Xbox 360Such benevolence is a rarity among retailers like Best Buy, but it seems someone in upper management has a soul. The company has just announced that they will be giving $50 gift cards to anyone who bought a dedicated HD-DVD player on or before February 23rd, 2008. The gift cards are available by way of [...]
The "Guitar For Games" is one special piece of technology. For a mere $41.94, you can buck the trend of sticking with well manufactured OEM equipment, and step into the realm of shady 3rd party accessories. Tempted? We thought you might be. Nyko, the biggest little company you know of, has manufactured a "Wireless Guitar [...]
Parents all over the country will soon be primed to sharpen their fangs and break out the picket signs all over again. Rockstar Games, makers of what is likely the most controversial series of games this decade, has slapped a release date on the inevitable fourth edition of their brutal masterpiece. Yes, Grand Theft Auto [...]
What does a good Christmas look like for the Xbox team over at Microsoft? Try selling 1.45 million consoles in a single month. How about 1.73 million Nintendo Wii’s? Yeah, it sounds pretty good. Both Redmond-based companies had a amazingly successful holiday sales season, pushing record numbers of consoles. Sony was less successful, selling only [...]
Are you one of the many that purchased an Xbox 360 before Microsoft updated them with native HDMI output? A new adapter allows you to upgrade your early-generation 360 with a set of HDMI outputs. The process is painless, involving little more than an adapter that plugs into your existing A/V output jack. String the [...]
It might not be the sleek cutting-edge portable console that you’d expect when you hear "portable Xbox," but it’s definitely guaranteed to turn heads. For better or worse, we guess. Two Xbox fanboys have mobilized Halo 3 by assembling a 60lb rig consisting of a full size LCD TV, a harness and tubing, a [...]
Canadians just can’t catch a break, can they? The latest justification for reckless Canada-bashing comes in the form of another delay for the release of the popular Xbox 360 game, Rock Band. For those that are keeping count, it’s useful to note that the game has been available in America since the 20th of November. [...]
The Xbox 360 fall update is due out Tuesday December 4th, but who really wants to wait that long to see what is to come.
The biggest feature is the ability to download "Xbox Originals". Expect to see Halo, Fable, Crimson Skies, Psychonauts, Fuzion Frenzy, and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex each for 1200 Microsoft [...]
Yes, I do more than work with BlackBerry devices day in and day out, so consider this a rant about one of those personal pleasures that has been with me since I was a toddler - console gaming. It started with an Atari 2600 then I became the first kid on my bus route with [...]
Yep, you read that correctly. Tesco, a British version of Target, inadvertently advertised one of the biggest deals we’ve ever seen. The company ran a print ad listing an Xbox 360 bundle that included the console plus wireless controller, as well as a copy each of Viva Pinata and Forza Motorsport 2, all for the [...]
Looking for a bit of extra cash points to spend on all of your Holiday season Xbox Live and Zune Store needs? Well, Battlestar Galactica is giving away a total of 600,000 Microsoft points in 50,000 point increments. The contest requires you to fill out a simple survey, hit "submit" and sit and wait for [...]
A couple of leaked screenshots rumored to be sourced from Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox 360 fall OS update reveal a couple of pretty juicy details. It looks like the Xbox 360 will be getting a oucple of significant improvements, with Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV, at the top of the list. The screenshots show a brand [...]
We’re not quite clear on the purpose of a video game soundtrack that consists of music different from that of the actual video game. Apparently Microsoft does. The company announced the official soundtrack a couple of days ago, and dropped a bit of a surprise into the mix. They’ve offered 3 slots on the soundtrack [...]