forza Motorsport 3, Call of Duty: Modern [...]

Download the Guitar Hero 3 demo for Xbox 360

Move over Joel Zumaya, my wife and I are already getting our guitair-wailing fingers going on the heals of my beloved’s “Guitar Hero” Rock Out 30th Birthday Party. We had about 20 people over and most of them partook in a jam session or two (more in some cases). At least two of her girlfriend’s [...]

Forza Motorsport 2 demo review

Yesterday I got home from driving the Ariel Atom at Shannonville Motorsport Park – yes you read that right – and what did I find when I fired up Xbox Live and checked out the Marketplace? The Forza 2 demo! I have been eagerly anticipating this game’s release for well over a year, tracking its [...]

Domo arigato, Mr. journauto

People always ask me on Xbox Live what my gamertag (name) “journauto” means. They don’t always pronounce it right, Basically, ‘journ’ comes from ‘journalist’ and ‘auto’ is short for, well, ‘automobile.’ That’s it really. And, when I’m not out test driving the latest and greatest on four wheels or writing about it for one of [...]

360-to-PC networking

Another great benefit of being able to communicate with my protected home wi-fi network is that the 360 lets me stream my music and photos stored on my PC to my HDTV monitor at roughly 54 Mbps thanks to Windows Media Connect software found on Xbox.com. Different versions are available for different operating systems, so [...]

Get on XBL with cheap wireless-to-Ethernet tutorial

Jan 27/06 .. EST 11:10 PM I played with the 360 a few weeks before subscribing to the XBOX Live service. After hours upon hours of playing PGR3, Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo over and over again all by myself, I was ready to get onto Live. My cable modem and, thus my Internet connection, [...]