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Xbox Live

There is so much you can do on Xbox Live, including but not limited to downloading old arcade games for a quick play or demos of new releases. You can also download trailers of blockbuster films. A neat touch is how you can be playing a game and receive notification one of your friends has logged on. At the push of a button you can invite that friend to play against you or join his/her game.

You can also chat to each other over a headset both when you are playing and even if you're not. Third party sup...more

Don't Let Those Dreaded Red Rings Of Death Stop Your Gaming - Fix Your Xbox 360 In 1 Hour Or Less

... of death.

Microsoft said the failure rate (i.e. red light errors) was only 5%. Retailers were however reporting failure rates as high as 30%! While Microsoft never changed this figure, they did say the first 11.6 million consoles sold had a 'flaw' that could cause them to fail. I think its pretty obvious this 'flaw' was the shrunken LSI heat sink.

The fall 2006 update caused some Xbox 360s to boot only the screen of death.

All the bad stuff aside, how can I profit from red rings of death?

If you learn to fix red light error Xbox 360s (see below) you can buy them cheap on eBay. You can find some consoles selling for $60 because people don't know how to fix it so they just want to sell it. You can buy it, fix it, then resell it for $200. You could also just keep it for yourself.<...more

Fix Your Xbox By Yourself

...receive errors on his brand new, nearly $400 system. I was so aggravated and thought I was alone and had bought a bad system from the supplier. Come to find out it wasn't just me all of the new Xbox's were having errors. So I followed the directions sent my system in, two weeks later got it back and it was working just fine. But let me just tell you, two wee...more

game Consoles

...om the first generation of game consoles to the current seventh generation has been plagued by video game crashes and market slowdown, the gaming industry have always come up with ground breaking games and technologies to overcome the gloom of the market. For example, during the video game crash of 1977, almost all game consoles developer and manufacturer withdrew from business when Atari came up with Space Invaders. The game was an instant hit. Space Invader became so popular that most of...more

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