The Halo 3 UGVM league is underway, with our team romping home to abject defeat in our first game. Getting thrashed at Slayer was one thing. Getting slaughtered at Rocket Race could be forgiven due to it being our first time on that mode. But managing to utterly fail at Crazy King was just embarrassing. [...]

The wife and I are partaking in the UGVM Halo 3 Tournament over the next few weeks. A change from the old format, this time it’s 2v2 with three rounds per game – Rocket Race, Team Slayer, and Crazy King. Everyone knows that Buckskin’ll win, of course – but unlike the last knockout format this [...]

Microsoft has finally got around to releasing the Xbox 360 Licence Migration Tool, a method for people like me to transfer content from old consoles to new. Y’see, each purchased download – whether that’s an add-on for a retail game, or an Xbox Live Arcade title – is licensed in two ways: on the console, [...]

When I write articles for bit-tech I occasionally happen upon a topic that a full-time staffer is writing about. When this happens, one of the stories gets put on the long spike – usually mine. Below is one such story, which I figured I’d reclaim from the archives and post here – despite it being [...]

Quite some time ago I bought a Targa DRH-5100x DVD/HDD recorder, and figured out a way to turn off the detection of MacroVision content protection signals. After enjoying the fruits of my labour, I wrote it up and spread the joy around the web, but sadly neglected to link to it from the blog itself. [...]

Today I received my limited-edition copy of Alone In The Dark for the Xbox 360. I’ve been looking forward to it for a little while, and my appetite had been whetted by the tech demo videos available on the Xbox Marketplace. So, what’s it like? Disappointing. The control system is clunky, the audio has glitches, [...]