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Proof: $199 360 Arcade and a price cut on Sept 7th {Xbox 360 Fanboy}
Aug 3rd 2008 9:28PM I don't think the Arcade SKU should ever get scrapped. Speaking as an early adopting gamer and media center fan that bought premium 360 and have recently taken the 120gb plunge (sure it was expensive but if you look around you can find some pretty good deals), the prospect of this low price SKU becoming a cheap ass media center extender as well as a gaming machine to boot for the parents or kids bedroom makes this a possitively droolworthy option for people like me. Just lock and load the old 20gb drive (that's currently a paperweight) onto the newly bought Arcade system and your ready to rock. Sure I would love too go and buy an Elite but that's just a little hard justifying spending that much and that would still result in me having a spare 20gb drive.
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Proof: $199 360 Arcade and a price cut on Sept 7th {Xbox 360 Fanboy}
Aug 3rd 2008 9:22PM I don't think the Arcade SKU should ever get scrapped. Speaking as an early adopting gamer and media center fan that bought premium 360 and have recently taken the 120gb plunge (sure it was expensive but if you look around you can find some pretty good deals), the prospect of this low price SKU becoming a cheap ass media center extender as well as a gaming machine to boot for the parents or kids bedroom makes this a possitively droolworthy option for people like me. Just lock and load the old 20gb drive (that's currently a paperweight) onto the newly bought Arcade system and your ready to rock. Sure I would love too go and buy an Elite but that's just a little hard justifying spending that much and that would still result in me having a spare 20gb drive.
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Xbox 360's overhauled Dashboard: the gallery {Engadget}
Jul 15th 2008 4:55AM Oh dear.
Sony must be laughing their ass off.
Don't get me wrong - I love my 360 but I have been looking at these Mii ripoffs all day and I gotta say even though I love Rare's work it's allready starting to shit me. It could be the oh so bland Grey backgroud swaying me but I dont think I'm going to enjoy this UI update. I am still open to avatars and although Home has been delayed on the PS3 I think Sony are probobly on the right track by choosing a level of realism and environments that back up their grapical claims. This move by MS may just shift the public perception of the 360 in line with the Wii as a kiddie/family console while clearing the air for PS3 (so to speak) too push exclusivly to the hard core gamer demographic. Interesting. Then again if I were in charge of the 360 division and was told from on high to claw back market share copying a console that is selling as fast as a Wii is not too hard to comprehend.
Let's just hope a lot more gets added in the coming weeks/months such as a web browser and MKV playback wouldn't go ass-tray.
I would go and buy an arcade system straight away for me and the wife to enjoy in the comfort of our own bed. Bung on the 20gb drive thats been a paper weight since upgrading to 120gb, grab my sons "spare" controller and it's fun times ahead.
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Sapphire Technologies demoes new 3D monitors and drivers at Computex {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2008 11:42PM For all those out there that insist on glasses free 3d get over it and put the god damn glasses on. It's kinda like saying yeah I like that car but can you loose the wheels because I WANT MY HOVER CAR NOW GOD DAMMIT. It just aint possible just yet (for more than one user anyway). So what if you look like a nerd, guess what, if your reading this here blog I got some news for ya, you are probably allready one. The benifit of using this technique over neary all of the other ones is that non electronic glasses and therefore lighter cheaper can be used. This means that if it takes off perhaps a little more resources could go into the design aspect making them a little more attractive for all you fickle nerds out there. Also the best part is that a large group of people can watch the same display using these cheaper specs - something every autostereoscopic display currently lacks at the moment.
So yeah glasses up boys and girls. Porn will never look so good.
You will love it beleive me.
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Tabulator: Xbox Live Video Marketplace vs. Apple TV {Joystiq}
Jan 17th 2008 12:03AM dude you should use google more. Google is your friend.
Ears-on with PSP Skype {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2008 6:58PM OK this is getting stupid. For the amount of reporters at CES covering this particular news about Skype coming to the PSP it's astounding that they can't seem to ask the question of will Skype support Video (and audio)via the PSP Go!Cam? Come on do your job. Stop the backslapping and grow some journalistic balls. Dont just let the Sony PR team rabbit on. My gut feeling is that it does not, if this is the case ask them WHEN it will. This would be huge seeing as it would transform our families little black under-used handheld into a roamable communications video conferenceing powerhouse.
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A year in Xbox 360 failures: 2007 Edition {Joystiq}
Jan 2nd 2008 11:34AM Just got the RROD on Boxng day. Got 3 red lights about a year ago when we took our 360 on Xmas holiday's but seemed to get over it when we brought it home. Now it's a quick flash of four red lights then three. Dang it. Luckly I sneeked a few nights a week ago of Halo 3 - my xmas present. He He. My son is feeling it the worst seen as he had just gotten into the orange box. So I got it for him on the PC today. Can wait for the wait. I wish I bought from EB over here in Australia. Aparently they swap 360's on the spot.
Bah.
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Criterion (cockily) responds to Burnout Paradise criticisms {Joystiq}
Dec 24th 2007 11:35AM My girlfriend loves Burnout Revenge. LOVES. In fact it the reason I have an xbox 360 (well officially my son does). She absolutley hates the new gameplay. I tried to stick up for it abit and encouraged her to try and get used to it but she has had enough and pretty much banned the house of ever talking about it again. Looking back at the times I have played the demo I gotta say I starting to side with her. Shit - load screens? Since when have they become taboo? I just played portal pretty much all they way through with heaps of load screens but the game kicks ass so I coudn't care less. In fact it lets my brain get have moment to recover.
Paradise looks fucking cool no doubt but I think they overcooked this xmas turkey.
Correction : They didn't even have it ready Xmas. What the fuck is that about ????
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Steorn Orbo: canceled {Engadget}
Jul 6th 2007 6:17PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_dream
Video: Call of Duty 4 3D screenshot {Xbox 360 Fanboy}
May 8th 2007 12:37PM Hey guys try this out. Grab a pair of sunglasses and place one of the lenses over your left eye only while you watch this clip. It will trick your brain into seeing it in 3d, like stereoscopic 3D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulfrich_effect
