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Halo 3 Free – Bungie Leaks Deal for New 360 Owners

Halo 3

Earlier today, a post popped up on the Bungie.net website revealing a special deal for new Xbox 360 buyers who upgrade from an original Xbox. According to the post (which has since been removed for some reason), if you buy an Xbox 360 this holiday season, you’ll be able to…

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November 18th, 2007 by: Technabob

Xbox 360 to Get Classic Xbox Downloads

Xbox 360 and Xbox Side by Side

Kotaku is reporting that the upcoming Fall update for the Xbox 360 will include support for downloading classic Xbox titles over Xbox Live.

According to an article in the latest Official Xbox Magazine, 360 owners will be able to download a number of original Xbox titles for 1200 Microsoft points…

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November 13th, 2007 by: Technabob

Xbox Live is Five: Happy Birthday!

Xbox Live is Five

Wow, time flies when you’re having fun. Can you believe that it’s been five years since the Xbox LIVE online service got its start?

It seems like only yesterday, but on November 15, 2002, Microsoft’s groundbreaking online gaming platform made its debut as an add-on to the original Xbox. Five…

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November 7th, 2007 by: Technabob

Xbox 360 Messenger Keypad Price, Release Date

Xbox 360 Messenger Keyboard

I first told you about the Xbox 360 Instant Messenger keypad way back in April. For months, the device has been nowhere to be found, and my fingers have gone numb attempting to reply to IM conversations while I’m trying to play Bioshock….

Well the good news is that

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August 31st, 2007 by: Technabob

Bioshock Demo on Xbox Live Tonight

Bioshock Screenshot

Big news tonight for Xbox 360 fans… A demo of the anxiously anticipated FPS, Bioshock …has hit the Xbox Live Marketplace tonight.

The demo weighs in at a hefty 1.3 gig, so you’ll probably end up leaving your console on overnight (like me) to grab the full download.
According to

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August 12th, 2007 by: Technabob

Xbox 360 August 2007 Update Problems

Xbox 360 Logo

[UPDATE: It appears that the problems with the update and Xbox Live Marketplace have been corrected as of about 11:30 Central Time this morning.]…
The latest Xbox 360 System Update appears to be causing major problems for gamers today. Speaking from personal experience, the update appears to be completely breaking

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August 8th, 2007 by: Technabob

Crackdown Demo Coming to Xbox Live 1/23

Crackdown for Xbox 360

Major Nelson, Microsoft’s inside man on all things Xbox, is reporting that after numerous delays and much anticipation, the downloadable demo of Crackdown will be hitting the Xbox Live Marketplace for download on next Tuesday, January 23rd at 2:00 Pacific Time.

Crackdown is a 3-D action/driving game, from the original…

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January 19th, 2007 by: Technabob

Xbox Live Suffered Major Outage

Xbox Live Dead

Around 7:00pm Central Time today (12/27/2006), the online game play portion of the Xbox Live service went down for the count, and as of this writing, (about 4-1/2 hours later), the service remains down. According to most reports, other portions of the service, such as chat, messages and downloads appear…

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December 27th, 2006 by: Technabob

New Rally-X Box

New Rally X Arcade Game

Just because Christmas is over, doesn’t mean that the new releases on Xbox Live Arcade are done. This morning, Microsoft released an updated version of the Namco arcade classic Rally-X.

The Xbox Live Arcade game is actually based on the sequel, New Rally-X, was released back in 1981. It features…

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December 27th, 2006 by: Technabob

Space Giraffe = Tempest on Steroids

Space Giraffe is the latest game from Jeff Minter’s Llamasoft, creator of such classics as Tempest and it’s various derivatives as well as the cool light show visualizations you see in the Xbox 360′s music player.
A video has now surfaced, showing work in progress on the game, and it…

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December 15th, 2006 by: Technabob

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