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Pizza Hut and EA are offering up 10 Fight Night Round 4 consoles (pictured, well, 1 of 10 is featured) and 200 copies of the game as part of the Rumble in the Ring sweepstakes. Oh yeah, there's also a trip for two to Vegas to see a championship fight live ... but let's focus on the things you actually have a chance at winning. The sweepstakes works by going to the contest website and ...read more
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After running into some significant (and now fixed) issues on Xbox Live Marketplace, it looks like there are still more kinks to be worked out of Xbox.com since the Xbox Live maintenance earlier this week. Tipster soulpopped reports that secret Achievements are showing up on gamercards, regardless of whether or not you've unlocked them yourself. Specifically, the new Xbox.com shows ...read more
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On Tuesday, June 16th from 7:01AM UTC (12:01 AM PST) for up to 24 hours, Xbox Live will be offline for maintenance. As a result, Xbox LIVE and the ‘My Xbox’ section of Xbox.com will be unavailable, and the Xbox forums will be in read only mode (you won’t be able to post.) The remainder of Xbox.com will be available with limited interruptions. This service maintenance is ...read more
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In an interview with the Official Xbox Magazine during E3 last week, Patrick Soderlund, senior vice-president of EA games Europe, states that they have "maxed out" the XBOX 360 console, leaving very little or no headroom for future titles. He also added that they "haven't maxed out the PS3" and are "getting more power" out of Sony's console right now. Soderlund was impressed with Microsoft's ...read more
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Alex Kipman, project director of Microsoft's new innovation, Project Natal has revealed to Eurogamer one of the long term goals is to release triple A titles on the Xbox 360 which use the technology. Kipman also revealed some more details about the project's beginnings and ways it's already being used in games out on the market today. "I've been working at Microsoft for about eight years, ...read more
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British firm BSkyB has joined forces with Microsoft to give Xbox 360 owners the chance to watch live television and on demand content on their consoles. The Sky Player will come to Xbox in the autumn, giving subscribers access to live pay TV channels - including Sky Sports. According to Sky the following options will be in place: For a customer joining Sky through their Xbox, Sky Player TV ...read more
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Microsoft Xbox 360 has hit another milestone today. As reported by VGchartz, the next generation console has reached sales of 30 million worldwide. Released on Novemeber 22, 2005, it has taken Microsoft's second gaming console just over three years to reach the mark. While this may not sound significant when comparing it to it's rivals (the Nintendo Wii is currently just under 50 million in ...read more
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Coming in May, a brand new bundle for the Xbox 360 console will be available in all stores (except those in europe). The bundle includes an Xbox 360 elite, which in itself comes with a 120gb hard drive and a wireless controller, along with two games. One of which will be Halo 3 and the other, Fable 2. The total price for the bundle will be at $399 US, which is the price of a Xbox 360 elite alone, ...read more
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Rumors are flying that Microsoft may just be killing off it's high-end Xbox 360 model, the Elite. The news comes from FUDZilla, and will reportedly happen sometime during the second quarter of this year. The hardware that the Elite features will apparently be saved only for the Limited Edition Xbox....
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Today Microsoft announced that they have signed a deal with NBC Universal to allow their movies to be distributed through Xbox Live Marketplace in Europe. David Gosen from Xbox Europe commented on how this will be a major addition to an already popular entertainment center for gamers and non gamers alike, "This agreement makes the Xbox Live film offering bigger and better than ever. For Xbox, we ...read more
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