Today, after numerous delays of such, we can officially say that XboxPolis.com has gone mobile. The mobile site is redirected to you from any use of a mobile device, such as Windows Phone, Blackberry, iPhone, iPod touch, Palm, Droid- or whatever phone. When on a laptop or desktop, of course, our full site will load.
You may notice the similar look of the mobile site to the actual site. We dig that too.
There are a few bugs on the mobile site, and we’re trying our hardest to work on them. If you find any bugs, tweet us @xboxpolis.
Known Issues:
- Unable to go to the regular site (like having the option to go to the mobile site or the full site) on your mobile device: This has something to do with the template we use, but we’re looking for a fix. Although, you won’t see a fix soon for this certain issue.
- Photo Resizing on articles and other pages: Photo sizes, although intentionally shrunk for mobile adaption, you will see the photos sometimes compress close to each other. We’re looking for a fix.
- Page sizes: Some page sizes are too big for mobile phones. Whether it is the text’s fault (which depends on your device) or a big image or a large javascript/flash object, this problem will be reoccurring. Like the others, we’re working on a fix.
The Awesome Part about this:
- Faster Loading = Lower bills, more battery: The faster we load the site, the lower your bill is (depending on your phone plan) and the more battery you have to waste on something else. And faster loading is badass anyway.
- Easy Commenting: The DISQUS commenting system we use has mobile adaption, making it easier for you to comment on our articles with your opinion.
- iPhone / iPod Touch icon for home screens: There’s an icon for everything. 
- Quick Links: Provided at the bottom of every page on the mobile site, you can get to our Community, News page, Reviews page, top of the page, Twitter profile, Facebook profile, and more.
- Community: Although the community site looks and feels downgraded, it is a much faster and simpler experience navigating around the Community.
So basically, we did something good for a very inactive site. We love our site XboxPolis. As should you. In the future, we’ll [hopefully] be releasing applications instead of having to use the browser on your mobile device. Our first hope is the Windows Phone 7. Mmmmm….
on a mobile device? visit the new mobile site now!
Location: Florida. Internet. Wetpaint.
Time: Midnight ; September 10, 2008.
Level of Intelligence: Low.
Well, hello there odd looking stranger. It seems you have stumbled onto our blog post, in which we’ll be telling you crap that could* be wasting your time. Here it is, our post regarding our 2nd Anniversary, or birthday.
Shit just got real.
We are posting this due to a bug we’ve found in the Twitter Application on the XboxPolis Community. The app lets a predetermined amount of tweets show up on your profile, along with the option to post updates from XboxPolis to your Twitter feed. But, recently, Twitter changed their authorization process, to where third-party applications (like our Twitter app) must use Twitter’s “OAuth”, which is basically an authorization process to make your account more secure.
The Twitter Application on the XboxPolis.com Community is a third-party application, in other words, developed by somebody else. We have no control over this, but we are looking into ways of fixing it, by ourselves, and by searching for alternatives.
For now, the Twitter app will likely not appear correct, so don’t start killing things. We’re working on it.
Pictured: The current way that Twitter uses connections through third-party organizations and developers. When we fix this problem, you will no longer have the feeling of that ‘we haz your password!1!!’.
We guarantee you we have no access to your password, and even if we do, we don’t know how to get there anyway. We’re not devs, we’re regular people. OAuth allows you to escape that feeling, anyway, to where you can stop using Twitter on XboxPolis by going into your ‘Settings’ page on Twitter, and ‘Revoke Access’ for XboxPolis to tweet your status, which can always be changed back.
-XboxPolis.com
Hello there, once again USKB, the faithful owner of XboxPolis.com. Since I suck at bringing Weekly Updates, even during summer, I figured a snazzy title and some annoyingly sweet puns could get me through. Agreed? Good.
Like Tying A Knot, of death.
So, we’ve been spamming our Twitter here lately, not with hopes to gain followers or to get blocked, but to make people come to us. The spamming you may have seen on Twitter is the fuss about us giving away around 15 Medal of Honor beta keys. The game, is Electronic Arts’ newest, uh, reboot shooter, with some sweet, different engine-using DICE multiplayer. We obtained these keys through the constant use of making new email accounts on our host, then constantly pressing ‘F5’ on BestBuy.com to type in the newly-made email account, then receiving the codes via email EA. The keys, sitting pretty in a draft in my personal email account, are waiting for those poor, poor Twitter users who signed up with us. With the, like what, five people that actually signed up, we want to at least get like 10 people so we can get this sh*t done. We’ll be releasing- hopefully- two codes daily, again, pending on how many people we get- and if we need to, we’ll give them to every one of you Twitter users. And I think its safe to say we can delay our release of the codes anyway- BECAUSE THE XBOX 360 VERSION OF THE BETA HAS YET TO COME OUT. Put a #fail tag on that one Twitter-erers.
For those wanting access to the beta, find out how you could get it from us.
Nuff bout codes.
‘Nuff said indeed, P-Diddy. So, we give you the news on us. Not developers or games, no no. Okay, maybe a bit.
We’re so hardcore, we’ll be doing some nice coverage of Comic-Con like we did with E3. Except smaller, less tiring, and because Halo: Reach told us to ‘go past the canyon at Comic-Con 2010.’ And we listen to Bungie. The coverage starts whenever Comic-Con starts- I haven’t checked, and nor do I plan to check. It’s this month, I think.
And we also like to say hi to GreenEyeBob. I gave him a beta key before you Twitter-erers. Hi GreenEyeBob.
And as you may notice, the site looks sexy. From our past Wetpaint, to our next weird-kid version that I dubbed back in late ‘08, I think it’s safe to say that we’ll be keeping our casual template around for a good while, changing the background though, to keep it fresh. We did that with Red Dead for like two days, Halo: Reach for like a month, and we have the current ‘tests’, dare I call them ‘tests’, that use the Xbox 360 rainbow thing they unveiled at E3. It’s on the jobs page.
And Speaking of Jobs…
Yes, the good ‘ol non-paying job in a crappy-ass economy seems to be all the rage these days, so we’re going with the flow of the modern day era, hence the somewhat-late announcement of our “Jobs” page. Found conveniently at XboxPolis.com/Jobs, you can look at what we’re looking for. But you can’t apply. Yet. We’re still in the process of editing and creating applications, as we would love to seperate the three current jobs listings. Sounds only right.
The Three Current Job Listings Are:
“Good luck finding a developer” -you.
We know. It’ll be impossible.
And Here’s a Flashback
Xbox LIVE Game Servers Are Down
Anyway, we’re out. Sorry about the odd spacing in this post. My spacebar is off teh hook today. #realofficialbusiness
-USKB, messiah, creator/owner of XboxPolis.com.
That’s right- it’s back.
The return of the Weekly Update is finally here, where we give you the scoop on some pretty sweet stuff. Here is that pretty sweet stuff. Except Friday seems like a better day- BUT we were supposed to publish this April 23rd, 2010- so…now.
Facebook Stuff.
Apparently there’s this called “Facebook,” it’s part of this “Social Networking” thing online- it’s pretty weird. You share stuff, give out your info, sometimes your address, get requests from people you’ve never met, and you can play these things called “apps”- people are addicted to this “FarmVille” app- it’s literally sad. Seriously though, we do Facebook ourselves.
We now have some new features for Facebook at XboxPolis.com, including a new “Like” button at the bottom of an article (above comments though), where you can just click “Like” and you completely win. Once that precious button is pressed, the magic of crappy coding brings us to the unbelievable belief that our status says “… Liked: Halo 3, Saints Row, NFS: Carbon, & Sonic the Hedgehog Available For Games On Demand.” I mean, that’s pretty BA. Anyway, you can find that at the newest articles, old articles will be absent from the new button. As always, by hovering (or clicking, sometimes the hovering code is deleted and we never know it) over the AddThis button, you can add to over hundreds of Social Networking sites, such as Twitter, MySpace, Facebook (as a link, not a “Like”), Digg, N4G, Delicious and more. You can also log into XboxPolis.com using your Facebook account by clicking the “Login With Facebook” button on the Community page or Homepage (Homepage just redirects to Community page). From there, a pop-up window will ask for your Email/Password (or if you’re signed in, the window will disappear, and a window will appear within the XboxPolis.com page).
Have Fun.
Look, A Staff Member. Praise the lord.
Yes, in case you haven’t noticed, we have a newbie. Greeneyebob, some guy I knew thanks to Twitter is now writing for us, and you can tell, he’s got a few articles up. Staff Members at XboxPolis.com have varied to come by and leave, but we’re still looking for writers today. You can fill out the application to become a staff member at XboxPolis.com (as a Writer, Reviewer, etc.). You can keep up with our newest staff member, Greeneyebob via Twitter, as well too.
Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta.
Cue the Marty music and start the celebration, the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta will be available for purchasers of Halo 3: ODST beginning May 3rd, 2010, already started for those who know dates. This game literally beasts our lives, and we hope you get to try it out. I mean- imagine Halo 3 + Halo 2 + ODST + Halo: CE= Big Boom= Reach. As always, you can check out our exclusive coverage page for Halo: Reach at XboxPolis.
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Dear black people- don’t be offended! Call of Duty: Black Ops, or Call of Duty 7 (wait, am I right?), from Treyarch will be releasing November 9th, 2010 (11-09-10, similar to CoD: Modern Warfare 2’s date, 11-10-09). The trailer is odd, but it seems the CoD series is backing out of the WWII era, and moving onto the pretty Cold War, Vietnam War Late 50’s-Early 70’s. Trailer seems to show some pretty cool technology, so, take a look. But Halo: Reach is another offering, Less Than Three.
MRTY
My Clan Tag for Halo: Reach. Don’t copy; Love Marty.
-USKB, H2o DAG, Derek Gordon. Seemingly proud owner of XboxPolis.com.
Just a heads up that we redesigned the Halo: Reach coverage page. Looks better to us.
From our exclusive coverage of Halo: Reach, you can enjoy photos, videos, news, and more. So go there. http://www.xboxpolis.com/reach (or you can also visit the coverage provider, which is us. http://www.xboxpolis.com/)
“After” is on the left, “Before” is on the right. In case you can’t figure that out.
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Yes, the day of reckoning has come. I’ve been hit so hard by the crappy U.S. economy, that I’ve forced myself to start an advertising program on XboxPolis.com.
The ads you may see are an image ad, or maybe a flash ad. We’re going to be using AdBrite, mainly because we’re such a small site. We plan not to post those crappy “Get Skinny in 3 Weeks” ads- we want decently good ads. We like Flash ads, a lot. But, at first, ads like this may appear, but only for the first month or two- maybe less. We were going to go with VideoEgg- but yeah. We’re the ones who don’t have the moolah.
Even if we earn $10 a month, we’ll be satisfied. We’re sad that we have to do this, but hey. Why not?
These are our planned spots for the advertisements. We may do it at the bottom too, but it would be easier this way. By the way, the little one on the right would be an advertisement for something we like, similar to that ad for the Bungie and Haiti fund. We will also do our own stuff there too.
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