Entries Categorized as 'xbox'

Xbox Video Marketplace – mixed first impressions

Date December 18, 2007

One of the things I was most looking forward to from the Xbox Fall Dashboard update was the opening up of movie downloads from Video Marketplace to the UK market (among others). Here’s how it works; you download a movie of your choice for cost somewhere between £2 (for a standard def movie) and £3.20 [...]

XBox Update Bricked your console?

Date December 12, 2006

In response to a wall of silence from Microsoft, an unhappy Xbox customer has set up a web site where anyone whose favorite games console has been bricked by a recent software update can add their name: http://www.xbox360defective.com/index.php He is one of a growing number of angry gamers frustrated at the way Microsoft are ignoring [...]

Xbox + 1080p Update = Brick

Date December 8, 2006

After a recent dashboard update was pushed out from Xbox live and applied to my 360, I got the dreaded red flashing lights and my favorite games console is now nothing better than an expensive brick. Reading through the forums on xbox.com, I’m not the only one who has had their console bricked by this update, [...]