January 28, 2007
Double Agent Tips from Prima Games
Infiltrate John Brown’s army as agent Sam Fisher in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent with some help from Prima Games.
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Rainbow Six Vegas Tips from Prima Games
Take back Vegas from the terrorists in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas with some help from Prima Games and their Game Guide.
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Rainbow Six Multiplayer Tips from Prima Games
Make the fight count in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas multiplayer on Xbox Live with these tips from Prima Games and their Vegas Games Guide.
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Tiger Woods 07 Tips from Prima Games
Experience the best golf game in the world and join Tiger Woods on the PGA Tour. Get some extra help with these tips from Prima Games.
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The Legend of Spyro Tips from Prima Games
Discover the origins of the most famous purple dragon in video games, and get some help from Prima Games with these tips from the Spyro Games Guide.
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Scarface Tips from Prima Games
Conquer Miami and build a drug empire as the one and only Tony Montana in Scarface: The World is Yours with these tips from Prima Games.
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Innovative Services from XUG
Xbox Users Group looks at their great new Messenger Bot and the services it offers to gamers.
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Sonic The Hedgehog Tips from Prima Games
Hit outrageous speeds as the Blue Blur in Sonic the Hedgehog. Break the sound barrier with these tips from the Sonic Prima Games Guide.
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Code Weekend features: Part 4/4
It is almost 4am… and this installment of Code Weekend is coming to a close. It has been a radical time and man… we have done some amazing things. Here are the last little bits of goodness:
- Cut over to the three-server architecture is complete!
And you thought things were running fast before, now almost every request (that I can see in the process monitor is filling in under 1 second. Talk about an improvement! I hope you are all enjoying the speed! - Brand new XML Import process
We now have a super-mega-ultra-auto threading import process that will
probably cut TWO HOURS off the daily blog processing. How did we do
this? Because Steve is a genius that is how. - Friendly URLs are here
To access your blog you no longer have to type .asp files and variable names… simply use the format:
http://www.360voice.com/tag/<your gamertag>
- Xbox blogs will now mention gamerscore levels
Your Xbox will now mention when you cross the 100k mark, a 10k mark or a 1k mark in gamerscore… and will make special entries on your first time at 10k and 100k. So that should give you a little something more to look forward to. - Added more things to the share page
The share page for your blog now has more information about the RSS links and the XML web services for your exploring and sharing pleasure. - Favs List Edit Screen
If you have cookies enabled, as you browse the site you get an auto-generated favs list of the blogs you visit. You can now edit that list by clicking the link in the nav menu. Deleting people from the list sets their view count to zero and removes them. This should give you some control over who appears in there and allows you to remove people when their tags change. - New support tools for gamertag changes
Due to the new data structure we suddenly realized that there was no good way to migrate people when they change their tags. That required an emergency code session so that we could get through the back log.
So that is it! This is where we end. Code Weekend II has officially come to a close. Steve heads back to North Carolina tomorrow and we both try to recover our brains before work on Monday. We are both excited about all of the great architecture changes and new features.
There are so many more ideas that we had planned that didn’t make it in this round. We ended up having to spend far more time than we imagined on the platform technologies which left little energy to tackle end-user features. Sure, we did get a fair mount in… but the list is still long. If there was a super-feature you were hoping for that didn’t appear this weekend, add a comment to this blog post. That will help us prioritize what we continue to work on.
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January 27, 2007
The latest list of linkage
It is time for me to clear out my list of lovable linkables! Here are the latest people mentioning 360voice:
Ice Cavern Studios
"Ok, so I just realized how much I’ve been spoiled by the XBox 360 and it’s online community stuff."
Arbitration
"You know why should my brain have all the fun? why not my electronic appliances too."
Boxed Way
"Check out 360voice.com which has currently over 70.000 members and become one of one of the biggest Xbox 360 communities on the net!"
dotKenneth’s Blog
"By now you may be saying, “Wow. That was way too long.” Well, I have a solution!"
Centurion73
"I was confused and a bit amused at the idea."
Insomniac’s Dream Sequence
"In the 54 days (according to 360voice) I’ve played Saints Row I’ve played in around 500 multi player matches where I’ve been subjected to the gamer’s dichotomy."
Bully’s World
"Can it be true a machine blogging? Well if his robot dog can do it then why not his Xbox?"GeeksHideout
"This is not something that you can post to from your 360 dashboard, but something that the Xbox itself writes…"Sarah
"If you are interested in my gaming habits (or even if you aren’t) this is pretty funny…"
Thanks everyone! We appreciate being a part of the conversation!
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