Those who play with Crazy know well enough he swears like a sailor when he's having a bad game. It's a whole new experience, however, to actually be in the room and see his bottom lip quiver and eyes dilate, him banging the controller or thowing it, and seeing the collection of controllers being held together by rubber bands. Really, he actually keeps rubber bands near his Xbox to hold broken controllers together. But he has nothing on this bastard.
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This actually was announced a while ago, but you can start finding them on the store shelves. Xbox 360 Arcades now have 512 megabytes of internal memory. Which means you could do something like upgrade your Xbox to the NXE without buying an memory pack or hard drive. Of course, this is a finger in the eyes of those who went out and bought the storage devices for their Xbox 360 Arcardes in the past. Speaking for those people who bought a hard drive for their Arcade: Thanks for nothing, Microsoft! Putting storage in the system now is like John McCain getting a few million more votes this week.
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On the heels of what has been described as a successful Black Friday promotion, Microsoft has announced that it will begin offering a Holiday Deal of the Week through the month of December. The first deal is for the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack. Xbox Live Gold members in all regions will be able to purchase the pack for 400 Microsoft Points (US $5), a discount of 200 points from the previous price. The discount will be available for one week, starting Tuesday at 9AM Pacific. Next Monday it will be replaced with a new deal.
A congratulations goes out to St8 Rippin, the 2008 MLG Pro 4v4 Halo 3 Champions! After a thrilling conclusion of what is considered the biggest MLG season ever, Str8 Rippin pulled a rabbit out of their hat and defeated Walshy, and his team Instinct, six to three. The championship came to a close with a mean capture the flag on Onslaught. The MLG MVP was Snipedown.
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The long wait is over. So far things appear to be going smoothly with few problems. Occassional timeout issues have been reported while downloading (overworked servers), but nothing real serious like bricked Xbox 360s similar to an infamous PS3 update... yet. The update took me about 2 minutes.
I immediately made my avatar and then dove into Netflix. Which I have to say is somewhat better than what Xbox Marketplace offers, but nothing to be jumping up and down about. There simply aren't that many movies I'm into available on Netflix's streaming service, but we all have different tastes and for $8 month after a free trial you can dig into it.
I ripped COD: WAW to the hard drive and notice some increase in loading time. It loads content before an epilogue is finished, but that happened before I ripped it. I'll be adding more on my next day off work. COD4, Halo and perhaps whatever other game I'm more actively playing will make it on the hard disk.
Discuss what you like/don't like about the NXE here.
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It's up. It's working. And we're still working on it. Big thanks to Keegan for helping with the banner (and he's still revising it). Other changes have been made. For example, when you login to the forums you're logged into the main site (this one) too.
So we're interested to hear what you think. Click "add comment" below and you can post one - it's fun! If you don't see the "add comment" link, log in on the forums and try again.
Ready for NXE? It's coming on Wednesday. This means if you're one of the poor people without a 512mb memory card or a hard drive, you need to get a move on and acquire one or you'll be left out! The rest of us will be making our avatars and laughing at their bodily functions they do on command.
But really, I'm looking forward to this interface they boast will be easier to use. I'd also like a more intuitive mini-dashboard because picking music on the current interface is about as much fun as clawing your way through a wall with your toes. The Netflix feature will be pretty sweet too. With an unlimited Netflix account, you'll be able to watch any of their movies (and they have a myriad of them) whenever you like.
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