Hey Forza fans! Following Insight Racing’s solid start to the CTSCC season in Daytona last week, I’ve made virtual replicas of both BMW race cars for road racing and Forza fans alike to drive and enjoy in Forza Motorsport 4. To show my support for the Ohio-based team, I’ll be giving away these designs for free for the duration of… Read more →
Category: Xbox 360
2554 AMG Transport Dynamics M12 Warthog FAV
Look what I just found in the Forza Autovista garage! Don’t know when or how it got there, but it has me wondering what auto reviews might be like in 500+ years. Maybe something like this: The 2554 AMG Transport Dynamics M12 Wathog FAV is powered by a 12-litre hydrogen-injected ICE powerplant. In a standard 1G environment, the Warthog has… Read more →
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 be the virtual tire physics… Read more →
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 said they were going to… Read more →
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 development on the Turn 10… Read more →
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 my clients, I can often… Read more →
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 make sure you get the… Read more →
Get on Xbox Live with cheap wireless-to-Ethernet tutorial
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, is located two stories above in my office, however, the logistics… Read more →
Project Gotham Racing versus real life
Though there really is no substitute for the real thing, video games are excellent ways to curb your own need for speed. You won’t die in a fiery crash. Your insurance premiums will never go up. You don’t even have to leave the house. Although I haven’t been playing for a couple weeks now, PGR3 is definitely one of my… Read more →