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LIVE Scheduled Downtime September 29

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

From the Xbox PR Blog (http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2008/09/23/561244.aspx ):[QUOTE]Ok boys and girls, Xbox LIVE is having a scheduled downtime on Monday, September 29 starting at 12:01am Pacific Time. It will be down for 24 hours as we prepare for the cool new stuff coming your way in the new Xbox experience.Keep checking back for more information on […]

Obama leading McCain among Xbox voters

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

From the press release:[QUOTE]In one of the nation’s largest unofficial election polls, Senator Barack Obama leads the vote by a 12 percent margin, while 26 percent voted “undecided” or “other.” These results do not map to national trends, which show Senator Obama and Senator McCain to be pacing neck and neck, and provide insight into […]

Xbox in Japan: A New Dawn?

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

From edge-online.com (http://www.edge-online.com/features/xbox-japan-a-new-dawn ):[QUOTE]The strategy has served Microsoft well recently. While the Xbox 360 generally averages about 5,000 sales a week in Japan according to Media Create data, last month saw the release of Namco Bandai’s 360-exclusive Tales of Vesperia, which debuted at No4 in the country’s software chart after selling 108,000 copies during the […]

Peter Moore Interview: Epilogue - Microsoft Changed the World of Entertainment

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

From guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2008/sep/21/gamesinterviews ):[QUOTE]So here’s Peter, closing off on an extremely interesting and candid interview…”I am so fortunate to have been part of this industry at a time of technological advances that have changed the way we all play games. I am especially fortunate to have spent 4 exhilarating years at Microsoft, working with some […]

mode_b and DVDkey32 update

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

An update has been released for the method to set mode b via windows, and the lite-on win32 based key retriever…I have written a new exe that uses a different PortIO driver. This new one seems far more stable than the Geek’s Hideout IO driver that I used previously, and as of now has not […]

Xbox 360 sales up 32 per cent following UK price cut

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

From gamesindustry.biz (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/xbox-360-sales-up-32-per-cent-following-uk-price-cut ):[QUOTE]GFK Chart-Track has told GamesIndustry.biz that sales of Xbox 360 hardware rose 32 per cent over the weekend of Microsoft’s latest price reduction.In comparison, sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 were down eight per cent on the previous weekend.[/QUOTE]Full Story: gamesindustry.biz (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/xbox-360-sales-up-32-per-cent-following-uk-price-cut )Read More… [Source: Xbox-Scene News]

6 Million 360s Sold in Europe

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

From the press release:[QUOTE]Microsoft today announced that the Xbox 360 has broken through the six million mark in Europe, thanks to strong momentum for the console across the region. A reduction in the estimated retail price (ERP) of the console last week has brought the entry-level ERP for Xbox 360 down to €179/129.99. This reduction […]

BenHeck: Sneak Peek at the THQ Laptop

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

From benheck.com (http://benheck.com/09-19-2008/sneak-peak-at-the-thq-laptop-prize ):[QUOTE]Usually I don’t show works-in-progress, but THQ wanted me to keep people in the loop so here’s a quick look at the Darksiders laptop. (http://pictures.xbox-scene.com/xbox360/benheck/case_1.jpg )It’s similar in size to my previous Xbox 360 laptops but a little bigger. * A little more room allows a lot more features […]

“The All New Bargains Thread” (EuroGamer)

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Get involved with Eurogamer’s community portal, including reader reviews, personal game collections, private discussion groups, Xbox Live gamertag integration and tons more.Read More… [Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for xbox]

Video game GPUs find use in biological modelling (iTNews)

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Forget supercomputers — researchers have devised a method of using graphics processing technology from video games in complex biological modelling.Read More… [Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for video game]