Xbox 360 Warranty Extended To A Year
(via Xbox Today) - by Mark Renton Microsoft has given a huge Christmas gift to 360 gamers -- an extention of the original 90 days to a full 365 days. Those days of weeping at three rings of death at the 91 day mark are a thing of the past. Even better news is that the company will be retroactively reimbursing consumers who have already shelled out money for repairs.
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Gears of War Xbox 360 Review - An Epic 3rd Person Shooter
(via Xbox Solutions) - Months prior to release, many were dubbing Gears of War as Halo for the Xbox 360, the killer app for the holiday season. Yes, Cliff Bleszinski’s labor of love had reached an unprecedented level of hype. From specials on MTV to Cliffy himself kicking off Microsoft’s E3 press conference with a demo of the game, there was no avoiding Gears of War and its inevitable release a.
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Lost Planet Sells 20,000 Units in Japan
(via Planet Xbox) -- Japanese developer Capcom let their home market get access to the very hot, yet very cold new Lost Planet, and 20,000 Japanese consumers jumped on the deal in the first day.  Is that good or bad?
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Lost Planet sells 20.000 copies in Japan on first day
(via News4Gamers) - Since yesterday another high-anticipated game has hit the Japanese stores; Lost Planet. Today the first salesfigures have been revealed, saying that the game sold a little more than 20.000 copies on the first day. Although it is absolutely no bad result for a first day, it just seems that Microsoft can't do anything good in the Japanese eyes.
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Win an Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player
(via Totally 360) -- One lucky winner will win a brand new HD-DVD player...
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Splinter Cell Double Agent Heading to PS3
(via 1Up) -- Sam Fisher loves him some next-gen.
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Viva Pinata Xbox 360 Review - Game for All Ages
(via Xbox Solutions) - When Rare announced that they were parting ways with Nintendo, it caused shock waves throughout the gaming world. Let’s face facts, when the creators of Golden Eye and other huge hits decides to leave, it makes news. Then Rare made even more news when they announced that their first game without Nintendo would be for the Xbox family.
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Burger King Sells Over 2 Million Games
(via Totally 360) -- Gamers quickly gobble up a whopper with a side of some BK games...
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New CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra Plays HD-DVDs and Blu-ray Discs
(via Xbox Scene) - CyberLink launched a new version of their PowerDVD Ultra video playback software for Windows that has now support for HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies. As far as I know this is the first commercially available English software to playback these HD discs (InterVideo's WinDVD 8 did, but only the Japanese version for some reason).
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Today's hottest game video: XFPS demo
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Hacks, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, BusinessToday's most-watched YouTube game video showcases the XFPS adapter on the Xbox 360. This dongle lets you use USB or PS/2 mice and keyboards to control Xbox 360 games. (It also works with a PS2 controller, but we don't see the draw to use that gamepad over the standard Xbox 360 controller.
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Team Xtender's XFPS 360 in action
(via Engadget) - Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals While product announcements are certainly thrilling at times, there's really nothing better than getting some live action video to spy before you buy. We've seen Wowwee's FlyTech Dragonfly buzzing around T3's headquarters, and we've witnessed Doom being played on an OLPC XO, but now we've got several videos showing Team Xtender's XFPS 360 doing its thang.
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Trailer: Battlestations: Midway Walkthrough
(via 360 Monster) -- A walkthrough trailer for Battlestations: Midway has been released on the Xbox Live Marketplace today.
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New Video Content Hits XBL Marketplace
(via 1Up) -- Because everyone wants to watch Reno 911 on their 360.
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Forza BioShock Website
(via IGN) -- BioShock (X360)2K launches website with Italian language options for upcoming shooter/RPG game. New images!
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DS Rules Japanese Hardware Sales, Too
(via Kotaku) - The full Media Create sales charts have gone live, which includes hardware sales and the top 50 games sold in Japan for the week of December 11th - 17th. First let's take a look at the important hardware sales. - Nintendo DS - 319,708 - Wii - 108,237 - PlayStation 3 - 70,942 - PSP - 48,962 - PlayStation 2 - 37,730 - Xbox 360 - 17,168 Almost 320,000 Nintendo DS units sold in one week? Amazing.
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Video of XFPS: KB and mouse on 360
(via Xbox 360 Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Peripherals We ran a story about Team Xtender's XFPS the other day and received some pretty strong reactions. People have mixed feelings about these adapters, which allow the use of a keyboard and mouse on the Xbox 360. On the one hand, you have PC faithful who would love to recreate their favorite control schemes on the 360.
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Merry Christmas from GamesIndustry.biz
(via Game Industry) -- GamesIndustry.bizwould like to wish all our readers a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
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Santa Claus Is Coming to LEGO Star Wars II
(via IGN) -- LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (X360)LucasArts hits us with one of the best PR emails of the year.
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SC Double Agent PS3 To Have Exclusive Content For UK Launch
(via Gamer Reports) - According to CVG, when the Playstation 3 launches in the UK, one of the titles that will debut along with the console will be Sam Fisher's latest outing, SC Double Agent. The game will not simply be a re-hash of the Xbox360 version though, according to CVG the game will feature specific PS3-only content to help PS3 users feel the game is worth buying on the Sony unit.
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GameSpy&apos s Editors Chime Off on i Virtua Fighter 5 /i
(via Game Spy) -- Virtua Fighter 5 (X360)What impact does Sega's announcement have on the industry? We sound off!
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Halo 3 Video Documentary: Et Tu Brute
(via On10) - This video went up a few days ago onto the marketplace, but here it is for those of you that don't have a 360 or just would rather see it on your PC/Zune/iPod/PSP...Here is the official description (from Major Nelson's post):"In the second Bungie “Vidoc” we take a long hard look at the ferocious new antagonist for Master Chief, the Brute.
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Guitar Hero lawsuit settled out of court
(via QJ) - GamesIndustry reports that RedOctane, Activision, and peripherals manufacturer The Ant Commandos have settled that Guitar Hero lawsuit that was initiated in August last year.If you guys remember, the suit accused The Ant Commandos of copyright infringement over Guitar Hero controllers.
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New Video Marketplace Content
(via News4Gamers) - The following content is now available on the Xbox Live Video Marketplace (U.S. only): TV Star Trek: TOS Season 2 (4 episodes in HD) UFC's The Ultimate Fighter Season 1 UFC - 5 new fights 8th and Ocean - Season 1 Reno 911 - Season 2 Jackass Gumball Rally first season of ‘The Flintstones’ and ‘The Jetsons.
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Oblivion: Mehrunes Razor Free
(via Major Nelson) - Looking for a reason to return to Cyrodiil for the Holidays? How about a a free expansion pack? Bethesda is giving away* one of their most popular downloads for Oblivion – ‘Mehrunes Razor’ – for a limited period of time. Starting today, you can download Mehrunes Razor for free.
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i Dark Sector /i
(via Game Spy) -- Dark Sector (X360)Digital Extremes' sci-fi action title steps out of the shadows for the first time.
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Microsoft extends Xbox 360 warranty to one year, covering most bricked consoles
(via Engadget) - Filed under: GamingSorry Microsoft, hate to be back seat CEOs here, but we really think it might behoove you to actually do the right thing from the start one of these days. We're all proud of you for finally patching things up for your consumers in these recent Xbox problems, but why is it so important that you wait for a class action lawsuit and/or heated public outcry before you come around? Just saying is all.
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Xbox 360 warranty extended, repairs refunded
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360Microsoft is extending the Xbox 360's manufacturer's warranty in North America from a puny (and competitively unimpressive) 90-days to the more reasonable (and competitive) one year. What spurred this holiday generosity? Perhaps it was Sony and Nintendo's one year warranties (don't forget to register to get a free 90-day bonus from Ninty)? Or perhaps old man Gates was visited by three ghosts in the night?Regardless, they're making right by their customers who've already had their console repaired by making the offer retroactive.
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N'gai Croal on Michael Pachter: Xbox and PS3 sales
(via QJ) - Pachter's a pretty stand-up guy. He's the type who knows that he's in a position where he can say things and people will listen to him - and boy does he say things. Pachter's got cred - analyst, money-wise, business-y cred. N'gai Croal on the other hand, has a nice mix of journalistic and gamer credibility.
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Japanese hardware sales, 11 Dec - 17 Dec: Christmas courtesy edition
(via Joystiq) - Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360Ah, what a jolly time of year it is. In fact, it's the only time of year when the use of the word "jolly" doesn't result in someone coming across as a complete imbecile.
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Halo Q& A with Bungie’ s Frankie
(via Xboxic) - About a month ago, XCN websites, where Xboxic is part of, were asked to come up with a bunch of questions to ask Frank O Connor, the Content Manager at Bungie Studios. The most interesting questions where compiled and then forwarded to ‘Frankie’. The interview is officially about Halo’s 5 year anniversary but thankfully most [.
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