Erik Porter's Blog

I don't know how many of you have played Viva Pinata yet, but my wife and I absolutely love it.  It may be kid oriented, but this kid hasn't played anything so entertaining since the first Halo game came out.  Gears of War is a great game, but even it can't keep me away from playing Viva…

That IS the question at the Blog Business Summit.  Ok, they're talking about a lot of other things there too, but that one seems very interesting to me.HD is something we've been talking about for quite a while, but haven't been working on it aggressively for some of the reasons mentioned in…

Yesterday, Laura and I headed over with a video camera and smartphones armed and loaded.  Lego was coming in to show off their new robot the Lego Mindstorm NXT.  I've been getting into some robot building of my own lately (I'm still an extreme beginner) and had seen some buzz around the…

So finally we posted up the Meet the 10 Team video, so I can finally put up the behind the scenes photos for that shoot.http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikporter/sets/72157594188704780/Enjoy!

You've probably already seen Major Nelson go through the upcoming XBox 360 dashboard update, but here are some behind the scenes photos taken before the shoot for anyone interested.  My amateurish photography still needs some work, but hopefully there are still some neat things for you to…

The new 10 shirts are in!  "How do I get one?", you say?!?!  Right now we give them to people who make appearances on the show or win one of our contests.  You can also score a shirt if you see us at a conference!We have other styles of the shirt, but decided two…

Busted!  I found a video on the xbox website of Laura and Tina hanging out with Major Nelson at E3.Check it out here or all the E3 videos here.

This was actually my first attempt at taking some photos at Microsoft Studios.  I used the camera we acquired in this video.  Unfortunately, I was trying to not use the flash and most of the shots came out blurry, but some were salvageable.  These were taken for the video that is…

Today I had the opportunity to go down to Microsoft Studios where 10 is shot and edited. Laura, Tina and the crew were doing their thing shooting next weeks videos and let me hang out for a while.  I brought along my camera and got you all some behind the scenes shots. Enjoy!…

Today we added a minor feature to the tagging feature in 10. We integrated a few of the major tagging sites out there. If you now click on a tag, for example "XBox", you will see the list of entries on the site tagged as XBox, but now at the top you'll see a More section. We currently link…