Tag Archive for 'microsoft'

I’m sure that you all remember the story from a few weeks ago about the gamer that had his prized Xbox 360 scrubbed clean at a repair depot. The guy had collected signatures and artwork from a number of important people in the gaming industry, and then had it scrubbed clean by a technician. [...]

It has 23 security updates, 550 hotfixes, and is packed into a 434.5MB package or 726.5MB for the 64-bit version. That’s a fat service pack if I do say so myself.

Word on the streets is that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is getting some new hardware manufacturers. These are coming in the form of Asus subsidiaries Pegatron and Unihan.

As we’ve heard before, Valve has several new maps and other DLC in the works for Team Fortress 2. We also know that they want it to be free for everyone to download, however, it’s out of their hands they say.

So the question on every Xbox 360 owner since the demise of the HD DVD format has been whether Microsoft will bite the bullet and release a Blu-ray add-on for the console. Rumors have been running abound that Microsoft is in talks with Sony to do just that. However, the official word from Microsoft is [...]

For the last week or two we’ve been hearing rumors about a price drop for the Xbox 360 in Europe. While the majority of our readers are living here in the US, I’m sure that there will be plenty of readers excited to hear that Microsoft has just confirmed these rumors.

We all know that the HD DVD is dead, and Microsoft has killed off their add-on for the 360. We also know that Microsoft has been talking to the Blu-ray camp, albeit about a piece of software, but we now know that they are in talks with Sony about offering a Blu-ray add-on for the [...]

Back in December Microsoft released an Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator, which ran $2,999. Essentially it allowed people that were working on HD DVD content for the 360 to test it out without having to continually burn (and waste) disc after disc. Well since the format war is over and Microsoft has killed off [...]

Remember earlier this week when I told you about the gamer that had his autographed 360 wiped clean (or had his case swiped)? Well there still hasn’t been any official word from Microsoft on the matter, they’re still “investigating.” While Microsoft is looking into the matter, Bungie is taking action.
“Something is already ‘afoot’ within [...]

Samsung is shipping the world’s first 2.5” 500GB notebook HDD starting today. Sure there have been other notebook hard drives released recently with a similar capacity, but those were 3.5” drives, this is yet another amazing feat accomplished by Samsung, the giant of the CE and Mobile industries.