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Cliffy B Explains Gears of War 2's Multiplayer [VIDEO]

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.

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Xbox 360: Turn Your Xbox 360 into a Streaming Netflix Player

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 a Netflix Watch Instantly box.

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Microsoft To Let Other Companies Build, Release 360 Consoles

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.

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Anti-Feministing: Debunking The Argument Against GTA IV

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.

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Xbox Live Bans A Guy For Using His Surname In Gamertag

Xbox LIVE has banned gamer Richard Gaywood for using the gamertag "RichardGaywood." According to LIVE, "...the gamertag RichardGaywood is no longer allowed. Please change your gamertag before playing on Xbox LIVE." Here's the kicker: Richard Gaywood is apparently his legal name!

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Rumors: Xbox 360 Spring Updates"Motion Sensor"& Game install

Perhaps the most interesting additions are "Calibration options for motion sensor devices" for the Dashboard and "Support for titles to store installation data on Storage Device for faster loading" for Games. If true, the former would lend further credibility to frequent rumors that Microsoft is planning to introduce a motion controller for Xbox

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Broken Xbox 360s Made My Baby Cry

My kid was just as upset as I was when my 2nd 360 got the RRoD.

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Red ring of death returns at GDC 08

Microsoft wants consumers to believe that its problems with the Xbox 360 console in terms of hardware failure are over.But wandering through the Game Developers Conference halls and it's clear that the problem persists.On Microsoft's own stand at the show one of the demo consoles has a rather familiar problem - the red ring of death.

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The man responsible for xbox 360 failing (red ring of death)

It's more or less the common assumption that Microsoft skimped a bit on product testing before unleashing the Xbox 360 on the world. We never realized that Microsoft had skimped this much. It seems Microsoft could have done a little more research before appointing their QA lead.

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Testing Xbox Video Games Is Fun -- And Hard. Very Hard.

Security at Volt is intense....a group of lockers at the end of the hallway holds boys' miscellany...One day...a cell phone rings. The tester takes the call...An uneasy silence descends upon the room. "That's probably the last time he'll ever work here," says one of the leads. Soon, someone collects his hoodie and takes it...he never comes back.

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Gamers Strike Back Against Cooper Lawrence On Amazon

After hearing the offensive and biased attack against Mass Effect on Fox News, I decided to check out some links on Cooper Lawrence, the psychologist who took part in the biased strike on the game. I came across her book on Amazon.com titled ‘The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace with Your Inner Overachiever’.

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ABC and MGM join Xbox Live Marketplace video service

Yes, you can download HD episodes of "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" to your Xbox. Then, watch "Rocky" and "The Usual Suspects" in HD too. More details from CES.

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Starcraft 2 coming for Xbox 360?

Microsoft's Retail Training Site inadvertently hints at Starcraft II as being the greatest game ever, and maybe it will be coming out on the 360 also.

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Criterion Collection: Xbox 360 Games You MUST Own

There are few titles that every true gamer must own. These games truly belong in the Criterion Collection. Here are the titles that belong on every Xbox 360 owner’s shelf.

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Lawyer for the 'Xbox 3' speaks out

"These are not guys looking to get rich," Gibson said in a telephone interview from Houston Tuesday. "They are in their late 20s and 30s. They are college-educated. These are not young kids who just turned 18 and [want] to sue for the fun of it. This is, to them, a real issue."

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Microsoft Doesn’t Owe You Anything for Xbox Live Issues

Gaming Today writer Chris says his prayers and takes a deeper look into the Xbox Live Issue. In his research, he seems to have found something interesting in the Terms of Service of the Xbox Live contract everyone agrees to when they sign up for the service. It seems Microsoft doesn't own anyone anything. Why? Only one way to find out...

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Xbox 360, DRM, and Why I Can't Play What I Paid For

Microsoft STILL has yet to fix their awful DRM licensing issues for Xbox Live Marketplace downloads, locking many people out of the content they've paid for. So when your 360 gets the RRoD, they will fix it, but in the process break everything you've downloaded from XBLM, leaving it to you to spend months on the phone with XBL Support.

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Goldeneye XBL Petition + Contacts - Lets Make it Happen Digg

We've done it before and we can do it again. Lets show once again how Digg and the Internet can make change happen! No ads or spam, just a page with the petition, and e-mail contacts at MS/Nintendo. Please add more contacts in the comments (so I can add to the blog), so we can get our voice out there as much as possible!

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Halo 3 Championship Tournament on Xbox Live

Today, Microsoft, Bungie and the US Army (huh?!) announced their plans to recruit the best Halo 3 gamers with the launch of the first ever Halo 3 Championship Tournament this April, exclusively on Xbox Live. This is the same tournament that slipped out of the PR team's lips a bit early last month, but now it's official and ready to go.

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Microsoft says Blu-ray for 360 is possible

The latest company to possibly jump on the Blu-ray bandwagon is none other than Microsoft itself, the backers of the rival HD-DVD format. According to BetaNews, Albert Penello, director for global marketing at Microsoft, revealed that while his company will continue to back the HD-DVD for the 360, that because of the external drive c...

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