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on July 16, 2007
Microsoft introduced some new hardware at their E3 press conference last week - nothing as extreme as a handheld console or an upgraded 360 but interesting enough for the color-conscious and chat-addi...
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on July 6, 2007
In light of the recent rumors that Xbox 360 failure rates may be as high as 33% Microsoft has revised the 360 warranty for the second time this year. The previous warranty update gave free repairs to ...
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on June 28, 2007
1UP.com has an eye-opening article about the Xbox-woes of one man, Justin Lowe, who has had eleven 360s die on him:Justin has not had a working system for longer than a month or two. The list of probl...
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on June 26, 2007
Earlier this week in their email newsletter gamestop (the last place you usually go for your game news, I know) revealed a key piece of EA's Guitar-Hero-Slayer Rock Band -- their own guitar contro...
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on May 17, 2007
The rumor mill has been churning and the word on the street is that Microsoft has a Blu-Ray player on the back burner in case the HD-DVD format doesn't come out the winner in the high-definition...
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on May 9, 2007
The spring Dashboard update arrived today (a little later than previously reported) and it hasn't bricked my system yet. You can get a complete list of the new features here but here's a few o...
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on April 30, 2007
If IGN's text explanation of how the new data transfer cable works just wasn't visual enough for you, you can watch Major Nelson & friends walk through the process in this video:
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on April 29, 2007
Happy with the 360 you have but jealous of the new Elite owner's uniquely colored boxes? Don't worry about it -- now you can pay extra for purely cosmetic upgrades, too! Mail your console to C...
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on April 28, 2007
There's a lot to be underwhelmed about with the new 360 Elite. What exactly does that extra $80 get you, anyway? A black case and some overpriced hard disk space, mostly. Despite the $479 price ta...
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on April 26, 2007
IGN got their hands on the new hard drive transfer kit that comes with the also-new 120GB HDD and they've written up a nice post with the details of the transfer process. It isn't pretty: the ...