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I’ve just bought one of these kits you install in an Xbox 360 controller to help you cheat at Halo and Call Of Duty etc. I don’t play these games at all, i’m an NHL08 man myself, but i quite fancy sticking this kit in my spare controller to see if it works.

I know i have no shame, but i’m only doing it out of curiosity, (i wonder how many others have used that lame excuse).

The real reason im doing it is that i’ll be selling the controller on ebay for a fat profit afterwards. Should be interesting. I’ll update this post after i install the kit.

I’ve just seen the announcement for a new limited edition xbox 360 controller from microsoft.

Here’s the specs:

The award-winning Xbox 360 Wireless Controller now comes in red, with newly designed black accents. Experience wireless gaming from up to 30 feet and enjoy nonstop play with the included Play and Charge cable and red rechargeable battery.

So in otherwords its just like your normal controller, does everything your existing one does - except this one is red! RED! As in doesn’t match anything else to do with your console, in fact it probably doesnt match anything in your house.

I bet after reading this you’ll be tearing the high street apart tomorrow looking for one of those bad boys.

Ok so i take back my criticism of GTAIV a little bit. I played the game the whole way through, and quite enjoyed it, although still not as much as Vice City. So what next? Well i plodded on for a while to get a few more achievements. Did the jumps, Courier Missions, Text cars etc. And then i had an awakening……

…..why the hell was i still playing this game? It wasn’t fun anymore, i was doing this because i felt i had to, not because i wanted to. It was a bit like……………….WORK!!

What in their right minds possessed them to ask you to get TWO HUNDRED pigeons??? How did they think this was ever going to be fun? Especially as you get a wanted star after each one. Do they get off on knowing people are wasting their lives away on this crap?

So i stopped short of the pigeons and traded it in before i drove myself mental.

I’m now off out to do something more constructive like cutting my lawn, a blade of grass at a time using some nail scissors.

Yet again the latest in the constant stream of “Blu-Ray for Xbox 360″ rumours has been debunked. The question i keep asking myself here is,”Who gives a toss anyway?”.

PS3 owners inevitably play the Blu-Ray card every time they get involved in a, “my dads bigger than your dad” discussion with Xbox 360 owners, but they have been royally stitched up and don’t even know it.

The last time i looked the Xbox 360 was primarily supposed to be a games console, not a movie player or a media station or whatever other label you want to come up with.

What do Sony expect you to do? Throw away all the dvds that you collected over the years (and probably only watched once each) and replace them with blu-ray discs that cost a small fortune? Buy a bigger tv to watch them all on? Buy a fancy surround sound system as well? All these new expensive gadgets that are also made by Sony?

And you only started down this road because you wanted to play Gran Turismo 5 (which still hasn’t properly seen the light of day i might add). Don’t be a mug all your life.

Stick your Blu-Ray up your jumper.

There’s nothing worse on Xbox Live than a sore loser. I’ve lost count of the number of times that i’ve gone a goal up on NHL08 only to see my opponent mysteriously disappear into thin air a second later.

Don’t these morons realise that if everyone behaved like this there would be nobody to play against? They would doubtless be the first to cry when someone does it to them.

So which nationality is the worst for people cutting and running? Well my incredibly unscientific (call that biased) straw poll leads me to deduce that the players from the USA are the worst of the bunch. Strangely enough i’d say that Germans are the best of the bunch (just to annoy even more people out there).

I have no real numbers to back this up of course, its just what i’ve seen for myself online. When i am king of the world i’ll commision a proper study into all this, but for now just take it as fact.

Don’t get me wrong, i’ve been a big fan of the Grand Theft Auto series since the early days, and i had sky high hopes for the latest installment.

Perhaps that’s the problem, maybe i was expecting too much. But after you see past the better graphics on the Xbox 360 you’re left with pretty much the same game that was Vice City / San Andreas etc. Sure its a brilliant achievement, the most believable virtual world you can get, you wax lyrical for weeks about this and that and the other.

But you know what? I feel like i’ve seen it all before, Vice City and GTAIII had me gripped, but every installment since then (including the two for the psp) hasn’t won me over in quite the same vein.

Perhaps its because this is the third time i’ve visited Liberty City. Maybe its because i don’t much care for the new central character Niko too much. Maybe im getting tired of the constant knob jokes.

Or perhaps this game was just so over-hyped that it was never going to match my lofty expectations.

What are those 3 letters? They are DLC (or Downloadable Content to give it its proper name).

It has been announced that Xbox 360 owners will be able to download exclusive episodes and other content for Grand Theft Auto IV over the coming months. This content is will not be available to PS3 owners (bless em).

Whether this is a real bragging point for Xbox owners, or just another excuse to bleed them dry remains to be seen. But at least we can stick two fingers up to the PS3 crowd for a while anyway.

So here we are, launch day for GTAIV, the biggest gaming event of the year.

And why am i not playing it right now? Despite having coughed up the money for it months ago?

Well i had the misfortune of pre-ordering my copy from Amazon, i assumed that they would ship the day before (as they stated in the email they sent me), and i would receive it on launch day like everyone else.

But nope, its not arrived and im having to endure EastEnders and make half-hearted, torn-faced conversation with the missus instead.

Get stuffed Amazon and/or the Royal Mail, in future if i pre-order i’ll do it at a real-life shop where i can get served right away.

I’ll still stop short of lining up outside Tescos at midnight with all the pissed up chavs though, i still have SOME standards.

The first issue of the FREE xboxfriends cheats ebook is now released.

Its in compressed .exe format and contains cheats/hints/achievements for loads of the latest xbox360 titles.

Download it today at:

http://www.xboxfriends.co.uk/ebooks/….cheatbook.exe

Enjoy, and feel free to distribute it to all your friends on xbox live.