Here a few Reasons Why The 360 Will Kick Butt In 2009

The Xbox 360 has done considerable well through-out 2008, and ended with a bang with Gears of War 2. Microsoft, and its team look to be set for 2009, and what it has to offer, and could very well give other consoles a run for their money this coming year. Below we have five reasons [...]

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Microsoft’s Answer To Blu-Ray Is DMD

Whether you call it downloadable content, game add-ons or digital media distribution, the new wave of accessing information for console games is drastically evolving thanks to die-hard efforts of Microsoft and Sony. The industry is continually finding ways to break out of the reliance of hard-copied media formats. And even though both Microsoft and [...]

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Square Enix/Tri-Ace releases Star Ocean 4 Japanese Box Art/New Screens!

“Square Enix and tri-Ace have released the official Japanese box art for Star Ocean: The Last Hope for the Xbox 360. Oddly, it does not have the “Only on Xbox 360″ stamp on it as usual Xbox 360 exclusives do. Along with the box art, they’ve released a few brand new stunning screenshots. Hit the [...]

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Sony’s PS3 A Sinking Ship: Sales Plummet again!

The news just gets worse for Playstation 3.
Alone among the three major videogame consoles, sales of the PS3 are down about 19% from November 2007, according to the latest stats from the NPD Group. Sony was only able to sell 378,000 PS3s this November, compared to 466,000 last year.
And the problem for Sony isn’t the [...]

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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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Red Ring of Death issues finaly adressed with Jasper-based Xbox 360 consoles

The long-awaited Jasper-based versions of the Xbox 360 have finally emerged on the market. These new consoles have a redesigned motherboard with the new 65-nanometer version of the ATI (now AMD) graphics chip that doesn’t run as hot as previous versions. There are other changes that improve the reliability and usability of the system [...]

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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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Xbox Live experiencing instability over the weekend

Users are reporting connection issues with their Xbox Live accounts. Apparently the accounts are being disconnected from the network. Microsoft has confirmed that there is an issue with Xbox Live at the moment. One would expect that Microsoft would have learned its lesson from last year’s spotty connection issues.

According to Major Nelson, the Xbox [...]

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