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Is it true? Another price cut for XB360?  Multiple sources say so: Best Buy Ad Shows Xbox 360 Price Drop Too From kotaku.com: Another retailer has shown that Microsoft is planning to drop the price of the Xbox 360 20GB model — formerly known as the “Pro” — to $299, as a Best Buy employee has forwarded [...]

From the Xbox PR Blog: We have all eagerly been awaiting the DRM tool that will allow you to transfer licenses from one console to another and guess what? Today, it has finally arrived! I’m posting some of the key information that you need to know regarding this tool. To find out more, please go to http://www.xbox.com/drm Key [...]

The court ruling for the Mr Modchips victory in the UK high court has been officially released to the public. Points of note are: “The prosecution contended that Mr Higgs was providing devices which enabled the circumvention of ETMs. But it is very important to understand the factual basis of the contention. It was not that the [...]

The Details: XB01 was first shown at the 2008 CES show in USA, and this concept got a lot of feedback and user suggestions. At the 2008 Computex in Taipei, the final vision of the PC-XB01 Xbox 360 modding case was ready for shipping. Lian Li wants to make the 360 even better!  So, their designers [...]

AMD has invested heavily into hyperbole research, proudly proclaiming that its new graphics chip, the RV770, is “more powerful than every generation of video game console ever brought to market combined.” The RV770, demoed Monday, is capable of processing one trillion floating operations per second on a single chip, a feat that AMD says “punches [...]

The title basically says it all, but the blurb is: Microsoft has decided that it will announce the long overdue upgrade at E3 next month (the event runs from 15 - 17 July), with a release date scheduled for August…

Jack Thompson, the US attorney and frequent critic of video games, has been disbarred from practicing law for a minimum of ten years! It’s about time! Hypocrite; He is against inappropriate and violent conduct in video games, but apparently it’s he believes it’s ok in the court-room? The transcript of the hearing, where the [...]

In a landmark historic occasion today 11 June 2008 at the court of appeal criminal division the legal argument that modchips do not circumvent copyright protection was upheld by Judge Justice Jacobs. The granting of this appeal based on the argument that the copyright infringement has already taken place before the use of a modchip has [...]

First there was a rumor that M$ was going to announce a BR-D to one up Apple WWDC: Microsoft’s on-again, off-again relationship with an Xbox 360 Blu-Ray drive looks set to be on again this Monday. As you all know by now, Monday marks the beginning of Apple’s annual WWDC, and a little bird told us [...]

From an interview with Team Ninja (Ninja Gaiden II) developer Tomonubu Itagaki on mcvuk.com: MCV: “Ninja Gaiden II has got some great previews from the press - how proud of it are you?” Itagaki: “I’m very happy with it. It’s not 100 per cent as I think that’s not possible to do, but I think that I [...]

Niko Bellic wants his money. By Ben Silverman Forget liberty - give us residuals or give us death. It’s a sentiment shared by countless actors, and one most poignantly offered by Michael Hollick, better known as the voice of GTA IV’s immigrant star, Niko Bellic. In a New York Times article, Hollick revealed that he earned [...]

Microsoft (reportedly) plans to release a new version its Xbox 360 video game system code-named Jasper in August and has already assigned IBM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to make chips for the new game console. However, there are other important rumours: TSMC also got orders to produce the chip for code-named Valhalla Xbox [...]

What’s better than blowing stuff up after a long day of work? Not having to locate a rocket launcher to do it… Wreak immediate havoc courtesy of p0Wer. Yeah, you know what it’s all about. Have fun! - source: game-warp.com

Some of you are still not understanding that porting XBMC to a (XDK) 360 is still more than just a matter of recompiling, you do not know that a decent MAME port requires things which the original XDK doesn’t evrn provide (self modifying code; that was the main reason why the existing MAME port, which [...]

What is M$ up to? A report from Taiwanese news source Economic Daily News says that Pegatron Technology–a recently formed subsidiary of Asus that shouldn’t be confused with the Decepticon leader–has received an order from Microsoft to manufacture a Blu-ray equipped model of the Xbox 360. According to the report, Pegatron says that it plans to [...]

The newer Phillips & Lite-On drives (for BenQ) have surfaced, and M$ seems to have gone with a ROM instead of FLASH memory. This is what M$ did with the V1.6+ Xbox1 systems so they could not be flashed either. Info: MFG Date: April 08 Model no. DG-16D2S HW Version. A0A1 FW Version. 74850 Here is a pic of the [...]

Rat-a-tat-tat… Yet another mind shattering mod from the team that does it best — AcidMods! Check it… Do note: using this mod online is cheating; straight up, low down, dirty cheating. - source & tutorial: AcidMods

Apr 18th:  M$ released a system update for the Xbox 360 over Xbox LIVE.  When you sign in to Xbox LIVE you’ll recieve a prompt to accept this mandatory update. This update contains code to ‘prepare for future growth of the service.’ There are no other changes or enhancements in this update…in other words no new [...]

Wii, Wii? Sources have confirmed the existence of the Xbox Wiimote clone project; code name: “Newton” The hardware is still being worked on and it might be a couple months before we see leaked shots of any prototypes when they start to mass manufacture it; but, there might ba an early software developer kit and prototype out [...]

This article from a Swiss newspaper recounts the appearance of Christopher Tarnovsky at the European Black Hat conference.  While with NDS, Tarnovsky cracked Kudeslki’s satellite TV encryption, but claims he didn’t post the result on the open Net. His responses to audience questions are amusing, in particular when someone from Microsoft asks him about breaking [...]