Tag: XBOX

Share Back in February, Microsoft announced that it planned to end Xbox LIVE support for its original console. Then, in March, the company offered some consolation prizes to loyal Xbox gamers. Now, the deadline has come and gone, but, naturally, a group of avid gamers has found a way to skirt the system. According to Eurogamer, about 20 gamers who were playing 'Halo 2' simply refrained from ...

Last month, we delivered the somber news that Microsoft will discontinue Xbox LIVE support for its original console and games. Come mid April, you won't be able to play 'Halo 2' online anymore. Rather than going out kicking and screaming, you might as well quietly accept Microsoft's virtual olive branch. According to Engadget, owners of the original Xbox console are eligible for a video game ...

For those video game traditionalists (or cheapskates, depending on how you look at it) who still proudly fire up a big, black Xbox console and play the first 'Halo' with their online friends, we have some bad news. According to a press release, Microsoft will discontinue Xbox LIVE service for all original consoles and games on April 15th (giving us yet another reason to hate that day. It's the ...

It's a good thing we don't get tired of hearing about dumb criminals, because the stories keep on coming. In the latest, a 22-year-old Bronx man was completely owned by an Xbox 360 (with a little help from its former owner, too). According to the New York Post, an unnamed kid whose console had been recently stolen noticed his Xbox Live ID become active while he was playing an online game on ...

Analysts have been torn when investigating the addictive properties of video games, but at least one lonely girlfriend believes the debatable affliction is indeed very real. Apparently, she also decided that the only remedy for her Xbox-distracted boyfriend was staging an abusive, hysterical, and repugnant intervention. The jilted woman actually filmed her violent ultimate solution, and, if the ...

It's official; people are playing video games more than ever before. Whether that's a good thing is an argument that will probably never end, but when the President speaks, people tend to listen. While speaking to the NAACP recently, President Barack Obama said it's high time we got to "putting away the Xbox." According to Game Politics, the remark was meant to encourage parents to become more ...

Amazon.com might still make most of its money by shipping physical items to your door, but it's clear that the online retail giant knows the future of media is digital -- not only is it pushing the Kindle and services like Amazon Video On Demand, it's expanding its downloadable video game catalog to include Xbox Live Arcade games today. The process seems a little clunky at the moment -- you buy ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/xbox/Red_Xbox_360_Resident_Evil_5_Edition'; Looks like that red Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 bundle wasn't just some tripped out figment of your imagination. Just moments ago, the package popped up for Xbox Live subscribers, detailing a handsome red Xbox 360 Elite with a 120GB hard drive, 'Resident Evil 5,' 'Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix,' and a few other ...

In the world of online games there is nobody so feared as the griefer. A griefer is someone who seems to enjoy playing online just for the joy of bringing others misery -- not by beating them at whatever game they're playing, but by being as annoying as possible, spewing profanity through voice chat or shooting teammates' characters. Now griefers with a bit of hacking know-how have a new tool at ...

Nineteen-year-old Codey R. Hawks of Parma, Ohio has been arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old boy after meeting him via Xbox online live. On January 15, according to Cleveland's NBC affiliate, Hawks allegedly traveled to the boy's residence in Michigan, staying there with him for some time. Having been arrested Monday and charged with rape and sexual imposition, Hawks is currently being ...

You think you're awesome because you faked your own kidnapping for a Wii? Or because you hired a hitman to take out your parents after they took away your PlayStation? And you, the cretin who killed his mom over 'Halo,' you must think you're the freakin' man. Well, move over video game idiots, there is a new celebrity on the block. Zachary Moir slapped his mom after she unplugged his Xbox. ...

Steve Ballmer took the stage to give the pre-CES keynote yesterday and unveiled a long list of updates and features coming to Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, the Windows Live family of products, and Xbox. For the sake of simplicity, we've boiled them down into a series bullet points of what to look out for from Microsoft in the coming year. The long and the short of it is that Ballmer barely ...

Some Xbox 360 mods are the product of serious craftsmanship, some are rather silly, and some -- like this Suzuki automobile console / Xbox 360 game console hybrid -- really give one pause. This isn't the sort of thing that one spends moments / hours / weeks on, after which he reflects for a moment ("Aren't I rather clever?"), and then hides it safely in the closet (or sells it on eBay). No, this ...

A new report from Fudzilla claims that Microsoft is getting ready to lay off 15,000 employees, or about 17-percent of its worldwide staff. The axe will apparently fall on January 15th, exactly one week before its second quarter earnings report, and they expect MSN division to be hit hardest, while the successful Xbox crew will probably make it out relatively unscathed. Meanwhile, an anonymous ...

People will go to great lengths to steal your gear -- no big surprise there. In a nice, semi-ingenious twist, though, one Xbox 360 thief on campus at Missouri State has gotten caught by the dupe himself. Thievery victim Ryan Kestenbaum was able to connect the controller (which the crook had left behind) up to the console, which of course meant that it was nearby. He then went on a fantastic ...