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Last.FM Coming To Xbox Live

Microsoft and Last.FM are making sweet, sweet music on the Xbox 360 this year, with the music listening and discovery service available free to Xbox Live Gold members. A relative surprise delivered as part of Microsoft’s 2009 E3 press conference, popular music community service Last. FM will be available as a free download for Xbox…

By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2009

How To Use Your 3G Phone To Connect To Xbox Live

If your house loses internet, or you’re taking your 360 on the road, connecting to Xbox Live can be a hassle. Oh, unless you have a 3G phone and follow this handy guide! It’ll show you how to configure your phone, a laptop and your 360, then use them to commandeer an AT&T 3G signal…

By Luke Plunkett Published May 26, 2009

Secret Of Monkey Island Special Edition Sails To 360?

Both a mysteriously disappearing German rating and sources close to Adventure Gamers seem to indicate that a special edition of The Secret of Monkey Island is on its way to the Xbox 360. We first caught wind of this via GamerBytes, who managed to snag a picture of the German listing before it was removed…

By Mike Fahey Published May 20, 2009

Game Controllers That Clean Your Filthy Hands

You know those shaped soaps at your mother’s house that no one is allowed to actually use? Here’s our version, courtesy of Etsy seller Digitalsoaps. Digitalsoaps offers our favorite video game weapons, lovingly recreated in the form of scented soap products. Take the green Xbox 360 controller above. Scented with Mountain Dew, it’s the most…

By Mike Fahey Published May 4, 2009

New Xbox App Helps Find Child Porn And Other “Illicit Hidden Materials”

A developer at Sam Houston State University has created XFT, a forensics tool designed to root out “illicit hidden materials,” including nefarious content like child pornography, buried on Xbox hard disks. According to a report from Discover, the forensics tool can unearth data stored on a modded Xbox, offering investigators “bit-for-bit information” similar to tools…

By Michael McWhertor Published May 1, 2009

Tart Up Your Xbox Media Centre With Some Skins

Despite dying off as a viable games machine a few years back, the Xbox is still good for something: the Xbox Media Centre. Problem is, the thing looks really boring. Lucky for any of you using the setup, there are ways to spruce things up a bit. Make the Media Centre a little easier on…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2009

Microsoft Sued Over Gay Bashing

According to a former employee of Lionhead Studios, being openly gay at a Microsoft-owned development studio can be just as bad as having an openly gay Xbox Live gamertag. Gay video game designer Jamie Durrant is suing Microsoft for £45,000 in ‘hurt feelings’ and lost pay, claiming discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. Durrant…

By Mike Fahey Published March 24, 2009

Fable Caused Burn Out, Game’s Developer Got Bad Ideas While Drinking

Making video games is no walk in the park. It’s hard. For those who worked in original Xbox role-playing-game Fable, it “destroyed lives”. In an interview with industry site Develop, Fable franchise designer Peter Molyneux explains just how bad it got during the creation of the first game: “If I’m honest, on Fable we just…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 17, 2009

Somebody Finally Made a 360 You Can Smoke Out Of

There it is. Somebody made a bong out of an Xbox 360. Not a PSP, not a DS, not a Wii, but a great, hulking 360. Let’s ignore the potential criminality of such a device and focus instead on the engineering. Something like this can’t have been easy. No, it’s taken planning, foresight, and a…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2009

US Xbox Service Ends A Calendar Day Before Japan’s

On March 3, Microsoft service repairs for the original Xbox ceases. The same happens for American users on March 2. While service repair ends, other technical support such as documents and content will be available to all customers. “If you have an original Xbox console that is in Warranty that requires a repair,” Microsoft stated,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 27, 2009

Red Xbox 360 Mentioned Officially By Microsoft

Whoops! In an official Halo Wars email sent to retailers and games press in New Zealand today, Microsoft make official mention of the rumoured red Xbox 360 Elite console. The email was to announce a deal whereby anyone buying a 360 console in NZ would, for a limited time, receive a free copy of Halo…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2009

Microsoft To Buy Motion-Sensing Company

Here we go again. Fresh off speculation Microsoft were working on a motion-sensing controller for current generation hardware, seems the company is now in talks to buy a firm specialising in motion-sensing tech. Israeli site Haaretz reports that the makers of the Xbox console are in talks to buy locally-based company 3DV for $35 million.…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2009

Xbox Originals Gets Grabbed By The Ghoulies Next Week

You know why the call them Xbox Originals? Because you can’t call ’em Xbox Classics. Case in point, Rare’s first Xbox title, Grabbed By The Ghoulies is your next Xbox Original. Oh, I kid, Rare! The UK developer’s debut game under the ownership of Microsoft will drop on the Xbox Live Marketplace next Tuesday, February…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 13, 2009

Dead Space Was Developed For Xbox

EA’s horror title Dead Space has had a long gestation period. The game was originally slated for the original Xbox. The above clip was shown during a presentation called “Creating Horror and Immersion with the Art of Dead Space” that was given by the game’s art director Ian Milham at this year’s Animex game and…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 13, 2009

No More Xbox Support For Japan

Starting March 3, Microsoft Japan will no longer service first generation original Xbox consoles (not Xbox 360s). This includes Xboxes that are under warranty as well as out-of-warranty consoles. Microsoft Japan, however, is offering an upgrade to those owners with still-under-warranty first generation Xbox consoles in need of repair: Swap that busted console for an…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 9, 2009

Xbox Helped Drone Pilot Be All He Could Be

A guy went from high school dropout to drone pilot instructor in the Army – not a position most 19-year-old enlisteds hold, by the way – thanks in part to his video game skills. In an interview, P.W. Singer, a former defense policy adviser to the Obama campaign, and the author of “Wired for War,”…

By Owen Good Published February 7, 2009

Xbox Murder Ringleader Seeks Retrial

Troy Victorino, the ringleader behind the Florida Xbox murders, says that the trial that ended in a death sentence for him wasn’t fair. His attorney Tuesday told the Florida Superme Court that Victorino should have been tried separately from co-defendants, who blamed the now 32-year-old, for their involvement. Victorino was convicted in 2006 on six…

By Brian Crecente Published February 4, 2009

“Bulk Of” Microsoft’s 1400 Job Cuts To Strike Entertainment Division

According to sources speaking with ZDNet’s resident Microsoft blogger, Mary-Jo Foley, “the bulk of [Microsoft’s] immediate 1,400-person cuts” are going to fall on the Entertainment & Devices Group. Which includes the Xbox team. We were told the same thing earlier today, and when contacted Microsoft PR issued the following statement: “This is a company-wide action,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 23, 2009

Obama Takes Office, Video Game Analogies Start To Flow

The Obama campaign, fresh off an inauguration, just ran face first into federally-mandated technological obsolescence and what better way to express their frustrations than with a video game analogy? “It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs. Can you imagine how blown…

By Brian Crecente Published January 22, 2009

Lights, Camera, Stoked Screens

This latest batch of screenshots from Destineer’s Stoked highlight what goes on behind the camera and in the editing booth once you’ve finished carving your name in the side of a mountain. The whole point of Stoked is to get yourself fame points in order to appear in snowboarding films and magazines, and these screenshots…

By Mike Fahey Published January 19, 2009