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Welp, Someone Done Tried To Sell Their Kinect Beta Already
Microsoft had to figure this was going to happen: Someone put their Kinect beta hardware and their console for sale on eBay, hoping to get $1,200 for it. It was rather quickly de-listed, however. I haven’t seen the entire EULA for this hardware beta but something tells me Microsoft probably forbids selling the unit and…
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Microsoft Reveals New 360 Controller With Transforming D-Pad
The Xbox 360 controller gets a little more fighter friendly later this year, with a new version featuring a transforming d-pad and monochrome buttons hitting stores on November 9. So what’s a transforming d-pad? As Major Nelson demonstrates in the video below, users can change the new Xbox 360 controller’s directional pad from a flat…
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Xbox Live Price Increase Coming November 1
Xbox Live Gold subscribers might want to renew before November 1, when the price of a yearly subscription to the service jumps $10 in North America. According to a post on Major Nelson’s blog, after eight years’ of Xbox Live at the $50 a year price point, the service is finally seeing a price hike.…
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Microsoft Is Ready To Ban Halo: Reach Pirates
As leaked copies of Halo: Reach hit the torrent sites, Microsoft tells Kotaku that they are aggressively investigating the leak and are fully prepared to hand out bans to anyone caught playing the game pre-release. It happens every time a big game comes out, but when it’s a game as big as Bungie’s final Halo…
By Mike Fahey
