...prospect of paying $400 for this gaming console, and within a few months, seeing its untimely demise.

I had then eventually calmed down, and thrown into Google some search terms to find a resolve for the situation. I came up with three.

• Send the box back to microsoft. Pay them to fix it and wait a month or two
• Trash the Xbox 360 and buy another one for $400, which might just have the same problem
• Find a way to fix it myself, heck with voiding the warranty, i just want to play Project Gotham 3 again soon!

So......

What choice did I take?

Find a way to fix it myself, devoid of voiding any warranty.

I looked into this product that claimed to within 2 hours of my time, and some tools I can scrape up at radio shack, to get...more

Online game Rentals - Part 2

...As I mentioned in my other article about online game rentals, it's a great idea, but not without it's flaws. The first flaw being a slow turn around time. The second biggest flaw I've found is not quite as prevalent, but one that is certainly worth resolving. At least one would think so.

Again, lets take a look at another customers concern which I found in a forum post:

"Knowing that Company X can be sucktastic about shipping newer games in their inventory, I went ahead and deleted everything in my rental queue except for Heavenly Sword and Lair. Several days ago I got an email from Company X that they h...more

Will There Be a Winner in the Video Games Console War?

...more recently the Nintendo DS.

Having seen phenomenal success with their Playstation console, Sony has become almost synonymous within the video game consoles market. Their Playstation 2 console was released in 2000 and has been the most commercially successful and fastest selling home console in video game history, with over 120 million units shipped worldwide by May 2007. Following a delay, Sony released their latest console - th...more

Xbox 360 Collides With Ps3

...The Xbox360 (pronounced as "three-sixty") is Microsoft's replacement to its original video game console. The video game was formally launched on the MTV Channel last year, May 12, 2005, to be exact. A more detailed launch, including the presentation of the Xbox's more important information, was made later in the same month at the famous Electronic Entertainment Expo.

However, formal release of the video game was made almost six months later, on November 22, in North America and in Puerto Rico. Other launches included those made in Europe last December 2 and in Japan last December 10. With almost simultaneous launches across the three major regions of the world, the Xbox360 thus became the first of the video game consoles to achieve such a feat. It is also th...more

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