TMD : the Monkey Dogs
In December 2012, I formed a new video games team with a group of people I’d been regularly playing Gears of War 3.
Some of these guys were friends I’d made from the days of LoXgamers, the other guys were the people behind the Final Level Games website & podcast, to which I contribute.
My ethos for the team was simple: “play for fun; play fair“.
The most difficult part of forming the team, was coming up with a suitable name. After days of thinking about it, a game of Beast in Gears 3 provided the solution – we would be called:
TMD : the Monkey Dogs!
The inspiration for the name came from the Locust characters in Gears 3, called Wretches…their nickname; Monkey Dogs.
It seemed to fit our group perfectly.
In early January, I set to the task of creating a Facebook, GooglePlus and Twitter profile for our team, as well as a community forum site.
Please feel free to check out our profiles, join us online (mostly Xbox LIVE), and let us know your thoughts on gaming & tech!
TMD profiles:
- TMD on Facebook
- TMD on GooglePlus
- TMD on Twitter
- TMD community forums
WP7 : Error Code 80150101
I have a HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7. I love being able to play Xbox Live games on the go.
This morning, I open up the Xbox Live tile, and watch the familiar sloooooooooow “Updating… … …” message at top-left of screen, as the games list is refreshed.
I swipe across to my avatar screen to review which achievements I’m going to try & attain today, so I press and hold on my avatar, hit the “refresh” option (this should auto-refresh & notify…sys-update pls..?!) and receive the following message:
“We’re having a problem with the Xbox Live service or your connection. Try again later. Error code: 80150101 [close]“
I exit the Xbox Live app, check my WiFi & 3G connection, check my home router, and check that I can sign in to XBL on my Xbox console.
All working fine. All other WiFi / data services on my phone are fine. I am currently browsing my 360 Dashboard connected to XBL fine.
I restart the phone. Same error message. I press my avatar, to launch the Xbox Live Extras app to review my achievements, messages etc. I receive this message:
“Could not sign in to Xbox LIVE. Please ensure airplane mode is off, you still have a cellular data or Wi-Fi connection, and your account settings are up to date. [ok]“
I recheck all connections, router, phone, WindowsLive ID settings etc – the full 9-yards. All working perfectly with other systems, devices, apps & services.
I have searched the internet using Bing & Google for answers to this, and everything points to an issue with Zune/XBL MarketPlace license issues. All posts dated Nov/Dec 2010.
I was playing Flowerz, viewing & replying to messages yesterday on my Windows Phone 7 perfectly fine. I go to sleep. I wake up. I launch XboxLive for WP7 and receive this problem. I have not downloaded, purchased, installed etc any apps, games, services from Zune/XBL MarketPlace. I have not changed my WLID login/password.
Can anybody please advise a reason, and solution? (thanks in advance)
.reboot
Ladies and gentlemen, gamers and g33k5, you may already have spotted the change, but over the next few weeks, there will be significant updates to this blog.
The first few changes have already been made:
- my gamertag is now Mr Loxy
- my twitter account is now @MrLoxy
…and there’s a rumour circling that a certain gaming team may be rising from the ashes…
:: paused ::
It has been a long while since I posted a new blog note.
The last time I wrote here was in October 2010. A lot has happened since then. A lot has been happening since September, really.
You will be able to read all about it, soon enough though.
For now, I would like you to all know, that I’m still here…just…and I’m still tweeting from @MrLoxy!
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 13 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 76 posts. There were 3 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 1mb.
The busiest day of the year was April 28th with 56 views. The most popular post that day was #EurogamerExpo 2010 : Tickets.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, facebook.com, iconfactory.com, theusualsuspex.com, and iloxy.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for eurogamer logo, sean_henderson@hotmail.co.uk, eurogamer, iphone vs desire, and iloxy.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
#EurogamerExpo 2010 : Tickets April 2010
Quietly Brilliant : iPhone vs Desire June 2010
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Rambling Prose March 2010
iLoxy : about me August 2009
#EurogamerExpo 2009 : anticipation October 2009
