Tag Archive for 'microsoft'
We’ve all heard horror stories about the Xbox 360’s RRoD. Hopefully you’ve never had to experience this issue yourself, but if you have, you may have had bigger issues than just trying to get it fixed. In fact, Microsoft has made it much easier to get your 360 repaired, however, if your console gets [...]
No one likes a cheater. Unfortunately in the world of online game, cheaters seem to run rampant. For some reason these people get their jollies by pwning n00bs without even touching their controllers. These 1337 cheats also love to dishonestly earn the highest Gamerscores possible, and Microsoft is finally cracking down on them.
I love my Xbox 360, I’mno fanboy, as I love all of my consoles equally. Well, except for my old Sega CD, but I’ve made peace with that. Despite my love for the console, I do worry quite often about the dreaded RRoD. What I don’t worry about is my power brick dying on me. [...]
Do you remember that semi-formal roadmap we saw not too long ago that pretty much stated that Microsoft had seen the error of their mobile ways and with 6.1 they were going to fix a lot of things and make a move towards higher useability? Well I don’t know if that’s come true or not, [...]
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.
