Those of you who have never lived in the British Isles can’t really lay claim to having experienced it, but public television sucks. I don’t mean PBS. I don’t mean Sesame Street or 3-2-1 Contact. I mean public television: the idea that the government directly taxes you for merely owning a television set....
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Microsoft is in the spotlight again this week due to a recent dashboard update which rendered third-party memory cards useless in the Xbox 360. Peripherals manufacturer Datel is one of the big losers as it offers alternative memory products that are both cheaper and higher capacity than the official products. The company’s response...
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You had to know someone out there would try and profit off Microsoft's recent mass bannination of modded Xbox 360 consoles from Xbox Live, and although the eBay scammers arguably got there first, we're awarding the style trophy to AbingtonIP, an Oklahoma law firm that's trying to gin up a class-action lawsuit. Why?...
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Puzzle Quest has long been a dapper little fantasy puzzle game favorite. Launching first on the Xbox 360, the game — which perfectly melded the gameplay of a PopCap-style jewel matching game like Bejeweled with the trappings of a fantasy role playing game — has successfully sprouted to a legion of other systems,...
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Last week Microsoft finally released a Wireless-N adaptor for the Xbox 360. You can now get 802.11n support for your 360 console, but it will cost you an extortionate $100. Before you decide to not buy those two games you wanted this month, and upgrade your wireless connection instead, be aware there is...
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With Yuletide comes inevitable speculation about Santa Claus’ reality bending powers. Certainly, he’s telekinetic, capable of levitating a half ton sleigh and nine, doubtlessly terrified reindeer in the air while he zooms around the world. The sheer volume of work he performs every Christmas Eve is positively superhuman, which also implies some sort...
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These days, you can get a new Xbox 360 pretty cheap, but if $199 is too pricey for you, this is your lucky week: if you check your local branch of the popular online selling site Craigslist, you’ll likely see an absolute glut of cheap Xbox 360s for sale, some going for as...
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Racing game fans have a reason to consider investing in a new system sporting a Core i7 processor this week. Codemasters has released the minimum and recommended system requirements for its forthcoming Dirt 2 game. As you’d expect the recommended requirements are quite high, but this is the first game I’ve seen mentioning...
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Ever since this year’s E3 exposition, Microsoft has been promising social networking integration with Xbox Live in a future dashboard update. A few weeks ago, the first betas of that new update were rolled out to select Xbox Live testers, but now we have a date when it’ll be coming to everybody: November...
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GameStop has been dropping hints about its digital download plans for a little while now, but it looks to have done its most extensive and official talking about the matter yet at the recent BMO Capital Management Digital Entertainment conference, where it confirmed that it will start testing the program "early next year"...
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