...OK, so microsoft are releasing their Great White Hope of the gaming world, the Xbox 360 , onto the UK population on 2.12.05. This is only a couple of weeks after our cousins from across the pond get their gaming mitts on the US Xbox 360 . In fact, microsoft are planning a near simultaneous global release of the Xbox 360. Around the world in under 3 weeks is the kind of form that makes our own Phileas Fogg look positively bone idle.

No one has tried this before, and with good reason. The logistics of trying to launch an eagerly anticip...more

The Console War

...ly, no HDMI support on the now obsolete Core package, the wireless controllers eat through batteries like its the last day of the January battery sales, its as noisy as an 18 wheeler in a small tunnel and it breaks down if it gets the slightest hint it wants to be used. More than that the gamers are mostly idiots who abuse the bollox off anybody who dares to be better than them. I admire the 360, it is a good console, many games, good controllers if a little awkward to get used to and microsoft do promise to make your broken ass 360 work like new, or just work for that matter, in a few days free of charge.

Now we move on to the PlayStation 3. Sony's third installment of their incredible games console. Unfortunately the PS3 has had a very poor start with its 425 price tag and limited number of games it is seen as a bad choice when the 360 has all the newer better games. However i do own this big black colossus and found it to be fantastic. We only get the 60 and 40 GB models in black in the UK but that doesn't matter when the console just works the way you want it to when you want it to. It was actually less expensive and more efficient than the Xbox 360 when new because there wasn't the need to buy every gadget under the sun to play HD-DVD's and have wireless connectivity. The PS3 has got everything rolled under one roof even if it is rather large. It does have motion sensitive controllers but these have yet to be put to any great use other than flight and balancing a bloke on a log. The graphics are not yet the best the PS3 can output since its inner workings involve some form of witchcraft which developers don't have the hang of yet. Also where the Wii falls short with graphics, the PS3 has the good graphics and where the Xbox 360 falls short in disc space the PS3 makes up for with the long awaited arrival of Blu-ray. These can hold up to 50 GB on a dual layer disc and a possible 200GB disc is in a prototype stage. With this enormous space on a disc the graphics don't have to take up 7 8ths of the disc and the...more

The Future of the Xbox 360

...To remedy the Red Ring of Death, an Xbox 360 Nyko cooler has been utilized in conjunction with the system; however, the dreaded Red Ring of Death still appears. It was later discovered that the Nyko cooler exacerbates the hardware crash. Meanwhile, other gamers have even gone as far as to manually open their Xbox 360 and solve this problem. Gamers should never has to perform this cumbersome task to solve any console mishaps.

microsoft has taken steps to rectify this hardware malfunction. The company has extended the warranty on the Xbox 360 to three...more

One Leap Ahead of Other Games: XboX 360 Graphics

..., in which game developers could choose whether to support HD graphics, XboX 360 requires that all games have HD options. The resolution settings are in the System Menu on the XboX 360 Dashboard. You can use either the XboX 360 Component HD AV Cable, or the XboX 360 VGA HD AV Cable. The main thing to be put in here, is that XboX 360 offers dynamic high-definition support. If a game is designed with 720p in mind, but the capacity of your TV supports only 480p, XboX 360 complies with the best resolution that your TV offers.

3) The third aspect is Graphics, which XboX 360 is so famous with. All XboX 360 games have been edified to support widescreen formatting and 720 progressive scan. The resolution options are interchangeable. All games are able to run at 480 i ...more

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