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The Xbox 360′s New Official Controller Is a Transformer [Xbox 360]

By Lindsay R.
The Xbox 360s New Official Controller Is a Transformer [Xbox 360]

So, that new-and-improved Xbox 360 controller ? It's real . It's silver. And the d-pad transforms, switching from the Xbox's traditional, kinda crappy disc to a good-to-goodness four-directional d-pad-all you've gotta do is twist it. Now for the bad news. It's only available as ...

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Rumor: A New Xbox 360 Controller With a D-Pad That Doesn’t Suck? [Rumor]

By Lindsay R.
Rumor: A New Xbox 360 Controller With a D-Pad That Doesnt Suck? [Rumor]

Holy Jesus, here is what I need for Christmas: A new Xbox 360 controller with a d-pad that doesn't suck. (Like the FightPad here , but within the official controller.) Joystiq hears Microsoft's making it happen for Christmas. Specifically, ...

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Xbox Live Price Increase Coming November 1 [Microsoft]

By Lindsay R.
Xbox Live Price Increase Coming November 1 [Microsoft]

Xbox Live Gold subscribers might like to renew before November 1, when the cost of a yearly subscription to the service jumps $10 in North America. According to a post on Major Nelson's blog, after eight years' of Xbox Live at the $50 a year price point, the service is finally seeing a ...

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Xbox Live Getting Improved Audio Quality Q4 [XboxLive]

By Lindsay R.
Xbox Live Getting Improved Audio Quality Q4 [XboxLive]

In line with Eurogamer, Xbox Live will get a system-wide audio quality upgrade in concert with the release of Kinect q4. That implies the 13-year-old on the receiving end of your profanities will hear you with crystal clarity. At the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Xbox Live Europe GM Jerry Johnson said ...

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The most recent Xbox 360′s Very Special Guts [Xbox 360]

By Lindsay R.

The most recent Xbox 360 is best for various reasons -like its guts. Inside is the first ever mass-market chip to combine a CPU, GPU, memory and I/O connectivity on one piece of silicon . Here's what it appears ...

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Iron Man Xbox 360 Mod Powers Your Gaming With Arc Reactor [Mods]

By Lindsay R.
Iron Man Xbox 360 Mod Powers Your Gaming With Arc Reactor [Mods]

When you're modding your Xbox you've two options: 1. Bend the Xbox for your idea; or 2. Bend your idea to the Xbox. Adding a whirring arc reactor in your console is the latter at its excellent: Zachariah Perry Cruse, a 19 year old sculpture student, is the game-playing Tony Stark behind this mod, capturing the ...

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Go Get Your Xbox 360 S 250GB Harddrive [Xbox]

By Lindsay R.
Go Get Your Xbox 360 S 250GB Harddrive [Xbox]

So you went with the recent 4GB Xbox 360 S, because who needs more than 4GB? Wait, what's that? You do? Man. Great thing there's now a $130 250GB Xbox 360 S hard drive add on at GameStop. It beats any other temporary solution, however it's a real kick inside the wallet in view that you'd ...

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Xbox 360 S 250GB hard disk sneaks into stores, Microsoft cackles as you fall into its trap

By Dan A.
Xbox 360 S 250GB hard disk sneaks into stores, Microsoft cackles as you fall into its trap

Yeah, you thought you were so clever awaiting the 4GB Xbox 360 to come back out. a trifling $199, while all of your sucker friends had already sprung the $299 for the hard disk-equipped model. You thought you might live a contented, fulfilling life swapping thumb drives and thoroughly cropping your download collection. But you ...

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EA a notable holdout on Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7, doesn’t have much to assert on the subject

By Dan A.
EA a notable holdout on Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7, doesnt have much to assert on the subject

In the event you examined the fairly impressive roster of Windows Phone 7 Xbox Live launch titles that Microsoft waved proudly in our face the opposite day, you could possibly've noticed that EA is very absent from that glorious list. Well, the oldsters at Mobile Entertainment bothered to ask EA Mobile about that absence, and ...

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Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 launching on November 10 in Europe

By Dan A.
Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 launching on November 10 in Europe

While Microsoft's new controller-free Kinect for Xbox 360 shall be hitting US shores on November 4th, we've just learned that it'll officially land in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on November 10th. Sure, that's somewhat a wait, but take heart in knowing that Microsoft's targeting an October launch of its Xbox Live ...

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Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we’ve got the whole preview

By Dan A.
Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, weve got the whole preview

We've known that proper Xbox Live gaming (powered by XNA) was coming to Windows Phone 7 devices, but we'd yet to work out any of that thumb-spraining goodness in action besides a short lived demo and a couple of developer videos. Well, Microsoft has finally come clean with details about its launch strategy for the ...

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Xbox Continue to exist Windows Phone 7: Hands On and First Impressions [Microsoft]

By Lindsay R.
Xbox Continue to exist Windows Phone 7: Hands On and First Impressions [Microsoft]

The first tease of Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7 piqued my interest, sure. But once I had just a little hands-on time with a number of the games planned for launch, Microsoft's officially got my undivided attention. Microsoft's trotting out over 50 titles today, all of which and more will probably be available by the ...

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