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

Remember that Obama Xbox Game Ad?

Well apparently the in-game ad campaign still running has cost the Obama team $44,000.00. According to GameSpot the ad was run in games such as Burnout Paradise across 10 battleground states. the full campaign started on October ... continue

Microsoft & Netflix Team Up For New Xbox Streaming Service

Microsoft's getting in the game of Internet-to-television movie downloads. A new partnership with Netflix will bring streaming movie and show capabilities to TVs via the Xbox 360 gaming system. The service will be offered only to users ... continue