Why didn’t I buy it you ask???? Here’s another image:

1. Some folks were oddly enough using the signatures on porn sites. Unfortunately, every time a sig is displayed I link to the display location. XBL messages were sent to request the use of the sigs there to be discontinued. And 1 week later, code and the ability to modify the sig was put in place. Use the sig on porn sites and you will be embarresed.

2. Is the most exciting, I’ve begun gathering achievements from xbox live for games. You’ll start seeing these displayed as time allows me to grab them. For now, I’m working on new games and grabing older games as time allows— oldest to newest.

There have been other minor changes to facilitate crawling of google along with some SEO optimizations as well as the purchase of a better domain name to more closely resemble what the site is evolving into… more than just gamer signatures.

I write a VBScript blog over at a site called the IT Knowledge Exchange and they are running a promotion now where if you answer questions and ask questions you earn “knowledge points”, The 3 people with the highest points between now and April 30th will win an Xbox 360 console.

I personally have won prize in a contest here before and I can vouch for the fact that you do in fact get your prizes… so If you know about Information technology, or If you have questions about it, head on over there and sign up to win an Xbox 360!!

Game on!!!

Plus, a side benefit of this is that genre changes (when a game gets moved from one to the other) get updated too! This is a big benefit because I’ve been adding games not in a genre to genres where I thought they should go. Now 360Voice’s Genre’s will override that.

As an additional Side benefit… when new DLC becomes available and the Total Achievements or Total Gamer Score changes it will update as well.

The Final update was a couple of our own genres… like:

• Outdoors
  
• Flight
• Score Whore

Enjoy!

Guitar Hero Wired X-plorer Guitar for Xbox 360 - $9.99 each (while supplies last)

Or optionally, if you have a PS2 still you can get Guitar Hero III for the PS2– really cheap!

Guitar Hero 3 Bundle for PS2 - $29.99 after SAVE20 code (expires 12/31/08)

As I find them I’ll post them in this blog under the category Web Games so they can be found easily. Here is the first one from Microsoft– wonder why they look similar to a Mii??? (oops, I mean Avatar!)

1. “A voting mechanism”, no not for gamersigs– but that’s a good idea too!
2. Video Game reviews.

The second is the one is what I’m unveiling tonight. It’s called One-Hour reviews and the basic premise is explained in the first post in the blog, but to elaborate on what you can expect from the reviews is:

• Brutal honesty in what the bloggers think about the game (yes, there’s more than one. If you’d like to blog about games you purchase send me a freind request and I’ll get you an account setup)
• Humor
• A mini walk through of the hour I played the game, including achievment points earned!
• The writer’s thoughts on if you should buy the game or not.

First up is Star Wars: The Force Unleased.

We’re now on Two dedicated web and SQL Servers, rather than the slower shared servers. Astonishingly I noticed they were running close to 200 databases on the SQL Server the site was previously located on… no wonder it was so slow!

The pages seem to come up much faster now and I’m quite pleased with the outcome, and if I don’t like the performance I’ll always be able to get someone smart enough to understand what I need done to help me out. The other positive thing is this gives me the ability to schedule jobs and tasks to run periodically, which should help make things a little better.

So, now I’ve added a Nintendo Wii to the game system collection… The wife and kids love it. It’s OK and fun enough I guess, but I haven’t seen anything on there that amazes me beyond the 360. I haven’t played twilight princess yet… but got side tracked after I popped it in and loaded a game save.

With the addition of a Nintendo Wii at the homestead, look for some widening of the signatures scope beyond just xbox360 signatures in the coming weeks, especially since my personal roofing project is now complete.

In the mean time, check out the Dark Knight fan art signature created late last week. If you like one of the signatures there, go on over and create a Xbox360 signature.

Everyone, if your Xbox Live account is about to expire (or if you want to just add to your time) I found a pretty decent deal for 13 Months of Xbox Live! for $43.99 with FREE SHIPPING! over @buy.com, plus they have some decent deals on new releases. (a couple of bucks off generally without the waiting in line)