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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Filed under 'xbox360'
➠ July 28, 2010
Xbox Engineering Blog: Achievements Unlocked
Interesting piece on the creation of the Xbox 360 achievements system.
➠ September 9, 2009
“Authenticity”
My favourite achievement in "The Beatles: Rock Band"
➠ July 29, 2009
Upgrade Xbox 360 hard drive
How to upgrade an XBox 360 hard drive from 20Gb to 120Gb without paying MS a stupid amount of premium for it coming in a plastic shell. I just did this and it was a pain in the ass, but I saved over $100. I think that was worth it!
➠ June 1, 2009
LucasArts.com | The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
The original Monkey Island game, “remastered” and coming soon to Xbox. “How appropriate. You fight like a cow.”
➠ November 18, 2008
For sale: Red ring of death
The in-store demo Xbox 360 at Target bites the dust.
➠ October 26, 2008
A thoroughly productive weekend
My Xbox gamertagusernamethingummy is the unimaginative RodBegbie if you want to befriendify me. (At least until I overcome my aversion to paying Microsoft TEN! FUCKING! DOLLARS! to change it)
➠ February 6, 2008
➠ November 30, 2007
Dash Update deets revealed: DivX support, child account and Live ID problem fixed - Xbox 360 Fanboy
XBox 360 adds native DiVX playback. Between this, Rock Band and Space Giraffe, the XBox 360 is slowly tipping from “If someone gave me a free one, I’d sell it on eBay” (where the PS3 still lives) to “Hmmm… If I could pick up a cheap one….”
I’m not yet at a stage where I care enough to work out what the differences between all the different models are, though. Perfect example of the Paradox of Choice, there.
➠ September 18, 2007
Nelson's Weblog: Space Giraffe
Sounds fucking AMAZING! Do I dare buy a $300 console, just to play a $5 game?
➠ April 9, 2007
Kotaku: Xbox 360 Text Input Device
Good lord. When I saw pass by the other day in my RSS reader, I assumed it was a piss-take photoshop job. Nope, it’s real — QWERTY in your hands.
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.