Post Tagged with: "360"

My Xbox 360 Has Become Abusive

I know that when my 360 hits me it’s only because I provoked it. These stories are getting a bit stale, aren’t they?  Not stale enough, apparently, or maybe it’s just not important for Microsoft to fix their shit.  You see, my latest Xbox 360 is dead.  I purchased a new Arcade version in January [...]

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Team Fortress 2 Updates Coming For 360 This Year, Won’t Be Free

It’s kind of hard to argue with the popular belief that the console versions of TF2 are massively inferior to the PC one. They don’t have 32 player matches, they’ve got awful controls, there’s barely any community to speak of, it used to be obscenely laggy, and they’ve never gotten any of the cool (and [...]

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360 Controller Gets Redesign, New D-pad Ready For Hardcore Street Fighter IV Action

I’ve been playing Bionic Commando Rearmed on the 360, and let me tell you, even with the relatively superior (emphasis on relatively) d-pad on the wired controller, it is a serious pain: when I crouch I get spun around, when I want to fire my grappling hook diagonally it fires forward – we all remember [...]

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Need Cash? Ebay Your 360 Achievements and Gamer Points

For dedicated achievement whores who are strapped for cash but don’t want to sell their entire game collection, there’s a new option-– sell the time you spend playing them.

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Even PS3 Owners Rate Xbox Live Best

In a recent opinion poll, 74.7% of the PlayStation 3 owners surveyed considered Xbox Live to be the online service with the best feature set when compared to PlayStation Network and WiiConnect24.  In addition, 71.4% of the people that actually own an Xbox 360 feel as though Xbox Live is worth the subscription fee.

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New 360 Dashboard Update is Entirely Optional

Major Nelson let loose on his latest podcast that the upcoming Dashboard update for the Xbox 360 will be entirely optional.  Well, you’ll most likely still have to download it, but you can continue to use the old blades system and even forgo the new Miis Avatars and stick with your Gamerpic.  Oh, and you [...]

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Xbox 360 Review: System Error – E 74

After moving houses just a few short days ago, and with no internet to speak of, I was settling down to a nice relaxing week away from the daily buzz of the net to get some quality time with Beijing 2008, which Sega kindly sent me to review. However, it appears Microsoft had other plans. [...]

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360 Passes The 5 Million Mark in Europe, Continent Divided

I know I forgot to colour in Estonia and Greece. You get the idea. The Xbox 360 has now passed the landmark sales figure of 5 million units sold across Europe, a figure reached by the PS3 nearly 2 months ago. Regardless, Microsoft insist they are ahead in sales.

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Rumor: Xbox 360 Pro to drop $50?

With just a few short weeks until E3 ’08, it looks like Microsoft has another trick up its sleeve.  Spurred from a few snapped photos of a K-Mart add for July 6th, it would appear that Microsoft is planning on dropping the Xbox 360 Pro Bundle from $349.99 to $299.99.

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Leer At This Incredibly Awesome 360 Elite Custom Paint Job

Hand painted by Maritza Torres, this Xbox 360 Elite has possibly the coolest paint job I’ve seen in a long while.

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Limited Edition GTA IV Xbox Tightens Trousers

With the hype beginning to build for GTA IV’s release this summer, Microsoft decided to ramp it up another notch by giving out 500 free GTA IV branded Xbox 360s.

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Prey 2 Officially Announced

As the not-very-ambiguous headline hints we’ve been told that the embargo has lifted and we know bring you the official confirmation of Prey 2 and its existence, this is as official as it gets, kids. Hit the break for more info and high-res concept art.

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The NY Times Says Xbox 360 is Powered by Cell Processor

It’s like your Grandmother trying to talk about the Pussycat Dolls. How many gaming facts can you get wrong in one article? The New York Times says five. Five relatively well known gaming facts were right muddled up governor! The New York Times needed to get things straight, and it took them a week to [...]

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Official Grand Theft Auto IV Box Art Revealed – Next Trailer Dated

Rockstar revealed the official box art for Grand Theft Auto IV today, albeit in a manner we’re not very used to seeing. A video clip on GameTrailers shows several artists constructing it piece by piece on a wall until we’re given the full picture at the end.

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Halo Shmalo: Microsoft Modifies Details of Free Halo 3 Promotion

They see the Chief and they buy the console — works like a charm Broken links on both Xbox.com and Bungie.com? What’s the deal here? It appears that Microsoft has “updated” the details to the promotion which originally stated that those who bought an Xbox 360 between November 21st and December 21st would receive a [...]

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