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by Richard on July 31, 2007
Xbox mod-master Ben Heck has dissected a new 360 Elite and made an interesting find - the new units are sporting enhanced GPU heatsinks:
Here's a good view of the heat sink area. The CPU 'si...
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XBLA
by Richard on July 31, 2007
The upcoming Xbox Live Arcade four-player co-op side-scrolling beat-em-up castle crashers (from Behemoth, the developer of Alien Hominid) was on display at the recent San Diego Comic Con and GameVideo...
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by Richard on July 31, 2007
Tired of paying $8 a pop for issues of the Official Xbox Magazine when you just want the exclusive content off of the included disc? Well, soon that price will be reduced to just over two clams, and y...
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by Richard on July 31, 2007
Rare has updated their official website with some details on the new Viva Pinata DS, including this first screenshot:
Other details revealed in the update are that the game will feature the complet...
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XBLA
by Richard on July 31, 2007
According to a press release on Evil Avatar Indian developer Gameshastra has scored the rights to convert everyone's favorite knob-twisting drawing toy, the Etch A Sketch, into a game for the PC, ...
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Games
by Richard on July 31, 2007
IGN has reviewed the upcoming Live Arcade port of Marathon: Durandal and while they give the game a "decent" score of 7.4 they do have one unusual issue with the game - motion sickness:
Mara...
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Deals
by Richard on July 31, 2007
Hot on the trail of the recent 360 Premium price cut rumor is another leaked Sunday ad that shows price breaks for all three Xbox 360 models - bringing the Core unit to $280 (a $20 drop), the Premium ...
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Rumors
by Richard on July 30, 2007
Cheap Ass Gamer users have produced images from upcoming August Sunday ads for Toys R Us and Walmart that supposedly reveal a $50 price drop for the Xbox 360 Premium unit - bringing the price down to ...
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XBLA
by Richard on July 30, 2007
This week the Live Arcade gets its next Uno - Spyglass board games:# Full featured games: Four classic board games to choose from. Play Chess, Checkers, Mancala, or Reversi.# Video integration with Xb...
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XBLA
by Richard on July 30, 2007
XBLA Wednesday is late this week as I wanted to wait until my 360 got back from the repair center before blogging about the release of Wing Commander Arena for the Live Arcade - I've been a fan ...
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Games
by Richard on July 30, 2007
Kotaku brings us the glorious news that Microsoft (by way of Rare) is bringing the Viva Pinata franchise to the Nintendo DS. Squint your eyes and enjoy these first blurry screens:
The DS port will ...
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XBLA
by Richard on July 30, 2007
While Rare has had little retail success with its disc-based games since being acquired by Microsoft we now know that they've broke even with at least one game - Jetpac Refuelled for the Live Arca...
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Console Wars
by Richard on July 30, 2007
A day after Nintendo announced that it had sold some 3.4 million Wiis in the June quarter sony announced that they'd only sold 710,000 PlayStation 3s in the same timeframe.
So your system sold a...
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Video
by Richard on July 28, 2007
I haven't played a Resident Evil game since the series left the first Playstation but the franchise hasn't suffered for my lack of interest - I guess they're up to five of them now and the...
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Deals
by Richard on July 28, 2007
As part of their ploy to make you a pawn in their dumb corporate HD-slapfest Microsoft haslowered the price of the HD-DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 from $199 to $179. To make the deal even sweeter they&...
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by Richard on July 23, 2007
Microsoft's entertainment division is in the hole 1.9 billion US this year partly in thanks to the costs associated with that three-year warranty extension. Sounds like a lot, right? But despite t...
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by Richard on July 21, 2007
Games Radar reports that Rockstar's Bully - originally released on the PS2 last year - will be arriving this winter on the Wii and Xbox 360. It's not just a sloppy port, either - this "s...
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XBLA
by Richard on July 20, 2007
With my 360 on its way to that big repair facility in the sky (err, in Texas) I managed to miss this week's Live Arcade releases. It's probably for the better that I found out about them two d...
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Games
by Richard on July 19, 2007
Everyone's favorite grey-and-brown third-person shooter is going multi-platform - by the end of this year you'll be able to watch the Gears of War turn on Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS.
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by Richard on July 19, 2007
Teen heartthrob/vice president of the Xbox division at Microsoft Peter Moore recently announced that he's jumping ship and swimming to EA Sports. Why? Well, the bag of money they offered him proba...
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Games
by Richard on July 16, 2007
I've got mixed feelings about the Turok series. As awesome as should be to have a gunfight with a pack of cybernetically-enhanced velociraptors, it wasn't really that awesome at all - the N6...
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Hardware
by Richard 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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Marketplace
by Richard on July 16, 2007
Those with children and those who never quite grew out of childhood, rejoice! You can now rent a variety of Disney animated (and not-so-animated) movies from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Here's the ...
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News
by Richard on July 13, 2007
With most eyes in the media focused on new games during E3 this bit of news about old games could easily be overlooked - today Microsoft added a few dozen new games to the backwards compatibility list...
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Demo
by Richard on July 12, 2007
The exciting news that there's a Blue Dragon demo up now on the Live Marketplace was hampered for me by the fact that my suffering Xbox can't stay on long enough to play through the entire th...
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XBLA
by Richard on July 11, 2007
While software pirates everywhere have been using emulation to play videogame ROMs on systems they weren't intended for since the 1990s, it wasn't until recently that Sega discovered they coul...
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Rumors
by Richard on July 9, 2007
While there's been no official announcement on the matter, Wired's Game|Life has been collecting evidence that Guitar Hero-killer Rock Band might be an Xbox 360 exclusive:
Clue #1 - The Pla...
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Hardware
by Richard 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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Games
by Richard on July 4, 2007
What's most amazing about this video: Finally seeing the drum controller in action? The awesome bit of instrument abuse that is the Ending Bonus? Or that Rock Band can take something as lame as ...
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XBLA
by Richard on July 3, 2007
This week's Live Arcade release is a bare-bones port of the Atari classic missile Command. It's got the standard laundry list of features: remade 3D graphics, a mode where you can play the ori...
