Kotaku: replacement

GameStop No Longer Offering Xbox 360 Replacement Plans

fdemarco — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:00:00 MDT

Whenever I purchase a major piece of electronics, be it form Best Buy or anywhere else, I always get the store's extended replacement plan. In almost every case it's come in extremely handy especially in the case of the DS Lite I got from GameStop which I had to return three times due to burnt out pixels. But, good things don't always last forever...

GameStop is now ending their replacement plan for new Xbox 360's due to the system's high failure rate. According to a GameStop employee newsletter and information provided to website GamersReports, current replacement plans will be honored until they expire, but no new ones will be offered.

Not too terribly surprising considering the seemingly never ending rash of stories about 360 hardware failure. I can only imagine that something like that would basically be bleeding money from the company right and left. Even though Microsoft has promised that all the new systems will no longer have these issues, it looks like GameStop isn't taking any chances.

Paper Mario Europe Bugged

Mike Fahey — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:00:16 MDT

Nintendo of Europe posted an item on their website today detailing a bug within the European release of Super Paper Mario. It's a bug that occurs when playing the game in UK English, German, or Spanish. After meeting Mimi in Chapter 2-2, if you talk to her before picking up the key that opens the nearby trap, the game will freeze. It's a tiny bug, and one that is easily circumvented by following the instructions NoE has included on their website. Despite that fact, the company still plans on offering a free replacement disc in the near future for anyone that would rather have a bug-free version of the game. Awfully nice of them if you ask me. I would have just sent a notice out via the website and possibly the Wii-mail system and been done with it. Keep an eye on Nintendo Europe's site for replacement details.

Super Paper Mario announcement [Nintendo Europe - Thanks Martin]

Chrome Xbox 360 Controller

Brian Crecente — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:00:13 MDT

Team Xtender just posted pics of their shiny new Full Chrome Controller Shell. The shiny replacement shell for your wired Xbox 360 case would be perfect for bashing in the heads of your overly-skilled gamer buddies when they get a little too smack-talky for their own good. Brian Crecente

Full Chrome Controller Shell [Team Xtender]