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Confirming this morning’s rumor, Premium Xbox 360 systems with HDMI ports are quietly appearing in stores, though the new systems do not come with an HDMI cable. [Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/hdmi-coming-to-not-so-elite-xbox-360s-287166

Xbox 360 Price Drop Brings Sales Way Up On Amazon

People like cheap things. Just like the PlayStation 3 price drop caused its sales to tent, the Xbox 360’s slash made the Xbox 360 Premium rocket to #11 in sales in video games. The other two, Elite and Core, also went up as well. Forza 2, the 360’s racing game, also benefitted from the price…

HDMI Coming to Not-So-Elite Xbox 360s?

A “mole” at Microsoft has told Ars Technica that after the current inventory is spent, they’re going to “soft launch” new Core and Premium Xbox 360s in late August or September that are loaded up with HDMI and possibly quieter DVD drives, along with the long-awaited 65nm process CPUs. While this is complete hearsay, the…

The Halo 3 Limited Edition Xbox 360 console will emerge in September for $399.99. [Press Release] https://gizmodo.com/halo-themed-xbox-360-277039

Xbox 360 Input Machine Has Gamer Playing Halo 2 With Wiimote

Click to view It’s impossible to ignore the unique brand of fun the Wii brings to the table with its motion-sensitive controller, but if you aren’t into minigame fests, you don’t have a lot of options for taking advantage of it. That’s why one dedicated gamer decided to meld the power of the Wiimote with…

Microsoft Xbox 360 Price Cuts Officially Official

Yep, the rumored Xbox 360 price drops we’d read about in leaked retail flyers from Toys R US to Circuit City are true as of August 8th. The 20GB model will be $350, the Elite with 120GB of storage will be $450! And the core?! Right, no one cares about the core. The logic behind…

If all those flyers are right, sometime this week, the Xbox 360 will be a few dollars cheaper. We’ll have to wait and see. [Xbox] https://gizmodo.com/unconfirmed-retailer-says-xbox-360-getting-price-cut-a-282391

Japanese Thermal Expert Examines Xbox 360, Figures Out What’s Wrong (Hint: Everything)

Because Microsoft will never admit to any possible overheating problems with their beloved Xbox 360 design, Japanese-based Nikkei hired a thermal design expert to come examine the console. They looked at two—one made in 2005 and one repaired in May 2007. Here’s what they found: • The temperature gap with room temp was 22 degrees…

Check if Your 360 Will Die in One Easy Step

Granted, there is no magical way to tell whether or not you are one of the alleged 30% of Xbox 360 owners who will suffer the red rings of death. But there is an easy way to check if your unit shipped with the new heatsink Microsoft has added to later units—a feature that we’re…

Xbox 360 CPU Possibly Going 45nm in late 2008, early 2009

We still haven’t gotten 65nm Xbox 360 processors, and there’s already talk of Microsoft’s contracted Singaporean chip manufacturer moving on to designing 45nm CPUs for gaming devices. Why is this important? Because the smaller the CPU fabrication size is (90nm vs 65nm vs 45nm), the less power it takes to run and the less heat…

Best Buy Drops Xbox 360 HD DVD Price to $149

Best Buy has dropped the Xbox 360 HD DVD price yet again, down from the not-yet-a-week old price of $179 to $150. The five free movie deal is still intact as well, as long as you order before September 30. However, the player looks like it’s sold out now with no store pickup available. [Best…

Lightning Round: Kontrolfreek’s Speedfreek Xbox 360 Controller Attachment

The gadget: Speedfreek, an add-on from Kontrolfreek for the Xbox 360’s left analog stick to make racing games easier to play by making the cars more precise to control. The verdict: Pretty comfortable for racing games, because it allows you to use just the sides of your thumb to gently nudge the car left or…

Xbox 360 Price Cuts: $50 off Premium, $20 off Core, $30 off Elite

New information on the Xbox 360 price drop detailed in the Toys ‘R Us and Wal-Mart ads this weekend. Circuit City is bringing out a full two-page layout with price cuts of $50 for the Premium, $30 for the Elite, and $20 for the Core. Yes, this means all those rumors of the Core getting…

Microsoft Adding Extra GPU Cooling to Retail Xbox 360 Elites

Apparently Microsoft has started adding extra GPU cooling to new retail Xbox 360 elites in order to stave off overheating problems (and the three red lights) the units may be having. These added heatsinks were only previously found in refurbished Xbox 360s in Europe, which meant we were pretty much SOL. Ben Heck dismantled a…

Rumors are flying about the Xbox 360 core being discontinued, but Microsoft keeps denying and claiming the Core is still in their stable of consoles. [Wired]

Xbox 360 Passes Wii as Most Googled Console, May Turn Sales Around?

As of a couple days ago, the Xbox 360 has officially passed up the Wii as the most searched for console (in internet searches) since early November of last year. This wasn’t due to the Wii interest dropping lately (it’s been more or less constant since January 2007), but more because of a gradually growing…

Buy One, Get One Free Xbox LIVE Points (and Subsequently Games)

This Sunday’s Circuit City ad is offering savings of $20 on the purchase of two Xbox LIVE accessories $19.99 and up. Constomers have double checked, and the deal applies to LIVE points, which means you can get a two-for-one special on 1600 point cards! Go forth, buy the cheap cards, and get future LIVE Arcade…

Toys R Us “Ad” Reduces Xbox 360 By $50, Too

Our mutant half-brothers over at Kotaku have posted a follow-up to yesterday’s Walmart ad, potentially reaffirming the Xbox 360 price drop to $350. https://gizmodo.com/walmart-ad-has-xbox-360-price-drop-coming-august-8th-283570 This time, it’s a Toys R Us ad, showing the Xbox 360 for the same $350 price under the price reduction euphemism of “price break.” This ad says August 12th, the…

Walmart Ad Has Xbox 360 Price Drop Coming August 8th?

Without seeing the alleged Walmart ad with my own eyes, this is still in BIG RUMOR form. But according to a very small picture (bigger version after the jump) that has been floating around online, the Xbox 360 Premium may be dropping $50 to $350. UPDATE: More unconfirmed intel informs us that the drop is…

Next Gen SlapFest: HD DVD Responds to Blu-ray’s Target Exclusivity

Who’d have thought the next-gen format spin war would be full of half truths and twisted facts? Oh, right, EVERYONE. It all started from Sony’s statement that Target stores will feature Sony’s BDP-S300 as the exclusive high-definition player, and AP’s article picking up on it saying Target was exclusively featuring Sony’s player in lieu of…