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Xbox 360 ‘Repaired’ Three Times, Returns Each Time With Red Ring
3:20AM Mark Wilson | Andy Phifer, like many of us, faced a glowing red ring on his nonfunctional Xbox 360. Facing an RRoD warranty technicality, he sent Microsoft $US100 to make necessary repairs. Things didn’t go so well. Here’s his story: More »
Games
Has Microsoft Finally Solved The Xbox RRoD Problem?
2:20AM John Herrman | Hey guys, have you heard? Xbox 360s die horribly, almost without fail. In the wake of some devastatingly terrible survey results, a third-party warranty company is saying that RRoD troubles are on the wane. More »
Games
Microsoft Doesn’t Dispute 54.2 Per Cent Xbox 360 Failure Rate Claim
3:50AM Adam Frucci | Remember the Game Informer survey that found that the Xbox 360 has a 54.2 per cent failure rate? Well, Microsoft has responded, and it didn’t even try to dispute that fact. More »
Games
Survey: Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is Over 50%, People Don’t Care
1:40AM Adam Frucci | According to a new reader survey by Game Informer, the Xbox 360 suffers from a whopping 54.2 per cent failure rate. That’s an insanely high figure, but I can’t say it seems that inaccurate. And you know what? People don’t care. More »
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12:30PM Nick Broughall | Rather than trying to get his RRoD’d Xbox 360 fixed, eBay user bellscape_computers has decided to sell it. But not as a broken games console – this thing is the consumate multi-function gadget! More »
RRoD Xbox 360: The Gift Of A Thousand Uses
12:30PM Nick Broughall | Rather than trying to get his RRoD’d Xbox 360 fixed, eBay user bellscape_computers has decided to sell it. But not as a broken games console – this thing is the consumate multi-function gadget! More »
Games
Microsoft Offers Comfort, Warranty Coverage To Xbox E74 Error Victims
9:18PM John Herrman | For dazed, RRoD-weary Xbox users, hearing that there’s one more way that your console might die on you was almost too much to bear. Thankfully, Microsoft has announced that these latest victims are covered, even retroactively. More »
Games
Image of the Day: If Microsoft Ever Bought Target
12:20PM Jason Chen | Some Halo player imagines what it would look like if Microsoft ever purchased Target. Hah. [Halolz - Thanks Marco!] More »
Gadgets
A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture
2:20AM Jesus Diaz | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Call_for_Revolution_Against_Beta_Culture'; I’m tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The “This will work in the next version.” The “It’s in our roadmap.” The “Buy now and upgrade later.” The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn’t tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash a year later, still half-baked, to make room for the next hardware revision. I’m tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system around. We need a change.
QOTD
QOTD: How Many Times Has Your Xbox 360 Gone Down With a RRoD?
7:00AM Sean Fallon | Earlier this month we learned that a California man has decided to sue Microsoft over RRoD issues claiming that the company new around 50% of the consoles shipped were defective (some claim the figure could be as high as 68 percent.) As you know, Microsoft extended their warranty plan at great expense to help cover their arse, but having to send back consoles repeatedly wears real thin, real fast. So, I am curious to know: how many times have you danced with the RRoD? More »
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