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Microsoft Has Extended the Warranty for Xbox 360 E74 Errors

The Xbox 360 is one of the most popular consoles of this generation, largely because it was the first one of the new wave of devices to be launched and has been backed up by a solid multiplayer and online service in the form of Xbox Live. Sadly, things weren't all sunshine and butterflies for people who decided...

15 April 2009
04:25 GMT

The Worst of Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Failures Is Gone

The Xbox 360 is today one of the most popular consoles, largely due to the fact that it has a low price tag, a big library of titles and that it was the first next-generation platform to appear on the market. But its life hasn't been the smoothest, due to a lot of hardware problems, with a big number of users se...

20 March 2009
03:47 GMT

Xbox DRM Transfer Tool Is Released

If there's one thing Microsoft can do right most of the time is protecting its intellectual property. The software giant has always been at the forefront of creating ways to stop other people from stealing the company's work. But, in recent history, digital rights management, the latest in intellectual prop...

30 June 2008
18:06 GMT

Xbox 360 Failure Reason Exposed

Numerous reports and anecdotal evidence pointed out the fact that the Microsoft created Xbox 360 had an exceptionally high hardware failure rate for a gaming console. The famous Red Ring of Death reared its ugly head in the most unlikely of circumstances and even some of the machines that Microsoft used for demonstra...

13 June 2008
08:04 GMT

Red Face O'Shame at GDC

The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is, to some, the new E3. That implies more game developers, artists, storytellers and publishers talking and sharing ideas about the future of gaming. An E3 grade conference implies demos for the masses, trailers on HD giant screens, booths where people can play tomorr...

25 February 2008
05:20 GMT

Microsoft Inside Source Talks About the Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death

If you own an Xbox 360 console, you're surely aware that you might at some point experience the Red Ring of Death, in case you haven't already. It appears that this issue is gone from the latest versions of the console, but we're still wondering what's causing them, after all. An inside source fr...

21 January 2008
13:06 GMT

Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Greeting Cards Now Available!

At first there was a video and a song of a metal band named "Red Ring of Death" and now the sad event has been turned into a means of profit for bsangel, greeting card artist. In case you want to tease your brother/father/son/girlfriend/sister about the loss of their Xbox 360, you can send them a funny condolence ca...

17 October 2007
11:39 GMT

Fix Your Xbox 360 "Red Ring of Death" Issue Now!

It appears that a group of skilled gamers have found a way to fix the Xbox 360's greatest issue, the "Red Ring of Death", which has troubled many console owners. A fixing guide was made available, but it's not free, so you'll spend $24.95 for a PDF document that teaches you how to repair your gaming d...

21 September 2007
04:13 GMT

The Xbox 360 Ring of Death Gets a Funny Approach

Gamers don't joke with a console's system failure...specially when they've paid about $500 for it. You might have already heard about the famous "Red Ring of Death", one of the worst technical problems of the Xbox 360 console. Basically, if you get to see three red lights on Microsoft's console i...

21 August 2007
05:06 GMT

Surge Protectors Killing Your 360?

This has got to be the last thing anyone had in mind for the Xbox 360's "red ring of death." Surge protectors (left, click to enlarge)?! It's like something out of a comedy series. Anyway, the ironical thing is that this hypothesis of surge protectors being the cause of 360s crashing has been rolled out jus...

9 July 2007
05:48 GMT

3 Years of Warranty for Your Xbox 360 Starting Now!

Following announcements of Xbox 360 units freezing, scratching discs and dying on users due to several internal issues, patches and even games (remember the Forza 2 issue?), Microsoft has decided to treat its users accordingly, expanding its global Xbox 360 warranty coverage. This means that any Xbox 360 customer who...

6 July 2007
04:37 GMT


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