There's hardly a hardcore gamer alive who hasn't heard of the Red Ring of Death (RRoD), and its potential to inexplicably turn an Xbox 360 game console into a $300 doorstop. But though a multi-year investigation by journalist Dean Takahashi strongly suggests that the RRoD is the result of botched design decisions at Microsoft HQ [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 29, 2008
Finally, the first Jasper-based Xbox 360s have appeared on the market. The newest model of 360, Jasper is Microsoft’s big try of finally ending the RRoD issue, and quieting all of the Sony fanboys who still won’t let us forget about it. So what makes it different, and why might it work? To put it in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 8, 2008
On December 2nd, 2005, a scant 10 days after the Xbox 360 arrived at retail, a Chicago resident by the name of Robert E. Byers filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft in district court. Alleging serious component defects in the new video game system, Byers claimed that Microsoft was knowingly shipping defective consoles. "In its [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 12, 2008
With today's news that Microsoft's Shane Kim and Phil Spencer have been promoted in the wake of marketing VP Jeff Bell's departure, Next-Gen has an interview with the two about the future of the Xbox 360. Spencer and Kim make some upbeat promises for the system -- Gears of War 2 will be "huge." Fable [...]
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