   Is this possible?
  Halo, To be honest I don''t know anything about game programming. My friend and I both play pc games and console games (playstation and xbox).  We want to know if this is technically possible and/or in someway can this be developed.  We want to develop a website to houses our game stats and winnings in real time for our friends and family so we can rank each other. For example if I''m playing crimson skies on the Xbox online and he is too, can software or hardware be developed so the gaming information is "intercepted" to our website in real time stating who won the game and logging the results on our website?? And if its possible can it work with all gaming platforms Xbox, playstation, and pc games? Thanks, Panda 
  Anything is possible.  One problem is that you don't have access to development tools for the consoles, so that will make it more difficult.  The other, bigger, problem is the "interception" of data.  There is no way you can create a tool that will just "know" which bits of data are the scores, total winnings, whatever else you want to track for any given game.  Each program is different and stores its data in different places in memory.  You could probably easily do this for one game on a PC.  With enough time you could use a debugger to figure out where to snarf the scores from a game and then update a website with the info.  It's the making it work for all games on all platforms situation that is going to trip you up.   [edited by - CodeMunkie on February 5, 2004 10:13:27 AM];  Intercepting packets and using packets from XBL pose a next to impossible task, due to the amount of security in the XBL service. Take a look at http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/default.htm , it appears that you can login here with a .net passport and link your gamertag to the passport account. Although I dont have a XBL account and cant check to see for myself, it says "Friends & Scoreboards" so that could be your best option for getting stats.My rough plan based on the info I have here would be, develop a client for the members of your site to query the xbox.com servers for there stats every x amount of time, then have the client post stats to a script running on your website. For PC games it would be easy for most games to get the stats if its your server, most PC game servers have a easy way to get stats but this varies game to game.I dont know much about PS2 online gaming so I cant help you there.  