Archive for the ‘News and Events’ Category

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Most recommendations on XboxDad are for the kids – but this one is for Dad.
Sure, super heroes start out for kids, but this game is truly about the Dark Knight.  It takes you inside the dark world of Arkham Asylum, where all of Gotham’s worst are locked up.  Of course, Joker has taken over, [...]

February 26, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Dads, News and Events  No Comments

ChristianGamerDad.com is now XboxDad.com

With the start of 2010, we wanted to do a fresh start on this website.
“XboxDad” was a persona on Xbox.com that I used to contribute to.  This site used to be ChristianGamerDad.com, but I wanted to be sure that everyone felt welcome to learn about family friendly gaming, even if you weren’t a Dad or [...]

January 1, 2010   Posted in: News and Events, highlights  No Comments

LEGO Rock Band Announced

Earlier today, it was announced that:
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games have joined forces with the LEGO Group, Harmonix and MTV Games to merge two of the most popular videogame franchises with the creation of LEGO® Rock Band®. The unique family-friendly music experience is currently in development by TT Games in partnership with [...]

April 21, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: News and Events  No Comments

Xbox Live – Family Game Night – TONIGHT

Have you ever played Scrabble or Battleship with someone 1000 miles away? 
Me neither – let’s try it !!
A few weeks ago, the fun folks at Electronic Arts teamed with Hasbro to release several classic board games for the Xbox 360.  They are available via the Game Marketplace as Arcade titles for 800 [...]

April 14, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: News and Events  No Comments

Dash of Destruction — Fun and Free Xbox Arcade game

Add a Dash of Giggles
Another Dash of Loud Laughter
Plus a Dash of “No, don’t eat my truck with your dinosaur“
That’s how you get a “Dash of Destruction” — and now you know what my house has sounded like since my sons and I downloaded this free Xbox Arcade title from the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Doritos ran [...]

December 30, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Game Reviews, Games for Kids, News and Events  No Comments

I am an Xbox Dad !

If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know that the only thing I enjoy more than Data Protection and storage technologies is gaming — and specifically family gaming is an area that I think is less covered than it should be.
Well, the kind folks over at XBOX.com, specifically Trixie and Duncan [...]

May 1, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: News and Events  No Comments

Co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons has died — Gary Gygax 1938-2008

source : http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885383-7.html?tag=nefd.only
Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, died on Tuesday at the age of 69, due to heart problems.
I never met Gary nor have I been to a D&D convention – and I think the last time that I rolled a 20-sided dice was in junior high school.
However, some of my favorite Xbox360 [...]

March 4, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: News and Events  No Comments

I am going to miss HD DVD

Farewell friend — we hardly knew ye.
Yes, with the news that Toshiba is pulling out and Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the HD-DVD player add-on for Xbox360, the format war is over. And that is a good thing.
While we early adopters may have had to bet on two horses, mainstream consumers can now [...]

February 25, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: News and Events  No Comments

HEROES happen here

In case you are of the very few IT professionals who haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has an exciting launch coming up next month:
Windows Server 2008
SQL Server 2008
Visual Studio 2008
And I am very jazzed to get to attend the global launch event on February 27, 2008 in Los Angeles — manning the File & Storage booth [...]

January 25, 2008   Posted in: News and Events  No Comments

My Xbox 360 has its own blog

Everybody is blogging.
I’ve been blogging at Microsoft for almost a year — with my sincere thanks to all of you who read that blog.
Recently, I started contributing to some larger blogs within Microsoft, including:
SYSTEM CENTER – the family of management products from Microsoft that DPM is part of
WINDOWS SERVER – which totally trips me out, and [...]

January 25, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Lifestyle, News and Events  No Comments