Xbox 360 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Minecraft's mobile version outsold others by volume in 2012

by Mike Schramm (Jan 16th, 2013)

Minecraft creators Mojang have released stats on how the game's various platform clients (Windows/Mac, Xbox 360 and of course iOS and Android) have been selling, and the numbers have a surprise. The mobile version is outselling everything else by volume. As you can see above, Christmas sales ...

Xbox SmartGlass app turns your iOS device into a remote control

by Mike Wehner (Nov 12th, 2012)

If you have an Xbox 360 and an iOS device, congratulations, Microsoft has offered you a free touchscreen remote control! Well, not literally, but the new Xbox SmartGlass app turns your iPad or iPhone into a do-it-all control center for your game console, and it's actually a pretty slick ...

Use the Xbox 360 controller on your Mac

by Mike Schramm (Sep 13th, 2012)

TUAW reader Jon emailed in the other day to ask about possible game controllers for Mac, and while we've covered this issue before, it has definitely been a while. In short, the best way to use a game controller with your Mac is just to use one of the better controllers out there: the wired ...

Infinity Blade looks great on a 50" HDTV via iPad 2

by Dana Franklin (Mar 16th, 2011)

The new iPad 2 paired with Apple's Digital AV Adapter is perfect for watching movies with your family, teaching lessons to a classroom or presenting the latest sales figures to a boardroom on an HDTV. TouchGen found it's also an awesome new way to enjoy your favorite iPad games, like Real Racing 2 ...

Ask TUAW: MacBook Pro cleaning, Mac maintenance, streaming video and more

by Chris Ullrich (Dec 10th, 2010)

Welcome back to another edition of our weekly Q & A column, Ask TUAW. Each week this column will appear with questions and answers. If you have questions for the following week's column, drop them in the comments, and I will do my best to get to them. When asking a question, please include ...

Angry Birds hits 10 million iPhone downloads, coming to gaming consoles

by Mike Schramm (Nov 24th, 2010)

Angry Birds creator Rovio has announced that the game has fetched a whopping 36 million downloads so far, including ten million paid downloads on the iOS platform alone. Those are some pretty incredible numbers -- there's no question at all that Angry Birds is as legendary an app on the iPhone as ...

Five reasons why Apple TV is still just a hobby

by Chris Rawson (Oct 8th, 2010)

I'm pretty far from being a Luddite, but I've never understood the point of the Apple TV. Even after its update to the newest version, I still don't get why this product exists. Erica posted the reasons she and other members of the TUAW team feel the Apple TV is every bit as revolutionary as any ...

GTA tops the list, and other game news

by Mike Schramm (Jan 20th, 2010)

For some reason there's a flood of gaming news coming from the App Store this afternoon. So we've rounded it up for you to take in all in one read: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars [iTunes link] has reached the top-grossing spot on the store in just two days, which means it's probably taken over ...

Xbox Live app for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 1st, 2009)

360 Live [App Store link] certainly isn't the first Xbox 360 app to hit the iPhone, but it's definitely one of the most full-featured, offering gamertag management, complete friends list access, messaging capability, games library browsing (with achievements and all), and even a CoverFlow-style ...

Rivet media sharing for Xbox 360

by Mat Lu (Apr 21st, 2008)

Mac users who have wanted to share audio, video, and pictures with their Xbox 360s have had to depend on Connect360 from Nullriver Software. Now, however, there's a new option: Rivet from Cynical Peak Software. Frankly, it does about the same thing as Connect360, running in your menu bar and ...

Stream audio, video, and pictures from your Mac to a PS3

by Mat Lu (Aug 1st, 2007)

As the resident Xbox 360 fanboy I had reservations about touching this one, but my Mac love triumphs over all and so I bring you news of a cool tutorial on streaming media from your Mac to a PS3. This method is basically built around the MediaTomb open-source UPnP media server. The tricky part is ...

Connect360 updated with H.264 support

by Mat Lu (May 14th, 2007)

A while back in our TUAW Guide to Xbox 360 and Mac we mentioned the forthcoming Spring Dashboard update on the 360 was to bring updated video codec support. Well that update dropped last week and Nullriver has correspondingly updated their Connect360 software (which we've mentioned before) that ...

Ask TUAW: Printing Finder window contents, CornerClick, a Finder hotkey, editing AVIs and more

by Mat Lu (May 2nd, 2007)

This week's Ask TUAW takes us into questions about printing Finder window contents, assigning programs to the corner of your screen, bringing up the Finder with a HotKey, integrating Apple productivity programs, recording TV on your Mac and editing AVIs . Remember new Mac users and Switchers who are ...

Use Xbox 360 Guitar Hero Controller with Frets on Fire

by Mat Lu (Apr 22nd, 2007)

A while back we posted on the cool open source Guitar Hero clone, Frets on Fire. Well I'm a pretty big Xbox 360 fan, and one of my favorite games on the 360 is the recently released Guitar Hero II, which ships with a USB X-plorer guitar-shaped controller. So of course the first thing I did when I ...

TUAW Guide: Xbox 360 and Mac

by Mat Lu (Apr 16th, 2007)

In many of the recent reviews of the Apple TV, the Xbox 360 was often mentioned as a competing Media Extender product. Having recently bought a 360, I thought it would be good to discover the ways in which my two pretty white boxes can work together. In this TUAW Guide to Xbox 360 and the Mac, I'm ...