{"id":1894,"date":"2007-01-18T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/lovin-my-xbox\/"},"modified":"2007-01-18T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T15:13:41","slug":"lovin-my-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/lovin-my-xbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovin&#8217; my XBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I snarfed me an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/hardware\/?WT.svl=nav\">XBox 360<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeroplan.com\">Aeroplan<\/a> points this Christmas, and have been having a blast with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearsofwar.com\">Gears of War<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/games\/p\/projectgothamracing3\/\">Project Gotham Racing 3<\/a>, and especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/games\/m\/marbleblastultralivearcadexbox360\/default.htm\">Marble Blast Ultra<\/a> (James&#8217; favourite too).<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing all of those in multiplayer mode too.  Gears of War in particular, has three different multiplayer modes, one of which is novel (to me at least, as a long time PC gamer); the ability to play the single player campaign cooperatively with another human.  I used this a couple of times on boss levels that were too difficult for me to manage with only the help of a computer partner.  Nicely done, Epic.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re on XBox Live, send me a message or a friend request; I&#8217;m &#8220;GongaThrash&#8221; (my old D&amp;D handle from high school).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I snarfed me an XBox 360 with Aeroplan points this Christmas, and have been having a blast with Gears of War, Project Gotham Racing 3, and especially Marble Blast Ultra (James&#8217; favourite too). I&#8217;ve been playing all of those in multiplayer mode too. Gears of War in particular, has three different multiplayer modes, one of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}