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xbox 360 ’
Mar 12th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

A Yale University student seems to love his console (just like we all do, after all) and is asking the US Airways for $1 Million in damages over his lost Xbox 360. According to the student, the console was lost (or stolen) back in December and since then he got from the airline “an unconscionable [...]
Tags: Funny, Legal, Real life, xbox 360
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Feb 19th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

A new and rather strange problem is hitting Xbox 360 owners these days, as sources confirm that an email problem via Microsoft has already caused the deletion of some Gamertags and it could be possible that even more will follow.
Apparently, there is absolutely no fix for this problem and Microsoft is working madly to [...]
Tags: Gamertags, Microsoft, Problems, XBLA, xbox 360
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Jan 19th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Microsoft has announced that it will retire the Gamescore blog in order to focus more on Xbox.com and the Xbox dashboard (although the expense cuts might have been a factor too). So we can say that it’s a pretty sad day for Xbox 360 owners who enjoyed reading the Gamescore blog, but at least they [...]
Tags: Gamescore, Microsoft, xbox 360
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Jan 8th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

One thing is clear: gamers do all sorts of strange things to prove their loyalty and love for a specific game or games console: some of them are cool, while others are painful and kind of stupid. Right now we’re going to talk about some cool concepts: three different car modifications made by some really [...]
Tags: Funny, Modded Console, MODs, Nintendo, Real life, xbox 360
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Jan 7th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Last year was a great one for Microsoft and the Xbox 360, as you could easily imagine following our previous report regarding the 8 million Xbox consoles sold during the last holiday season. But that was not all, since all year long people kept buying Xbox 360s and creating XBL accounts, driving the life-to-date unit [...]
Tags: Games industry, Microsoft, Sales, xbox 360
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Jan 6th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

Let’s not forget about the console wars! There are sale charts, there are fanboys slamming other fanboys’ data, there are all sorts of ways to “decide” the winner of the console wars… One of them is, of course, checking the exclusive games and that’s exactly what we’re planning to do now. So, the battle is [...]
Tags: Best Gaming Platform, Console Wars, PS3, Wii, xbox 360
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Jan 6th, 2009 |
By Calin Ciabai

It appears that not only Nintendo had a great holiday season, but Microsoft too. The company released sales data showing that Christmas 2008 was the biggest sales period ever in the brand’s six-year European history, with Xbox 360 sales almost double compared to the sales of the previous holiday season.
The company reported that about eight [...]
Tags: Hardware, Microsoft, Sales, xbox 360
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Dec 23rd, 2008 |
By Calin Ciabai

A great offer comes today, right before Christmas, for all the Halo fans out there: the final Holiday Deal of the Week on the Xbox 360 offers Halo: Combat Evolved for just 600 MS Points, starting today. The deal is available for one week only.
Only Xbox 360 Gold members can purchase the original Halo game [...]
Tags: Goodies, Halo, Microsoft, xbox 360
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Dec 22nd, 2008 |
By Calin Ciabai

All Christmas movies have a scene in which some happy family members sit in front of a fireplace and enjoy the holidays – I always wanted to live such an experience but never had the chance. Probably some of you are in the same situation. But now have no reasons to be upset anymore, since [...]
Tags: Virtual Fireplace, XBLA, xbox 360, XNA
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Dec 16th, 2008 |
By Calin Ciabai

As if the Red Ring of Death problems were not enough for Microsoft, the company is now blamed for the scratched Xbox 360 game discs all over the world. However, since the problem was not very common and no apparent reasons existed to link the consoles with disc scratches, not much noise was made on [...]
Tags: Hardware, Legal, Microsoft, xbox 360
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