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By Richard Lawler Data caps and tiers could be on the way for the mobile side, but things look all good for AT&T's U-verse TV service, as it announced it has crossed the 2 million subscriber threshold (up from 1.3 million at the end of Q1) and is snapping up 60% of the share of customers in new markets. Even bet...

By Richard Lawler To save my precious DVD's and BD's from the horror of scratches, I encode all my videos to a networked PC. This PC then streams the video out to multiple different receivers (PS3, PCs, Xbox 360.) Usually what works on one may not work in another, or does not encode surround sound, or has some oth...

By Ittousai 「Datal、Xbox 360の非純正メモリ対策に対抗へ」(10月末) のさらに続き。非純正のXbox 360互換 メモリカードを売っている Datelが、米国でマイクロソフトを訴えました。内容はマイクロソフトが先日のアップデートで「Unauthorized storage unit」を使用不可能にしたことについて、公正な競争を妨げ消費者の選択の自由を奪う反トラスト法違反であるとするもの。 Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

By Nilay Patel You had to know someone out there would try and profit off Microsoft's recent mass bannination of modded Xbox 360 consoles from Xbox Live, and although the eBay scammers arguably got there first, we're awarding the style trophy to AbingtonIP, an Oklahoma law firm that's trying to gin up a...

By Tim Stevens To celebrate the release of Forza Motorsport 2, Microsoft made a big deal about its Wireless Racing Wheel, a cable-free force-feedback controller for racers that was only really wireless if you didn't want force-feedback. It was a reasonable compromise and a reasonably good wheel, but...

By Vladislav Savov Read - Wii regains hardware top spot following US price cut Read - Xbox 360 leads in year-to-date growth Read - DS poised to break US hardware recordsContinue reading NPD: Wii reclaims lead in US sales, but console gaming market shrinks by a fifth

By Darren Murph Remember all those fantastic features that Microsoft promised were in the works for its Xbox 360 back at E3? Get ready folks, because they're all arriving in five days. At an undisclosed time on November 17th, users will be able to login to Xbox LIVE and check out the totally bodacious new po...

By Donald Melanson Didn't think Microsoft exec Aaron Greenberg could top himself after saying that Hulu on 360 was like "asking out a really hot chick on a date?" Well, think again, 'cause Greenberg recently sat down with GameInformer for a fairly wide ranging interview, and he took the opportunity to toss...

By Donald Melanson Sure, it's not exactly news to hear that the Xbox 360 is the most unreliable console of the big three, but just how unreliable is it? Now there's a point of contention. The good news for Microsoft, of sorts, is that a new study from SquareTrade found that just 23.7% of Xbox 360 consoles failed wi...

By Tim Stevens If you're sick of hearing your grandmother brag about how popular her chosen console is while she rocks your world in Wii Sports Bowling yet again, maybe this news will finally shut her up. Last week, thanks to a flurry of price cuts and slimming waistlines, the other two players in the conso...

By Ross Miller It's smaller and lighter, yes, but how has Sony's Blu-ray-playing console evolved -- or regressed -- over these past few years? The entry-level Arcade will remain at $200 while the top end Elite will drop to $300 from $400.Other news of import Verizon launches FiOS TV Online trial

By Ross Miller Even before Sony's big unveil earlier this month at Leipzig GamesCom, it felt like we already knew the PlayStation 3 Slim quite intimately. A leak from back in May gave us a glimpse of every angle of the hardware's exterior, and even the final retail box. At that point, we didn't know what to ma...

By Ross Miller Xbox 360 Pro and Elite price cuts confirmed in Target ad for next week As has been heavily rumored, the Xbox 360 60GB Pro system will be cut to $250 while the 120GB Elite will drop to $300.Other news of import PlayOn for Wii beta to be announced tomorrow

By Paul Miller Come on Microsoft, just fess up. We know you're killing off your middle Xbox SKU, you know you're killing off your middle SKU, so let's drop this pretense of secrecy, alright? The latest in this overwhelming heap of proof comes from tipster David R., whose local Best Buy had the two new Xbox 36...

By Paul Miller I've wanted a PlayStation 3 since forever. It plays Blu-ray movies, it has some great exclusive titles, and it looks like it could beat somebody up without breaking a sweat across its glossy matte brow. But it's always seemed out of reach price-wise. As my desire grew stronger over recent mon...

By Tim Stevens That said, there are some problems with this survey; as far as we can tell there was no verification made that respondents actually own the consoles that they indicated they did, and we all know how people like having fun at Microsoft's expense. Also, the survey was naturally only of reader...

By Trent Wolbe 00:03:15 - OnLive killed the game console star? 00:17:50 - Nintendo launches Wii System Menu 4.0, including SD card WiiWare playback 00:25:35 - 'Resident Evil 5' Xbox 360 unboxing 00:27:25 - Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i now official (and that article Nilay was talking about)

By Trent Wolbe Producer: Trent Wolbe Song: Personal Jesus 00:05:33 - Amazon Kindle 2 review 00:42:07 - New Mac mini revealed in video? 00:58:17 - Red 'Resident Evil 5' Xbox 360 unveiled! (updated) 01:00:25 - Red Xbox 360 Resident Evil Limited Edition "unboxed" by Major Nelson

By Donald Melanson Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Continue reading Apparent Xbox 360 "Jasper" spotted in the wild Filed under: Gaming originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

By Trent Wolbe Thanks, Jacob and HB for the image] 00:01:08 - New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions 00:31:54 - Week of Netflix 00:51:39 - HP Mini 1000 hands-on 01:02:16 - Windows 7 details galore

By Thomas Ricker Today we've got a pair for Microsoft. No, not another Blu-ray Xbox 360 whisper. Rather, we've got a resurrection of the 60GB Xbox 360 courtesy of Trusted Reviews as well as a US hardware price cut (and a nod towards a new SKU) according ...

By Ryan Block Rewind back to late 2006. The PS3 was launching alongside the Wii and geeky editors like ourselves were having a field day. We'd already managed to convince our good pal Ben Heck to build another Xbox 360 laptop and the Wii Laptop, so it was only a matter of time before we started brainstorming...

By Trent Wolbe We've wanted a long time to get our old pal Major Nelson on the Engadget podcast, and what better occasion than CES? Ok, maybe E3 -- but there's been no dearth of 360 news at and prior to the show, and no shortage of questions we've been dying to have answered on the air. If you're not down with the...

By Joshua Topolsky Filed under: GamingA clever gent who goes by the name SeventhSon (we hope in reference to the totally ripping Iron Maiden record Seventh Son of a Seventh Son) has discovered a method to alter both the DVD key and game region code on Microsoft's Xbox 360, at least for the Hypervisor exploita...

By Trent Wolbe 01:07 - Xbox 360 Elite coverage roundup -- are you getting one? 19:58 - Sony, Immersion in talks to get SIXAXIS rumbling 22:32 - Fuh Yuan retracts $299 Wal-Mart HD DVD statement 28:27 - AT&T botches Nokia N75 launch, pulls from site 35:49 - The Engadget mascot contest: win a Wii!

By Trent Wolbe 01:26 - 20GB PlayStation 3, RIP: 2006 - 2007 06:28 - Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard update 13:07 - How-To: play DivX and Xvid on your Apple TV 17:14 - Apple's Leopard delayed to October, iPhone blamed 24:16 - Apple sells 100 millionth iPod, deems experiment a success

By Trent Wolbe Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Solvent - Instructograph (Ghostly International) Program: 00:35 - Apple TV coverage roundup 12:42 - Xbox 360 Elite: new, black limited edition Xbox with HDMI and 120GB drive 17:39 - Folding@home PS3 hands-on 22:52 - Engadget gets a BlackBerry massage

By Jeannie Choe Filed under: GamingSo, Microsoft is officially striking back to halt recent Xbox 360 hack-tivity after having been alerted to recent breach methods of the system's non-privileged memory areas, allowing users to run their own code. With potential homebrews beginning to surface, Micr...

By Conrad Quilty-Harper Filed under: GamingIn a shot across Microsoft's bow, Team Xecuter has released a how-to for the installation of its yet to be released Blaster360 firmware flasher. There's a range of different motivations behind wanting to flash your Xbox 360, the most obvious being the ability to updat...

By Paul Miller Filed under: StorageWe suppose it's the principle of the thing, and on principle, TheSpecialist's new HDDHacker v0.5B really does let you use your very own HDD in lieu of Microsoft's $100 add-on number, but since Microsoft has firmly set the add-on HDD cap at 20GB (for legit Xbox Live-rel...

By Peter Rojas Filed under: CES, Gaming, Home EntertainmentDoug Anderson chatted with Microsoft yesterday and managed to scare up some interesting new details about that new IPTV service that is due out for the Xbox 360 later this year. Seems that their partner here in the US will be AT&T (no surpri...

By Randall Bennett 02:26 - Live from the Sony Keynote 09:10 - Sony announces "BRAVIA Internet Video Link" for HD content 12:30 - Xbox 360 IPTV interface gallery 20:44 - Wireless HDMI over UWB? Heck yes! 21:33 - Microsoft announces the HP TouchSmart PC 22:12 - Live from the Bill Gates keynote

By Donald Melanson Filed under: GamingWhile Xbox 360 users with 1080p displays enthusiastically greeted last week's dashboard update, it seems some folks are finding that the update is causing more problems than it fixes, with reports of random crashes, bricked consoles, and various display issues fi...

By Ryan Block P.S. -Big ups on the Xbox 360 and Eames-inspired PS3 and Wii skins above. Read - PS3 skins Read - Wii skins Read - Zune skins Read - PSP, Xbox, etc. "skins" Permalink | Email this | Comments Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

By Ryan Block Filed under: Gaming, Home EntertainmentWe realize the fall update's only been out a few weeks, but it seems like an eternity for those of us that have been waiting since last November to stream media to our Xbox 360s without the need for a Media Center PC. A new TVersity patch allows users to t...

By Benjamin Heckendorn Thank you Microsoft. Step 1 - Take Apart Your Xbox 360 Video Cable The Xbox 360's video cable assembly doesn't use screws but luckily it's still pretty easy to take apart. Here's how: The shielded wires from the Xbox 360 cable, or as I call them "Buck Rogers Spaghetti."

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By Cyrus Farivar Filed under: GamingAh, Wintel. The mere convergence of the words "Windows" and "Intel" harkens back to a simpler time (call it the 1980s and 1990s), when Microsoft and Intel were literally joined at the hip. Microsoft provided the software, and Intel brought the brains. Today in the aught d...

By Paul Miller Filed under: GamingEverybody's favorite far-reaching, possibly free speech-infringing law, the DMCA, is being put to use again for busting down on Divineo, a seller of mod-chips. Sony has slapped them with a $9 million lawsuit for selling the chips, along with HDLoader, which allows a...

By Paul Miller Filed under: Gaming When the rumor mill gets a'turnin' you're bound to have a few false-starts, and it seems the new black Xbox 360 meme is no exception. The snazzy "black Xbox" seen above might look quite black and Xboxy, but we're sorry to report that it's just a developer box, plenty of whi...

By Conrad Quilty-Harper Filed under: GamingFor the second time since the console's launch, rumors are circulating that Microsoft is working on a black Xbox 360 design, with the source this time being a banner advert from Best Buy depicting what appears to be a matte black console. The low resolution picture, cou...

By Trent Wolbe Welcome to the new Engadget everyone! We're sure you've all gotten well acquainted with the new site by now, but if you're at all interested in hearing Pete and Ryan ramble on about the back story and new features, you've come to the right podcast. Oh, but there's news, too. Puh-lenty going on...

By Evan Blass Every so often a mod comes along that's so intricate, so amazing, so over the top, that words simply don't do it justice (but we'll try anyway). Ben Heckendorn's Xbox 360 laptop is one such mod. Having garnered no small amount of fame from previous portable projects like the nPod, PPS2, and N6...

By Ryan Block Filed under: GamingIt's not a huge price drop, but reports are starting to come in that Microsoft's turning up the heat in Europe on the price of their Xbox 360 Core console. Apparently retailers in the UK are beginning to drop the price on the console from £209 to £199, nearly a $20 US price cu...