China’s Lenovo to launch game console (AFP)

Posted August 31st, 2010

AFP – China’s IT giant Lenovo has said it will launch a video games console this year to vie with Nintendo’s Wii, Microsoft’s XBox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 in the booming motion-gaming market.

XNand Healer GUI v0.6

Posted August 31st, 2010

TingedAce released a new version of XNand Healer GUI – a GUI app to help you dump and manage NAND files, remap bad blocks and also uncripple your Xbox 360. Requires Nandpro 2.0 (b/d or e) and FindSecData 0.62 What’s new/fixed:* Now able to browse to and select any file for Image Analysis or Remapping* [...]

Xbox 360 S 4GB Internal Memory PCB Pictures and 4GB vs 250GB

Posted August 30th, 2010

We received pictures from an “X-Scene friend” of the 4GB internal memory in the new Xbox 360 ‘S’ 4GB model. Unlike the old ‘Arcade’ units the memory is no longer located directly on the motherboard, but instead Microsoft uses a small addon-on PCB with a 4GB flash memory unit [3.2GB usable]. This probably makes production [...]

Kinect beta kits going out, Dashboard update live for participants

Posted August 30th, 2010

From joystiq.com:[QUOTE]That email purportedly sent out by Microsoft a couple weeks back inviting its recipients into a Kinect beta program? Yeah — it was legit. Joystiq has received corroborating evidence confirming the program, including pictures of the promised Kinect-enabled Dashboard update running on a participant’s retail console. In them, you can clearly see the flatter [...]

Xbox Live Voice Chat Quality to Improve: Better Codec

Posted August 30th, 2010

From eurogamer.net:[QUOTE]The quality of sound that comes through Xbox 360 headsets will be significantly improved when Microsoft updates the Xbox 360 this Fall. The refresh, designed to coincide with the launch of Kinect, will upgrade the codec and audio infrastructure that underpins the quality of voice communication from Xbox 360 to Xbox 360, and should [...]

Microsoft Execs To Deliver Tokyo Game Show Keynote

Posted August 30th, 2010

From gamasutra.com:[QUOTE]Last year it was Sony’s CEO who keynoted the Tokyo Game Show; this year it’s Microsoft’s turn. CESA says Microsoft Japan Home & Entertainment division chief Takashi Sensui and Microsoft Game Studios corporate vice president Phil Spencer will deliver the first of two keynotes to kick off the event. The pair will discuss “Xbox [...]

Unauthorized Halo Reach Play Will Result in BAN: ‘We have ways of knowing’

Posted August 30th, 2010

Stephen Toulouse, Director of Policy and Enforcement for Xbox LIVE, posted some tweets about the early online Halo Reach leaks:[QUOTE]I’ve been asked about unauthorized pre-release play on Halo: Reach. Let me address that. As with all unauthorized play on Xbox LIVE, anyone playing any unauthorized title runs the risk of account permaban and console.Remember, legit [...]

Xbox 360 ISO Extract v0.4

Posted August 30th, 2010

Somski released a new version of Xbox 360 ISO Extract:[QUOTE]This program allowes you to extract multiple xbox360 isos based on exiso(info)(info).+ you can scan recursively through a directory and pick every iso (every iso must be in a seperate dir)+ each iso will be extracted to the target_dir\where_the_iso_is_located_in+ skips extracting if target_dir already has the [...]