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Now owners of Xbox 360 consoles with temperature control issues can finally put that extra heat to practical use with the innovative Xbox Live Community game, Fireplace. More »
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Like a bad Sunday afternoon rerun of a Poroit, this mystery starts off with the usual suspects: kids, a confined PS3, an exposed XBOX 360, and mucking around on a typical morning. This, of course, becomes a recipe for murder and as John Davidson finds out that the motive was simply one entertainment unit wasn't big enough for the both of them. As one child accidently turns on the PS3 while the Xbox is being actively played, unforeseen events unfold: More »
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Although we've seen the PS3 billboards before — and though all of us besides those Kotaku editors desperately phoning in the hard-hitting gaming "journalism" for which we're known felt our eyes glaze over and our middle fingers involuntarily twirling the mouse wheel past the mundane, uninspired posts — this one is interesting. More »
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It looks like we weren't the only ones to notice the Playstation 3's overheating during the Tokyo Game Show. Macquarie Equities analyst David Gibson also saw some PS3s locking up and having to be reset at the big show. And he didn't like what he saw: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=204897&view=rss&microfeed=true A Canadian company says it will showcase a liquid cooling system for the Xbox 360 at next week's Consumer Electronics Show. I've asked the editors of our sister site Gizmodo to take a look at this puppy, since they'll be prowling the show floor. There wasn't much detail in the press release and the photo of the product seems sketchy. Most of the problems of overheating arise from the coal-burning power supply, not from the actual console itself, so why is their cooling unit chilling the CPU and GPU? We hope to have the answers for you next week. More »
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