Netflix subscribers, if you’ve got an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don’t have to shell out $99 for Roku’s Netflix Player box to get your Watch Instantly library on your TV screen—you already have everything you need. Using the free Windows Media Center plug-in, vmcNetflix, you can turn your Xbox 360 into [...]

We’ll tell you what’s up with Microsoft: new hardware options. It may sound totally insane, but word has it that Microsoft may begin allowing third-party manufacturers to create Xbox 360 hardware. And we’re not talking about peripherals, people; we mean hardware that runs 360 game discs created by someone other than Microsoft.read more | digg [...]

Today you finally get to see the chainsaw battling, meat flag holding smorgasbord of gore in action as we go behind the scenes at Epic games with an exclusive interview with lead designer Cliff Bleszinski to discuss the evolution of the Gears multiplayer experience.read more | digg story

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But this awesome push into the realm of album downloads got us thinking: What other LPs would we like to jam out to in our living room?read more | digg story

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People aren’t just using the Spore Creature Creator to make penis monsters. Creative kids are trading cocks for controllers — just look at what Kotakuite zOmbi’s friend Eric made in the Spore creator editor a few minutes ago. Yep, that’s right, Eric made an Xbox 360 controller.read more | digg story

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Until recently, Microsoft could brag about how Live was by far the most feature-complete online service on any platform, with a unified Friends list, the best online shop, voice and video chat as standard and a consistent and stable online experience. But in recent months there
’s been a shift in the market, and even bigger [...]

As part of a new analyst note, Janco Partners’ Mike Hickey has referenced the latest Grand Theft Auto IV-satirizing trailer for THQ’s Saint’s Row 2, suggesting the move is “unusually pompous” and reiterating “conservative” sales expectations for THQ’s urban open-world title.read more | digg story

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Is Grand Theft Auto IV an expression of hate towards women? Are those who enjoy it misogynists?
Feminist interest blog Feministing certainly thinks so. Before we address an argument to her statement, it’s necessary first to pick out a few serious flaws in her opinion of the game.read more | digg story

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You may have heard by now that the upcoming Soul Calibur IV will be getting one more Star Wars character thrown into the action with “Starkiller,” the protagonist of the also-upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. That means Namco Bandai has to unveil a new trailer for the game, complete with a brief, teasing segment [...]

For this week
’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam Sessler brings up an issue that’s old, but still unfortunately valid. That is, he, like many people, is fed up with the amount of racist and homophobic talk on Xbox Live. As he points out, the situation is just getting uglier all the time.read more | digg story

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