Windows Vista SP1 Performance Benchmark

Vista’s first huge Service Pack is just days away from being released to the public. It includes all of the updates that have been released since going retail last year, but also promises some performance benefit over the original retail version.
For many people, this might be exactly what they have waited for. After all, [...]

Microsoft drops HD-DVD player

Stick a fork in it - HD-DVD is totally, completely DONE. Microsoft made the following statement today:
As a result of recent decisions made by Toshiba, Hollywood studios, and retailers, Microsoft plans to withdraw from HD DVD. Xbox will no longer manufacture new HD DVD players for the Xbox 360, but we will continue [...]

XBOX 360 supports DivX AVI files!

When I wrote about the XBOX 360 vs. PS3, one of the PS3’s biggest advantages was its superior multimedia support. The 360 could play WMV files, some MPEG-4 files, and some MPEG-2 files with crappy containers, but that’s about it.
Well on December 4th, that is all about to change.
The XBOX MSDN blog has a [...]

More XBOX 360 Fall 2007 Update details

Microsoft has released information on the update that will go live on December 4. But rather than coming from Redmond, it’s coming LIVE~! from JAPAN, where approximately 10 people own the console.
Anyway, the most significant update seems to be that the downloadable games area and marketplace will (finally) be a bit organized. Games are [...]

Playstation 3 vs. XBOX 360 - One Year Later

It has been exactly 1 year to the day since we published our PS3 vs. XBOX 360 article, written for us by a friend of mine who is a lead programmer for a game company working on all three consoles (and PC).
His conclusion was a controversial one at the time. That the XBOX 360 [...]

Rumor: Some Halo 3 XBOX 360’s are 65nm Falcons

More forum-rumors for you this fine day. According to this thread at the official XBOX forum, some (not all) of the Halo 3 Edition XBOX 360’s are actually shipping with cooler-running (and hopefully more reliable) 65nm Falcon processors. The first post tells you how to check if you have a 65nm processor in your [...]

Halo 3 is apparently pretty good

Here’s me being brutally honest: The Halo 3 hype is driving me insane.
You see, I never owned an XBOX 1. I never got into Halo at all. Personally, I can’t stand playing First Person Shooters with a gamepad. I don’t know if I will ever get good at it. One of the reasons I loved [...]