Avatar fashion selection to double in a few months

From Avatar fashion selection to double in a few months
Avatar fashion selection to double in a few months
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If you’ve started the Avatar creation process and found the clothing options in your Avatar Closet to be lacking in terms of variety, know that more apparel is headed your way in the weeks to come.

We [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 19th, 2008

Gears 2 is the new king of Xbox Live

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Gears 2 is the new king of Xbox Live
Filed under: News, Gears of War 2

After a much too intense (and admittedly repetitive) weekly brawl between Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, where each fought for Xbox Live supremacy, we are proud to bring you news [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 19th, 2008

The New Xbox Experience: What do you think?

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The New Xbox Experience: What do you think?
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Let’s make this simple. If you have an Xbox 360 and you connected to Xbox Live today, you should have the New Xbox Experience. Assuming you do, you’ve hopefully had some time to fiddle around with it. [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 19th, 2008

NXE Netflix activation not working for some

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NXE Netflix activation not working for some
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It looks like the the bad Netflix karma has struck again as we’re hearing reports that some gamers cannot get the New Xbox Experience enabled Netflix to work. According to reports, the Netflix activation code the 360 spits out isn’t [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 19th, 2008

Fanswag: Win Left 4 Dead inspired zombie-wear

From Fanswag: Win Left 4 Dead inspired zombie-wear
Fanswag: Win Left 4 Dead inspired zombie-wear
Filed under: Contests and Giveaways, Left 4 Dead

To celebrate the release of the zombieified Left 4 Dead, we figured we’d offer the fanboy community some stylish new zombie-killing threads. So, we partnered with our friends over at Threadless to give away a [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 19th, 2008

Reminder: NXE releases early this morning

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Reminder: NXE releases early this morning
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We’re mere hours away from the public release of the biggest and newest Xbox 360 dashboard update, the New Xbox Experience. The dashboard update will start releasing at 5:00AM eastern (2:00AM pacific) when everyone connected to Xbox Live will be prompted to [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 19th, 2008

Sony blocks entire Netflix movie library from streaming to the Xbox 360

From Sony blocks entire Netflix movie library from streaming to the Xbox 360
Sony blocks entire Netflix movie library from streaming to the Xbox 360
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In an attempt to foil Microsoft’s plans of a flawless NXE Netflix launch, Columbia Pictures (a studio that’s owned by Sony) has made sure that its entire Netflix movie catalog [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 19th, 2008

Gears of War 2’s ranking system explained

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Gears of War 2’s ranking system explained
Filed under: News, Gears of War 2
After hearing about gamers’ anger and general confusion surrounding Gears of War 2’s online ranking system, team Epic has come to the rescue by explaining how the whole ranking thing works.
According to Gears community manager SixOkay, [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 19th, 2008

Ask X3F: Splitting screens edition

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Ask X3F: Splitting screens edition
Filed under: X3F Features

Welcome to another exciting edition of Ask X3F, where readers ask the questions and we put on an air of a pompous know-it-all. This week, we discuss hard drive issues, immature gamers (again), dismemberment and online splitscreen games. We also take somewhat of [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 19th, 2008

Lips commercial dares you to look away

From Lips commercial dares you to look away
Lips commercial dares you to look away
Filed under: News

Okay, so Joystiq posted a commercial for Microsoft’s new karaoke title Lips. We’ve watched it and now we need to pass it on to you. Just like the tape from The Ring, we get the feeling that passing this video [...]

No Comments »Filed under: XBox 360Posted on November 18th, 2008