Turn A Dead 360 Into A PC
Got a dead 360 laying around that you can’t fix? Turn that sexy piece of hardware into a fully functional PC. The guys over at Hack N Mod have posted a detailed mod which converts a 360 console into a fully functional PC. Best of all, no red ring of death on this one. Check [...]
Cool Your Xbox With Mineral Oil
You really have to be playing your Xbox non-stop to generate enough heat to justify submerging your Xbox motherboard into a non-conductive fluid such as mineral oil which B-rad used.
Besides the two obvious things that should never ever be submerged, the hard drive and dvd drive, every other component that was housed inside the Xbox [...]
Xbox G4
I have seen my fair share of PC case mods, but an Apple case mod, especially one that encompasses a Microsoft created case, awesome. Inside this Xbox 360 Elite lives a functional G4 powered by an old Powerbook G4 867MHz processor. Modder Phil Herlihy had some spare 360 cases laying around and thought he would [...]
Slimmed Down Xbox
Once Microsoft decided to roll out the 360, they had no plans to offer a lite or slim version. One modder has decided to defy the laws of console gaming and build his own slim version of the original Xbox. The slimmed down Xbox is reduced by almost 2 inches in length, width, and height. [...]
XBMC Goes Cross Platform
Just because I purchased a 360 doesn’t mean my original Xbox sits in the closet. No, no, no, the entire family uses it as a powerful media center thanks to the homebrew app XBMC (Xbox Media Center), and now the XBMC is going cross platform. You can go and grab early alpha releases right now [...]
Xbox Experience Interface
I’m not sure how this one got out of the bag, but the new Xbox Experience interface has gotten out of the bag and is making it’s way around the internets, in a video format no less. One of the new features that I am excited about is the ability to install games to your [...]
Xbox 360 Red Ring Of Death Repair Kit
Team Xecuter, whose beloved X2 Pro modchip for the original Xbox resides in all of my Xbox’s at home, has developed a kit that fixes Xbox 360’s that have been affected by the red ring of death.
The kit, which only costs $12.95, comes with all the necessary Torx drivers to open your console and parts [...]
Xbox Media Center Coming For The Mac?
For those of you who never toyed in the original Xbox hombrew sense Xbox Media Center was the end-all be-all of homebrew applications. It was originally created in 2002 and required either a hardware modchip or a software exploit on the Xbox to run.
XBMC was the ultimate media center application on the Xbox and I [...]
Modchipper Hides Cash In Gutted Colsoles
Authorities found $23,758 USD jammed inside of four game consoles that belonged to a man suspected of running an illegal PSP memory card and chipping outfit. Videogamer is reporting that during the bust at the man’s home in London England, cops started taking apart consoles with the hopes of finding illegal mod chips; to their [...]
Xbox Live Lawsuit Worth Pennies
Remember the class action lawsuit we talked about a few days ago that claimed over $5 million in damages for all for all Xbox Live downtime? Gaming Steve did some math and figured out that for a $50 a year Gold service membership, one day of outage is worth approximately $0.14. Tally that up to [...]
Xbox Live Lawsuit
It seems that a sincere apology and a free arcade game isn’t enough to satisfy the rage that some Xbox Live lovers have been suffering. Three Texans slapped the evil empire with a class action lawsuit this past Friday, claiming that the outrage and disruption of service is a breech of the Terms of Use [...]
Xbox Live Compensates Gamers With Free Game
The evil empire’s online gaming service, Xbox Live, has been plagued with all sorts of problems for several days now, and they are now ponying up to all of the disgruntled gamers, 8 million of them worldwide, by offering a downloadable game.
Xbox Live General Manager Mark Whitten said that the problem stemmed from a massive [...]
XBMC Coming To The Mac
Everyone’s favorite media center software for the Xbox, Xbox Media Center (or XBMC), is coming for Leopard. XBMC is designed to run on the original Microsoft Xbox console and it’s got one of the best media center interfaces around (I have 2 original Xbox’s at home to do just that, run XBMC).
The guys over at [...]
EA and Hasbro to dust off board games
EA and Hasbro have joined forces to bring you those classic board games that we all grew up with and loved.
The agreement gives EA the exclusive worldwide tight to create digital versions of the classic board games. Monopoly, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Nerf, Tonka and Littlest Pet Shop could hit the shelves in early 2008. EA will [...]
