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Zombies!

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So I’ve been playing quite a bit of Call of Duty:MW2 & Black Ops over the last year or so. I finished both single player modes and then proceeded to play the living shit out of the online game going prestige a couple of times on both. With Black Ops there is a Zombie game mode where you are pretty much in a room and waves of zombies try and eat your brains. With one person its pretty boring and actually quite hard after a while.

My new house mate and friend Ben has been resisting the urge to play video games since moving in as he said that he’s got issues with putting the controller down. Well I went away for a few days down south with my girl friend and while I was away Ben picked up the controller.

Suffice to say I now have a partner in crime to kill zombies and I have to say, with 2 people its a hell of a lot more fun and we do get into it quite badly. So if you haven’t played the zombie side yet, get to it as its worth the few hours it vaporises.

FOXTEL On The Xbox 360: A Trial

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I read an article about 4 months ago how Microsoft and FOXTEL were partnering up so that you could stream FOXTEL via the xbox360. Seeing as my ISP iiNet has launched an IPTV service that didn’t require a contract I started to research it a bit more, there are a lot of shows I watch and finding the channels I needed to cover the most number of shows was proving difficult if not impossible. Foxtel has traditionally been a contract based subscription service, they sign you up to 2-3 year contracts slogging you for $100+ a month for 80 channels of which 20 I actually want. iiNet’s fetchTV service was closer to what I wanted at the price I wanted but requires a $400 set top box and my housemate didn’t think it was worth it.

The Xbox recently had a major system update that changed a bunch of stuff and today when I powered it up I noticed the FOXTEL app link and decided to check it out. No contract, packages at a decent price in a setup I liked. So I signed up and slapped down my $34.50 to give it a test run for a month. The channel selection is ok and based on a couple of hours of testing, it’s actually pretty good. It’s not as fast as switching on a set top box but for a streaming service I’ve not had a single buffering problem. Nice work FOXTEL and Microsoft.. I never thought I’d hear myself say those words. I’ll keep testing and report back at the end of the month.

One thing to note its got advertising, so there is still room to improve. But I’ll let that slide for now.