Review: Xbox 360 Diving Into Living Rooms

With enough hardware horsepower to deliver movie-like graphics and high-quality sound, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 is setting a new standard for video games. But the console isn't just about shoot-'em-ups and virtual sports.

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December 9th at 10:00pm "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Bono and The Edge" Elvis Costello conducts an intimate and revealing conversation with U2's Bono and The Edge.

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Has your XBOX 360 died with the Red Ring of Death? Would you like to play your XBOX 360 again? Well now you can!You could be playing your games again in less than an hour! Or you could just repair your XBOX 360 and sell it on eBay for some extra cash.

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Nintendo's archrivals, Microsoft and Sony, are poised to release their own motion-sensing devices in 2010, with Microsoft having the best chance to out-Wii the Wii.

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I just love these guys.....

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PC rumor mill started to catch on fire earlier this afternoon with info that Gears of War 2, the critically and commercially acclaimed title from Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios.

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Microsoft has made a bold play by announcing a 'controller free' Xbox experience called 'Project Natal' using full body motion capture and voice recognition offering a jaw-dropping concpet of the future.

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Now instead of actually riding a skateboard/snowboard you can stand on one in front of your television screen.

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British site Rapid TV News claims that BSkyB (or Sky, as it's more commonly known), the UK's biggest pay TV provider, will announce tomorrow a deal linking its subscription TV services with Microsoft's console.

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Sony's always said the PS3 would be their gaming platform for a decade, but SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) boss David Reeves said he doesn't know if it'll go 8, 9 or 10 years. Not sure this matters, those dates being so far out, but several things come to mind.

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Upcoming patches will provide Far Cry 2 with a new "Hardcore" mode. The hardcore mode will be a setting in the multiplayer options that will allow for a more "realistic" experience.

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When Halo 3: ODST ships later this year it will contain all of the all ready released and to be released maps, this includes; The Heroic Map Pack The Legendary Map Pack Cold Storage The Mythic Map Pack

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Rare developer and avatars designer, Dale Murchie, said, "User-generated content is a huge area that would not have been done any justice if we had tried to cram it into the launch release of this project," while talking to VG247.

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When Axl Rose was asked whether Chinese Democracy, Guns N' Roses' new album, was coming to Guitar Hero or Rock Band he responded; There is talk about a "Rock Band" release, [and] it's my understanding they were very enthusiastic.

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In an interview with IGN, Brian Jarrard said that Halo 3: ODST will be the final peice of the Halo 3 pie;

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If you've read the Digital Home for the past two years, you probably know that I hold a special place in my heart for Sega. I was always a heavy Genesis user and subsequent to that, I owned every console Sega released. That's precisely why a report from Siliconera has me excited.

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Robert Bowling, fourzerotwo on Twitter.com, posted a tweet saying,"Reviewing some radio-chatter VO we just finished recording for Modern Warfare 2 today.

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Street Fighter IV isn't out yet but Capcom is all ready planning on what they're going to sell you after you buy the game. One of the DLC packs that appears to be free is the Championship Mode Expansion Pack which will include;

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The demo for the Halo RTS, Halo Wars, is up or down for the downloading on Xbox Live.

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The GTA IV DLC, Lost and Damned, is going to have quite a few new tracks from famous rappers like Funkmaster Flex. More interestingly, however, is that Busta Rhymes is debuting a song called "Conglomerate" via the DLC.

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The Fable 2 map has finally been released online and it's a whopping 40MB tiff file.

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Red Dead Redemption is a prequel to the Rockstar title, Red Dead Revolver. Not much has been said at this point but we have some screens and Sam Houser is impressed by it;

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In the newest issue of the popular Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu resides news of the Street Fighter IV DLC. Specifically the costume DLC. According to Famitsu each of the costume packs is just a little bit more expensive on the Xbox 360 versions of the DLC.

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Just like Mirror's Edge and Dead Space, Left 4 Dead and Rock Band 2 have sold over 1 million copies. Left 4 Dead sold 1.8 million copies while Rock Band 2 sold 1.9 million said EA at yesterdays press conference.

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Mass Effect 2 and Battlefield Bad Company are two games which will be receiving sequels in the first three months of 2010. Riccitiello also said that Mass Effect 2 will arrive on multiple platforms leading people to speculate on whether we will see a PS3 release of Mass Effect 2.

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Mirror's Edge and Dead Space were both new IPs last year, and both from EA. Now both have them have managed to sell 1million copies. While Dead Space was very well received critically, Mirror's Edge wasn't as much. It was a very polarizing game, to say the least.

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