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Date: Mon, 17. August 2009 15:04:45

The next installment of Microsoft's flagship racing franchise won't offer any clunkers. When "Forza Motorsport 3" is released for the Xbox 360 in October, the latest edition of the popular driving simulator will feature hundreds of high-end cars. Since debuting on the original Xbox in 2005, the "Forza" games have thrust players inside virtual vehicles meticulously modeled after real rides, ...

Date: Mon, 14. July 2008 21:26:19

Aha, now we know why Microsoft added all that extra hard disk space: for Netflix video streaming. Not really, though, since it's streaming video it likely isn't going to take all that additional hard drive space. However, the Xbox 360 is getting access to Netflix, coming in "late fall." Yes, you're going to have to wait until then for the necessary update to turn your Xbox 360 into the equivalent of a Roku box.

Date: Fri, 9. October 2009 03:07:04

darthcamaro writes "Windows isn't the only piece of Microsoft technology that hackers are attacking anymore. During a presentation at the SecTor security conference in Toronto, a Facetime security researcher revealed numerous methods by which Xbox users are being hacked today. 'Though the Xbox doesn't have the number one market share, it is the top target for hackers,' Boyd said. 'Xbox Live has 17 million plus subscribers, and that service requires payment.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/08/150252/Hackers-Targeting-Xbox-Live?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/08/150252"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/10/08/150252/Hackers-Targeting-Xbox-Live?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mmaOdZl-lGjhDJOzi030MjarHgY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mmaOdZl-lGjhDJOzi030MjarHgY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mmaOdZl-lGjhDJOzi030MjarHgY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mmaOdZl-lGjhDJOzi030MjarHgY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/gVg3mkPZExE" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 17. August 2011 03:23:04

Digital Trends - Announced during the Gamescom conference this week, Microsoft previewed a series of new mobile games for the Windows phone platform as well as a series of updates for Xbox Live that are packaged in the next release of the operating system, Mango. Avatar Awardables are one of the upgrades to Xbox Live. Players will be able to earn wearable items for avatars and have a visual representation of bragging rights for tough achievements.

Date: Fri, 28. May 2010 15:08:07

Xistic writes with news that the XB in XBMC won't mean Xbox any more. Quoting the project's own website: "The last official release for the XBOX by the XBMC team was Atlantis, over 18 months ago. Since then, one brave soul (Arnova) has been merging code from the main codebase into the XBOX branch in our repository. Because there were many users out there that took advantage of these updates, we had no problem with this. But times have changed. The XBOX has hard limits for what it can handle. Some users are satisfied with these limits, and we encourage them to use XBMC there if they are happy. But it is a popular misconception that official XBOX development is still taking place by the team, so we have decided to set it free. We have enough on our plates already, and worrying about a deprecated platform just increases our workload. A few days ago the XBOX branch was finally removed from our subversion repository."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F05%2F28%2F043243%2FXBMC-Discontinues-Xbox-Support" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=XBMC+Discontinues+Xbox+Support%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fcb51ld" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/043243/XBMC-Discontinues-Xbox-Support?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1667646amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LhJPrpCfX7KbYkBI9vaFjD-YME0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LhJPrpCfX7KbYkBI9vaFjD-YME0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LhJPrpCfX7KbYkBI9vaFjD-YME0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LhJPrpCfX7KbYkBI9vaFjD-YME0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ATSoGyHJbFQ" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 4. September 2008 18:53:18

Microsoft is cutting the price of its Xbox 360 game console. The base model will sell for $199, making it cheaper than the $249 Nintendo Wii.

Date: Fri, 16. May 2008 12:22:28

USATODAY.com - In making Grand Theft Auto IV the top selling game of April, despite its only being in stores five days, consumers opted for the Microsoft Xbox 360 version at a rate of almost two-to-one. The Xbox 360 version of GTA IV sold 1.85 million copies, according to market tracking firm The NPD Group. The Sony PlayStation 3 version sold 1 million copies, taking the month's No. 3 spot.

Date: Thu, 24. July 2008 17:48:30

The open season on openness has reached the video game console. Microsoft is now creating a method for almost anyone to write and sell games for its Xbox 360 machines.

Date: Mon, 14. February 2011 18:58:19

In a sneak peek video, Microsoft shows how it plans to bring its Windows Phone 7 devices together with its Xbox 360 Kinect motion controller.

Date: Tue, 6. January 2009 02:32:55

Reuters - Microsoft Corp sold 28 million units worldwide of its Xbox 360 video game console through the end of 2008, expanding the Xbox's lead over rival Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 console in worldwide unit sales, the company said on Monday.