I have been looking for a little while now about the best way to capture gaming footage of some of my clan and I's antics and the odd game review from an older gamers perspective.  Having done a bit of research online I found a couple of products that might of done the trick but living in NZ they were not available.
I contacted Mighty Ape, my favourite on line store for anything gaming to see if they had anything suitable, Ben (one of the friendly apes!!) came back to me very quickly to say they were bringing a product into the country called Roxio Game Capture.  Within no time at all they had uploaded it to their on line store and it was in my "wishlist" waiting for it to arrive.  About a week later I got the email I was waiting for, the price was good ($189.00NZ), it was ordered and delivered within 2 days.  
The Roxio Game Capture product came with the leads needed, a disc to load the software and some simple installation instructions, within 15minutes it was set up and recording!! 
The video below was my first (second actually, the first had the wrong settings applied to it which caused problems with the frame position!!) attempt at putting something together.  I thought I'd send a message to half of me clan, the Gonks, who have recently become a little disfunctional because half the camp went to BF3 and the other went to MW3, this was my attempt at getting them to come across to BF3.

Coming up soon will be some postings of more typical game play from CrazySlow Ninja, namely some classic fails!!  

Watch this space.

I have just had the pleasure of trying out Turtle Beach Ear Force X31 gaming headset for the Xbox 360.  

OMG!!  Why I have never heard of these before a week ago, I don't know, it has to be one of the gaming industries best kept secret, this equipment is awesome.

Incredibly easy to set up, plug a transmitting device into the USB slot of the Xbox 360 and an audio lead into the red & white jacks in the back of the TV, batteries into the headset and once you synchronise them, you are away!! 

The headset has three settings, the first turns the bass on ....... nice!!  that difference alone makes an impact.  The next setting turns the bass off and the stereo expander on, this adds a different dimension to the sound, it takes it away from your ears and has such a detailed sound that it really does sound as if you are in the thick of it.  The third setting combines the bass and the stereo expander, at this poiint you will be in sound heaven.
I tried it on Mass Effect 2 first of all, I have been through this game a couple of times, but I had not realised what I was missing until I put this headset on, the sound was mind blowing, it really is quite surreal listening to your team members footsteps as you travel through a mission, you can even tell which direction they are coming from without turning round to watch them.
The second game I tried was Black Ops on line multiplayer, the advantage it gave me by actually hearing the enemy walking or running near my position was awesome, several times during the games I played I got kills where I probably would never have got in the past.
The whole gaming experience was enhanced purely on the quality of the sound, these words just don't do the experience justice, all I can say is go and get a set and try them, I guarantee you will not be dissapointed.   If you are a NZ gamer, check out Mighty Ape, at the time of publishing this blog, they have a promotion on these headsets