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Just happened to be browsing the Live Eye pages and not that I am shocked but the online now list for halo 3 beta is growing.

Well after a little trouble (which was almost expected) you can now finally play Halo 3 Beta, and due to those issues, we get a few extra days to play the beta…

We sincerely apologize for the delay.  We know we have a lot of fans that have been waiting for the beta for months, and even took time off of work to start early today.  We really appreciate their enthusiasm, and we hope the small delay won’t damper everyone’s enjoyment of the game. Given the circumstances, we will be extending the duration of the “Halo 3” multiplayer beta from June 6 to June 10, 11:59 PM PDT.

To celebrate our community and gaming in generally we are organizing a little awards ceremony.  More on that when the time comes, or feel free to check out more details here.  Currently shopping for some vendors that might be willing to sponsor a few small prizes for participants and those that recieve an award, we shall see how that goes.  If you want to help sponsor a prize, or have a contact of someone that might be interested in doing so - contact me!

Episode number 42 of XBLRadio is out, I have a small spot on it interviewed about 3FS.  Everyone go tell ZaaM how good his english is, so he can join the fun of podcast interviews

Check out the show, the guys over at XBLRadio are great community guys that offer a variety of video and audio podcasts.  I personally subscribe to all the podcasts that they offer and listen to them as soon as they are released.

well got another interview lined up, all the important folks must be busy In any event this is a bit different then the rest of them its a live radio interview instead of a podcast. so feel free to listen in as I can almost guarantee to fumble my words or something that is sure to make you laugh. The show is broadcasted by magaman. His show is live from 6 to 8 PM EST on Fridays. I told him that I was going to try and call in for around 7PM tomorrow.

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well I just finished up a chat with one of the boys over at XBLRadio, if you dont listen to their podcast, I would suggest checking it out - they are a nice bunch of community guys with a bunch of different podcasts - a video podcast, an xbox live roundtable (for gamers just like you) and a standard news type deal.

I am not promoting it just because I am interviewed on it, because well I generally think I sound like a tool on these type of things. But I do subscribe to their podcasts, and since I just finished the discussion with them, it made me think to mention them to you guys.

I am not sure when the interview will be up, and lucky for me, it was no where near as long as the one with deacon over at unscripted [:D]

You might know of www.360gl.com, and if you dont definately check them out. Here is the official description of them.

is first and foremost a Gaming League and Tournament Site, but we are building the Gamerbase into a useful tool for combining (and referring to) the great community sites that are out there.

I am happy to say that they have added a little feature to display live eye information on their gamers (that have a live eye profile) using the 360friendspot public APIS.

Swing by and check them out, looks like they a Gears of War tournament coming up - you and all your team members can rack up a smooth 1600 MS Points, to bad I completely suck at Gears of War

Well one of our great members over at 3fs posted that the codes needed for the Xbox rewards prizes are now on your rewards page (this is for Contra, the MP’s, and the gamerpics - if you won Fuzion Frenzy and the shirt, at some point they are going to mail it to you. Thanks Kanone.

Play and Win Shooter / Gears of War

Well I finally got an achievement last night during my Gears of War session last night. It was one of the pretty simple achievements - Mix it Up - where you just need to be on the winning team of the 3 different game types. It was also brought to my attention that even though I thought I was going to get a 100 kills with a [insert weapon here] achievement, that there is not one for shotgun kills - which was what most all my achievements were based on, and the one I assumed was going to rack me another achievement, so that wasn’t very wise of me I would say. Thanks to Antediluvia for bringing this to light. This concludes the dates that you can recieve an entry in the Play & Win Shooter Contest, and I believe I should get an entry for each of the 3 days . . . winning is a long shot - but it doesn’t hurt to try (and those prizes are pretty smooth).

Shadowrun Beta

I recently recieved my beta invitation to Shadowrun, but haven’t dedicated a ton of time to it as of yet. Of course in the invitation the NDA was restated that not much else can be said except “Yes, I am playing the beta”. So until the NDA is lifted dont expect to hear a ton more about that. You can keep track of my play time on the game in my Live Eye Profile as you can see at the moment I have only played about an hour or so. Over at 360friendspot we have about 62 current live eye members in the beta and being tracked by our tool, you can see an overview of those users at the Shadow Run Beta Profile Page

360Friendspot / LiveEye

Speaking of 360friendspot and The Live Eye, last night I spent a good amount of time updating some queries after seeing a bunch of sleeping records in the SQL Activity Monitor. This was a hope that what might be causing the slowness or hanging of the site was related to SQL table locks - since I was definately getting time out errors and transactions were hanging out here sleeping. If that resolves, or at least partially resolves the performance issues - I am going to be extremely pleased, but also upset that I didnt find it sooner. I am sure there are more things to optimize - but maybe I am at least going in the right direction at this point.

Crackdown All Nighter, and Rumors

Finally - Happy St Patricks day, and look for an update from my all nighter activities at a later date. Achievements and random video goodness will most likely come of it. There is A rumor posted in my comments about this all nighter being a time that they release some new content or the final 100 points - no clue what that user based it on - but I am all for it!

My buddy ZaaM IT has created an english version of his blog. You may know of him because of the Little Project we work on together. I have updated my link to this version because quite honestly the google translator butchers the Italian to English translation, which was the only way I could read his blog previously. Make sure to go and check out his site.

Well this blog is hosted on the same site as 360friendspot.com. If you didn’t the site performing a bit slower then usual it is because we got some serious media coverage about our site and tools for a change, which drove a TON of traffic our way.

The unscripted interview was completed and available Here, in addition to that we were Dug which was picked up by xbox360fanboy.

Traffic has seemed to slow down a bit, and all of our sites are back to functioning again. It was exciting to say the least - and we have picked up quite a few more Live Eye Members, and hopefully some more active members for the forums.

PS. If you listen to the interview, dont be to harsh - it was probably the most nervous I have ever been in my life.