Friday, September 05, 2008 2:12 PM
by
CPaladino
Xbox on the iPhone
Richard over at X3F posted that there is a special version of Xbox 360 Fanboy that is formatted special for the iPhone. Hopefully Destructoid, Kotaku, Ars Technica, Joystiq, and every other site I read follow suit. *hint hint*
At PAX this past weekend, I saw Knuckles Dawson who had his iPhone skinned in the Xbox circles for a mere $7.
As a recent sell-out hipster who took the plunge this past weekend, I wanted to point out a few of the ways I stay connected to my Xbox, my friends list, my gaming on the iPhone.
Applications I Dig (non-games)
- 1337pwn - Nelson mentioned this app several months ago. It allows you to add your XBL friends and keep tabs on things like how close you are to over-taking Tony in gamerscore. (AppStore)
- Twinkle - My preferred Twitter app for the iPhone (AppStore)
- Facebook - We all know what this is
- Dice Bag - Not the same as throwing down a d20 to attack, but I don't have time to play D&D anyway
- Sportacular - I got stats as my NY Giants whooping the Redskins last night (AppStore)
- Jott - Speak your thought, have it sent back to you, can even post to Twitter vocally! (AppStore)
- Whrrl - See what places (restaurants, parks, stores) your friend like and hate
- QuickPoints - Having gone from 270 to 210 using Weight Watchers, this is an easy point calculator (AppStore)
- iLightr - I use this in my Guitar Hero and Rock Band sessions (AppStore)
- Shazam - Using this app, I found out that the Crackdown Achievement video soundtrack was Sequenced Lives by Neon Cage Experiment off of the Interbreeding VIII CD. (AppStore)
Home Screen Bookmarked Websites
- Xbox - Mobile version of Xbox.com that will start to feature content created by a certain community team you may know
- Joystiq - iPhone formatted version of Joystiq (thanks Shafnitz for pointing out)
- gReader - I have over 100 gaming news feeds, and now I can keep up on them everywhere I go
- Flickr - I can keep tabs on the photos that Diva takes at all our events
- Metacritic - So I can stand in line for dinner and yell "Shadowrun and Too Human scored 66? Metacritic be damned! Everyone is crazy but me!"