My postal code is definitely valid. I’ve tried entering it every way imaginable and it just won’t work. ARGH!

UPDATE!

Apparently the solution to many problems is to simply bitch about it on the internet (to the right people at least). A couple hours after writing this post and twittering it to Major Nelson, I got a call from someone at Microsoft explaining that the problem is that I likely had United States selected instead of Canada. I hadn’t even noticed before that I was logged into the US site. It’s not even a matter of logging into a separate Canadian site, but selecting Canada from the list after clicking on International. I feel a little silly for not figuring that out myself, but I’m sure I’m not alone.

So if you’re in Canada and you can’t udpate your xbox live information due to an “Invalid Postal Code” error, this is how to fix it!

Click on International

Choose your Country

Voila! It’s done.

It’s also worth mentioning that you should update your bookmarks otherwise when you reload from a bookmark it will be back to the US site.

Wireless mouse is the in thing in our store and the wife would love one of this when it comes out in August by Microsoft. The Mobile mouse 6000 was recently released in conjunction with a similar 5000 model. Both use BlueTrack and are comfortably sized without being too bulky to cart around. The 6000 features Microsoft’s first nano transceiver, which extends only 0.8 centimeters from the computer’s USB and stores handily inside the mouse itself. But the Mobile mouse 4000 is quite similar but comes in 5 colors and is powered by a single AA-battery for 10 months, the 2.4GHz wireless ensures connection up to 15-feet. I better do more Clinicallix reviews, so that i can buy one for the wife when it comes out.

I’ve managed to find all 4 minion types and progressed through several missions including the slaughter of the half elf half tree Oberon. I found another mistress but decided to keep the one I had, and then blew all my money to fancy of the tower of evil to her liking. I applied for some sales manager jobs in the hopes that my control of an army of evil minions would be enough proof that I can manage a crew of employees. I seem to have run off on a tangent here..

Anyway, back to the Understreets, I need to find my upgraded forge so I can replace this steel armor, it’s getting rusty.

So while my wife shops around online for wholesale handbags, I rape & pillage the neighbours for their food, wood and precious stones. It’s all in good fun. Today someone sent one of their alliance members after me in retaliation for hitting one of their unprotected but rich towns. His little army was decimated by the raw power of my archer towers. whee.

So far I’ve been building and building and building since all new players are under 7 day protection from attacks. Once that 7 days is up I’ll find out how much fun the game still is, I just hope I can get a big enough army by then to save my ass from annihilation. There’s a good bunch of “quests” to follow which keep you cruising quite well as far as resources to. Pay 10k gold to build something and chances are you’ll get a quest reward for 10k gold or more just for building that something. It helps your first city to grow really fast.

The game world is persistent, which so far is a good thing. I go to bed at night and when I get up in he morning I have a crapload of resources which I can use to get started on new buildings and upgrades. The downside to this is that once the 7 day protection is over, I could wake up in the morning to find myself wiped out. I don’t know how the combat part is handled yet, and whether or not you can lose your city or just your soldiers. I’ll be finding that out in a few days too.

So far it’s fun and if I keep playing beyond the weekend I’ll post another update with my ‘progress’.

As with most RPG’s on the 360 though, if I want to get all the gamer score points I’d have to play through it a couple more times in order to find all the hidden stuff. Score pieces in a barrel here, Liporexall behind a rock over there, and so on. But with over a dozen unplayed games waiting on the shelf I think I’ll just finish it once and move on to something else. Probably Mass Effect next, that’s been sitting there the longest.

Then I came across Gemcraft on Kongregate (the game itself is by Armor Games) and played that quite a bit for a few days. It was pretty easy after gaining a few levels though and I figure it was only about a week until I had beaten all the secret levels and finally the big boss at the end of the game. I thought I’d be able to get back to the 360 for a while after that but noooo. I just had to go check out Armor Games and sure enough, there’s a sequel to Gemcraft out now. So I gave it a shot.

It’s a lot harder than the first one. I find myself struggling at times even on these earlier levels. The play mechanics are similar but with a lot of changes/additions. It’s more about strategy than brute force, in some levels I felt I was throwing everything but the bathroom sink at those little monsters and I lose every time. It’s frustrating sometimes but I still feel compelled to try again and again.

Looks like these guys were trading in a bunch of PS2 and original XBox games, and after the clerk was done punching them up in the computer and told them straight-faced, “After the refurb charges I can give you 8 bucks for this stuff”. Needless to say they were a little upset when they were told the wireless guitar was only worth $3 and their dozen games were worth $5. They didn’t create a big fuss though, just collected their stuff and left.

$8 for 12 games and a guitar. $8 store credit, not even cash! I could make that much in 5 minutes writing slimming pills reviews! Don’t waste your time bringing old stuff to Game Stop or EB Games, they offer horribly low amounts for it. You could get much more at the smaller mom & pop stores, or selling it on eBay yourself.