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For the first time ever Xbox sales top Wii and PS3 worldwide

This news should be causing more than a few smiles in Redmond as the news that the Xbox 360 beat out Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3 when it comes to worldwide sales for the first time ... continue

Turn your Xbox Silver account into Gold for a month by playing Mass Effect 3 demo

This is an interesting way to accomplish two things: show people what they are missing by not having a Gold Xbox account and how good the next release of Mass Effect is going to be. The way it ... continue

320GB Hard Drive For Xbox 360 Arrives This Month, Costs $130 With Extra Perks

Paying $130 for a 320GB hard drive is insane, however Microsoft plans to remedy that pricing by offering the storage unit with bundled gaming options that some users might find attractive. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the systems ... continue

[Pic] Is this the best girlfriend of all time?

I vote fake. [Facebook] continue

Canadian hospital using Kinect in surgery

Did you know rescrubbing for surgery can take doctors like twenty minutes? That's like a whole episode of Arrested Development. But surgeons need to reference stuff like images while surgery-ing, and it's a pain in the ass they ... continue

Call of Duty: Black Ops becomes best selling game ever in the U.S.

Videogame sales body The NPD Group has just confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops has now sold more copies in the U.S. than any other game ever. Though it's yet to spill exact figures, the shooter topped ... continue

[RUMOR] Original Halo getting hi-definition remake this year

Sources close to Joystiq are claiming that a high-definition remake of Halo: Combat Evolved from the Xbox 1 is being worked on, and that the new old Halo will see a release on the Xbox 360 this ... continue

Microsoft rules out high-definition Xbox remakes

Over the past couple of years, Sony's given a few PS2 classics a high-definition makeover and released these beautified remakes on the PlayStation 3. I used to think that was a cheap tactic, until Sony announced ICO ... continue

LEAKED: New Xbox 360 dashboard goodness [Video]

Currently I don't own an Xbox so I really don't have a frame of reference as to whether these changes are for real or an improvement over the existing one. Hopefully by Christmas though I'll be able ... continue

Xbox 360 S Gets Splashes Of Color Courtesy Of ColorWare

Colorware this week began showing off their Xbox 360 S designs. The new colors, available for the newest iteration of the Xbox 360 comes with 46 custom color options and will run customers $175 per design for an ... continue

Microsoft stakes its claim on the living room with Xbox and Kinect

The Xbox 360 presentation at E3 is over and our living rooms will never be the same. I'm still trying to absorb everything that was announced today but it is clear that with the arrival of the ... continue

Last Halo 2 squatter turfed out by Microsoft

Exactly 26 days ago, Microsoft shut down Xbox Live for the original Xbox. Amongst other things, that meant no more Halo 2, which still enjoyed a healthy online following at the time. While the rest of the world ... continue

Dedicated Halo 2 players won’t quit, who will be the last man standing?

Microsoft ended XBox Live support for the original XBox on April 14th, meaning users can no longer play some games, including Halo 2. But a handful of players aren't going down without a fight. Fifteen days later, 12 ... continue

Why Your Sons XBox Was Suspended

Where do you start with this one. Bet you they weren't expecting that reply though :) (via Buzzfeed) continue

Original Xbox Live service getting shut down tonight

For Xbox or Xbox 360 owners who play Xbox 1 games online - yes, they do exist - today is a sad day. From midnight tonight, online support for the original Xbox and all of its ... continue

Microsoft could face legal action over mass Xbox 360 bannings

Last week, Microsoft started rocking its banhammer in a big way, permanently banning 1 million Xbox Live users from the online gaming service for playing on a modded Xbox 360. But was Microsoft's choice to ban 5% ... continue

Banned Xbox sets headed to an auction site near you

Yesterday Kim reported here about the big ban hammer that Microsoft had dropped on about 600, 000 users that either had modded systems or pirated games. It turns out that those bans are permanent leaving those banned ... continue

Microsoft unleashes banhammer on 1 million Xbox Live players

Cries of frustration, anger and grief rose up from parents' basements across the land as a million Xbox Live players found themselves cut off from the service in an anti-piracy blitz by Microsoft. Microsoft describes the number of ... continue

Xbox 360 summer dashboard update hitting soon

Xbox Live is going to be down for an unspecified amount of time on August 11th, but this time for a worthwhile and explicable reason. That's because Microsoft will be updating your console with a brand new ... continue

Xbox Live down overnight, makes apparent recovery

Gawker, Twitter, Facebook: all have temporarily gone down in the past few days in what has been a week of high drama on the stormy Internet seas. Last night, Xbox Live joined them in Downtime City, further ... continue

Microsoft: Has the battleship finally turned?

Mention Microsoft in any conversation on technology and you will more often than not hear more negative things about the company, and its software, than you will about the things that it is doing ... continue

Gamers are energy pigs

And here everyone thought that gamers are nothing but a bunch of couch potatoes. Well maybe they are but those consoles they are using to play all the hottest games are chewing through a shitload of energy. ... continue