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Xbox Giveaway

By Maarten Goldstein, Jan 01, 2002 7:35am PST

There is a new contest on Hypothermia, where this time they are giving away three Xbox consoles. The consoles will come with a game and an extra...

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Xbox Online Plans

By Maarten Goldstein, Dec 13, 2001 3:16am PST

Just 2 days after Sony announced their Japanese Playstation 2 online gaming plans, Microsoft has now announced that the Xbox online system should...

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"There are plenty of good games in production. I haven't yet been able to buy any of the games ..."

- digital leaf see all 20 comments

XBox Diary

By Steve Gibson, Dec 10, 2001 12:10pm PST

Entirely because I suck, Richard Smith's Xbox diary is a week late. You may remember back when GameCube from Nintendo was only available overseas...

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" I have somewhat large hands so The Xbox controller felt perfect at first and oddly enough felt ..."

- Abducted see all 40 comments

MS Xbox Shipments

By Maarten Goldstein, Dec 10, 2001 6:29am PST

According to Microsoft, they have shipped 1.1 million Xbox consoles so far to retailers, with 300,000 more coming this year. The company didn't say...

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"1.1 Million?!? Where the fuck ARE they? Oh yeah...that's right...they're in $600 bundles at ..."

- xakmalice see all 95 comments

The XBox Future

By Steve Gibson, Dec 02, 2001 9:41am PST

We've kinda heard on and off about how Microsoft had originally pitched XBox as a "homestation" type of machine with more duties but...

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"I guess that settles it, all of the people defending the xbox did not want to accept what its ..."

- digitaljihad see all 143 comments

The Big Future for Xbox

By Maarten Goldstein, Nov 30, 2001 6:48am PST

According to CNet, Microsoft's Steve "Developers, Developers, Developers!" Ballmer has admitted that the Xbox is just a part of a "broader concept"...

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" Well, the common consumer isn't quite ready for it yet...but with HDTV and DTV becoming more ..."

- drucifer see all 47 comments

GameSpy Xbox Tunnel

By Maarten Goldstein, Nov 27, 2001 6:33am PST

The GameSpy Arcade guys let us know they have released the GameSpy Tunnel application which will allow you to use GameSpy Arcade with the Xbox....

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"This thing actually works pretty good. You definately need to find pings 100 or less to play with."

- jake see all 37 comments

Inside the Xbox

By Maarten Goldstein, Nov 21, 2001 8:04am PST

We've seen a few of these articles, and now Anand Tech has posted an article about the inside of the Xbox as well, looking at the components,...

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" Is that not the definition of a Celeron II? They have SSE no?"

- DinK see all 19 comments

Monster Cables for Xbox

By Maarten Goldstein, Nov 20, 2001 9:57am PST

Got a press release from Monster Gaming, a division of Monster Cable, announcing that their special Xbox cables are in stores now. Their audio /...

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"More lemmings to buy into the Monster Cable lies. I hate that company, they just rip people off."

- digitaljihad see all 71 comments

XBox, The Missing Gigs

By Steve Gibson, Nov 20, 2001 6:43am PST

Here's something to freak people out. Some snooping around the XBox by HardOCP combined with some astute eyes at CloudChaser reveals that although...

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"silly news sites. those two gigs are dedicated for savegames, your soundtrack playlists and ..."

- onyxraven see all 108 comments

XBox Finances

By Steve Gibson, Nov 19, 2001 9:24am PST

Mark Corr sent along this link from Forbes (which I assume he saw on VE) that discusses the finances behind the XBox and the realities of losing...

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"$100 lost per unit sold is a pittance compared to what's in Microsoft's coffers."

- the archvile see all 50 comments

Haxoring XBox

By Steve Gibson, Nov 19, 2001 6:14am PST

Couple of tearing apart the XBox articles to check out. Firstly /. had this link to a guy who got MAME running on an XBox dev kit. Also, here's a...

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" I read the other day that they were earning money on the PS2 hardware."

- cannonfodder see all 10 comments

XBox Opinions

By Steve Gibson, Nov 18, 2001 4:20am PST

Here's a roundup of some of the more informative XBox comments posted by users here yesterday in no real particular order. Seems like just about...

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" mmm interesting theory - i thought they would release a browser i wonder if someone will ..."

- abrasion see all 277 comments

XBox Morning After

By Steve Gibson, Nov 16, 2001 5:05am PST

So we had a couple of XBox threads yesterday discussing people trying to find the machines and all that fun, Now that a bunch of people got to take...

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" The trick to controling the jeep is to understand that you don't control the steering. You ..."

- JavaMan see all 353 comments

Got An X-Box? Looking For One?

By Jack Mathews, Nov 15, 2001 8:43am PST

No comments from me on the X Box stuff really, since my bias seems to rile people up. I'm just mostly starting this story for two reasons......

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" Tekken hides sloppy contacts with speed of fighting. wtf? Tekken is nowhere near the speed ..."

- hawkeye see all 511 comments