Shoppers Fight At Wal-Mart

Thought I’d try and grace everyone with some good old “Holiday Spirit” with this touching holiday moment. Enjoy!
In the early morning rush at a Wal-Mart on Black Friday, customers fight over the last X-Box 360 console.”

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Burnout Paradise: Welcome to Big Surf Island

Criterion hasn’t released anything new on this awesome, (Now premium downloadable content) since way back in May, so it’s high time They gave you a little update.

This first shot shows your arrival point on the island.  From here, you can make out the awesome cylindrical tower referred to in this Crash TV Episode 15.  With [...]

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7 million units sold, the 360 is once again….Big In Japan!

Japan – In the same week that the Wii has crossed 7 million units sold, the 360 (long since written off in Japan by sales enthusiasts, and correctly, I might add) is once again playing as a potential spoiler against Sony’s PS3.

One look at the Weekly Console Sales Chart (line, 2nd chart down) will show [...]

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The Skinny: Everything we know about Halo 3 Recon

Halo 3: Recon could be one of the first games out of Microsoft that will be sold in retail and online at the same time. Planned also is the release of RockStar’s (anticipated) DLC for GTAIV.

Halo 3 Recon goes open-world
The first details on Bungie’s ambitious Halo 3 expansion Recon have finally emerged, detailing new equipment, [...]

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NXE: The Good, The Bad, and the ugly!

THE GOOD
Netflix: The biggest feature added onto the massive NXE update other than Avatars and the new look would have to be Netflix. Microsoft and Netflix are pushing this pretty hard, with Netflix prominently advertising it on their site and Microsoft advertising it on packaging of new Xbox 360 units and Xbox Live cards.
Every person [...]

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New Xbox Experience (NXE) Found At Best Buy!

It seems that at least one Best Buy is previewing the NXE in their stores as evident in the pictures below.
Now I don’t recall seeing the NXE in my Best Buy’s so maybe this is a special preview deal or maybe some employee decided to hook up their Xbox 360’s with the unauthorized NXE update, [...]

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Happy Halloween From the Technook!

On behalf of myself and the entire crew (two other ppl lol…) we would like to wish everyone a very happy and safe Halloween!  If you want to send your friends or family a nice Halloween greeting card you can do so at  this link.
We love all of our readers so we want to remind [...]

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New FFXIII Details Announced

multiplatform release will happen next year
Chris Winkler writes “Square Enix offered some new tidbits about Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII in this week’s issue of Weekly Famitsu. The male character seen in the various trailers of Final Fantasy XIII is called Snow Villiers. Character designer Tetsuya Nomura commented that the [...]

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1UP: Dead Space Review

It’s clear that Dead Space wants to be scary. It has the right trappings, from the lost-on-a-spaceship concept to the limited health and ammo pickups, the audio and video logs you find (which feature allies screaming at you), and the blood-splattered environments and occasional disgusting enemies. But it seems like — in a few [...]

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MS finds reason for Asia 360 shortage…

Death of 21,600 Xbox 360s in train derailment

Microsoft is suing cargo hauler DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox 360s in a train derailment.
The platform holder is seeking over $2 million in damages from DHL, claiming that the Xbox 360s sustained “impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage” after the derailment in Texas, USA. [...]

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