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New Xbox 360 controller with twist-up D-pad coming Nov. 9, bundled with charge k
It's the Xbox controller with a twist! As indicated by our source, Microsoft has announced a redesigned Xbox 360 wireless controller. The new gamepad will debut in a matte silver color with gray-toned face buttons and analog sticks with a more dramatic concave shape. Key to the new design is a "transforming" D-pad that changes from a semi-flush disc to a pop-out plus sign by twisting the D-pad ...read more
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Rumor: new Xbox 360 controller with improved d-pad for the holidays
We've got it on good authority that sometime this Holiday season, Microsoft will launch a new Xbox 360 controller with a rather unique d-pad. According to our trusted source, when one rotates the d-pad ninety degrees on this new controller, it'll raise up about a quarter of an inch -- a modification apparently revealed to be targeted at fighting game fans. Could it be a version of that nifty ...read more
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Xbox Live Gold subscription prices to increase
Best renew that Gold subscription in a hurry; as of November 1, the prices of several Xbox Live Gold memberships in Canada, Mexico, the UK and the US will increase. A monthly sub in the US will be $9.99 instead of the current $7.99, $24.99 for three months (currently $19.99), and $59.99 for 12 months (currently $49.99). A1 month sub in the UK will be pushed to 5.99 GBP (currently 4.99 GBP) and ...read more
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Stores Breaking Halo: Reach Release Date
Halo: Reach has just over two weeks until it's aloud out of those big brown boxes and into Xbox 360 consoles across the globe, however according to an anonymous tipster- stores are already selling the game.The tipster, who remains anonymous, has informed JPS that a retailer (no store name was given) is selling the game- breaking the embargo date that Microsoft strictly enforced.As of now, it's ...read more
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Kinect beta kits going out, Dashboard update live for participants (with pics!)
Asking people never to leak pics of beta software just isn't going to happen in this digital world. Good news is, pics of the Kinect beta dash have been leaked and they clearly show a few things incuding: 'flatter presentation', a new mini guided and revamped Avatar editor. Moreover, the beta is apparently being packed right now and all the testers will get it soon. click read more for the rest ...read more
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Xbox headset quality improvement in November
An upcoming Xbox 360 update, expected around the time of Kinect’s launch this November, will “significantly” improve the audio quality of the system’s headset, EG’s discovered from Xbox Live studio head Jerry Johnson. “The codec we used when we first launched was a low bit rate codec and we stuck with that,” explained Johnson at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival today. “We ...read more
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Treyarch Are Finished With World War II Games
Call of Duty developers Treyarch- known for their World War II additions to the Call of Duty franchise- will no longer be making World War II games.Treyarch started off on the franchise with Call of Duty 3, followed by Call of Duty: World at War a couple of years later- and have now stated that they're simply done making games set in World War II. "I'm not saying that the genre's done. It ...read more
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Mod: How to put an old Xbox 360 HDD into Xbox 360 S
We're no good with screwdrivers -- OK, well, some of us are -- so we'd probably never attempt to mod our shiny new 4GB Xbox 360 S by fitting an old hard drive in it. If you're braver than us (very likely), feel free to check out the step-by-step guide which pulls back the curtain on the magical process of techno-wizardy fueling this hybrid of form and frugality. Of course, it goes without ...read more
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Microsoft fires off salvo of Halo: Reach pirating permabans
If you were one of the ne'er-do-wells who thought downloading a leaked copy of Halo: Reach and then playing it online was a really, really great idea, you might have received a stern email from Microsoft like the one recently dug up by MaxConsole. The document informs these red-handed pirates that "your Xbox LIVE account privileges have been permanently suspended due to illegitimate prerelease ...read more
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Vejle bares all: Xbox 360 Slim's system-on-chip exposed
Technophiles have no doubt been anxious to traverse that final frontier of Xbox 360 S technology: the shared CPU/GPU, dubbed Vejle after the city in Denmark. This 45nm system-on-chip (SoC) trims much of the fat of its predecessor, slimming down to 372 million transistors (it is summer -- gotta look your best out there!), requiring a mere 40 percent of the power and less than 50 percent of the die ...read more
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