The dreaded RROD (Red Ring of Death) has hit my XBOX 360 console. A few months back I experieced the disc unreadable error while playing Mass Effect. The error was quite annoying as it happened at key parts of the game where I didn’t have a checkpoint to revert to. However, I could take the [...]
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Aug 24 2008
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (SW: TFU) has a demo up on the XBOX Live and I grabbed it today to check out the gameplay for myself. The game was previewed some time ago with spectacular force powers. It also has particle and physics technologies like DMM and Havoc which are said to heighten the [...]
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Mar 30 2008
Call it a Mulligan
Well darn it, I died again. In the little gaming time that I get these days I’ve been slowly traversing the massive world of Mass Effect. Without giving any of the plot away, I’m on the planet of Noveria and have essentially been stuck at the pivotal part of the game for the past couple [...]
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Feb 15 2008
Death of HD DVD
The battle of the next-gen format between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray might be finally coming to an end. My XBOX 360 has the optional HD-DVD accessory and I chose not to get it for the fact that I don’t own that many movies and it sure would be a shame to buy either system until the [...]
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Jul 09 2007
Sony PS3 Price Drop
Sony has cut the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100, or 17 percent, in the United States, a move that should boost the video game console’s lackluster sales. The PlayStation 3, which includes a 60-gigabyte hard drive and a Blu-ray high-definition DVD player, will now cost $500, or $20 more than the most expensive [...]
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May 15 2007
Classic Gaming Goodness
I have fond memories of playing the original Prince of Persia on my PC in the early 90′s and enjoyed it immensely. The games involved some hair-raising moments and a fun game play. The newer 3D iteration of the game, in my opinion, were no where near the hits that the original was. The graphics [...]
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Mar 28 2007
XBOX 360 Elite
After quite a lot of speculation and rumor mongering, the XBOX 360 Elite has been announced by Microsoft. The basic summary of changes include a console in black, a HDMI port, 120 GB hard drive, but still no official word on the small 65nm processor which supposedly runs cooler. The only “upgrade” here that I [...]
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Oct 31 2006
Dashboard Update
The XBOX 360 is getting another dashboard update today. Features included in this update include support for 1080P video modes, HD DVD player support, play videos from CD/DVD disks, and whole slew of video upgrades. #
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Oct 27 2006
Rainbow 6 Vegas
I got a chance to play the Rainbow 6 Vegas demo last night. This demo hasn’t been released in the US yet due to some exclusive deal with OXM so you will have to the trick of I talked about here to get your hands on the demo. I already own G.R.A.W and found that [...]
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