Everyone who’s owned an Xbox 360 for a period of time is probably at least somewhat familiar, perhaps even intimately familiar, with the dreaded red ring of death, or RRoD as it’s more commonly known. My first two Xbox 360s experienced that fate. The first one died after 6 months, but thankfully Costco’s liberal [...]
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The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting story today about two men from Brisbane who were arrested for allegedly running an offshore BitTorrent video sharing site.
According to the article:
Investigators allege the pair made $10,000 a month by managing an illegal offshore video sharing website with 400,000 international members, including thousands of "VIPs" who paid up [...]
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Review:
The Saints Row series is a clone of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto. Nonetheless, THQ did a great job making a fun game with the first Saints Row, and Saints Row 2 is a complete re-build of the entire game.
The first Saints Row was pretty glitch-y. You’d be driving along in a car, minding your [...]
Microsoft’s sales of Xbox 360 consoles beat Sony’s PlayStation 3 by a three-to-one margin during the Black Friday holiday shopping opener. Microsoft credited its low price point ($199.99 USD) and broad range of game titles as the reason for surge in Black Friday sales.
According to Microsoft:
Strong game sales rounded out a historic Black Friday [...]
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Review:
I never played the original Midnight Club Racing for the PS2, but I did play Need for Speed: Underground on the original XBOX. Anyone that’s played NFSU will recognize the similarities right away. I’m not sure which came first, the original Midnight Club or NFSU, but it seems to me that NFSU was the blueprint [...]