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Video Game Achievements & Unlockables
Downloads Bonus: unlockables for hundreds of games on every major console. Achievements for over 200 Xbox 360 games. Easy and Hard icons let you know which points to go after first! This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[October 4, 2007, 12:36]
Video Game Makers Sue Yahoo!
News Sega, said hot games for its Dreamcast console, including Crazy Taxi, Sega Rally 2, House of the Dead and Soul Caliber are being sold on Yahoo! Three big video-game publishers sued Yahoo! Collectively, game publishers say they lose $3bn (£1.9bn) a...
[March 29, 2000, 13:25]
Xbox Game Support Updates
Downloads Xbox game support enables your Xbox 360 video game console to play an array of games from your original Xbox video game console. A list of games that are currently backward compatible is available here and we will continue to add support for...
[August 21, 2007, 13:47]
Stakes Are High For Xbox Online Play
News Microsoft on Friday will raise its stakes in the gaming market with an elaborate new online service for its Xbox video game console. Analysts estimate that building the global network for Xbox Live will account for at least a quarter of the $2bn...
[November 15, 2002, 8:10]
Microsoft Bets $500m On Xbox
News US consumers who plunk down $299 for Microsoft's new Xbox game console, a system that will compete against Sony's PlayStation2 and Nintendo's GameCube, will get their hardware at a discount. Like other console makers, Microsoft is subsidising the...
[November 15, 2001, 16:23]
XB Stream
Downloads XB Stream in a nut shell is an RSS/XML feed reader/aggregator that works with the XBox 360 video game console. XB Stream allows you to view xml based content feeds (xml, rss, rdf) on your Xbox 360 video game console; you can also listen to podcasts...
[September 27, 2006, 10:46]
Microsoft Releases Xbox Details
News Microsoft has quietly upgraded the hard drive on its upcoming Xbox video game console. In addition, Conexant Systems announced that Microsoft will use its CX25871 video encoder chip to connect the Xbox video game console to both digital and...
[March 30, 2001, 9:57]
Xbox Uncovered
News Since the success of the Atari 2600 of the 1980s, American companies have tried to jump into the video game console market with limited returns. Equal in size to a VCR, the Xbox could go down in history as the largest video game console ever.
[November 15, 2001, 11:04]
Xbox Components Indicate Low Sales
News Sales of Microsoft's Xbox video game console are likely to scrape the low end of current company forecasts, based on recent reports involving key component suppliers. That would bring sales in at the low end of the nine million to 11 million units...
[February 3, 2003, 9:52]
PS2 Can Now Be Like TiVo Too
News Sony's PlayStation 2 video game console will gain TiVo-like video functions with software to be announced Monday by two start-ups. I think the overall idea of being able to view video and other content via the game console, that has real long-term...
[September 17, 2002, 7:37]
Xbox Faces The Music With New Software
News Microsoft announced the first non-game application for its Xbox video game console on Monday and unveiled a handful of high-profile games intended to boost the system's cachet among hardcore players. Non-game uses for the Xbox have been the subject...
[May 13, 2003, 7:55]
Australians Make Xbox Hack Freely Available
News An Australian company that manufactures and sells a "mod chip" for Microsoft's Xbox video-game console has released the design for the hacking tool under an open-source license. Mod chips are gray-market add-ons that, once soldered onto the main...
[June 25, 2003, 14:27]
Microsoft To Put Price, Date On Xbox At E3
News Microsoft will be counting on the annual fete to build buzz for its upcoming Xbox game console. Nintendo, meanwhile, will try to prove it's still a serious contender in the console market with its upcoming GameCube.
[May 14, 2001, 15:00]
Game Makers Aren't Playing Favourites
News Major software publishers at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles are almost unanimously hedging their bets: They are creating games for multiple formats in hopes of establishing a foothold with whatever game console...
[May 21, 2001, 11:45]
Plans For Linux Game Console Fizzle
News Indrema, which hoped to carve a niche in the lucrative video game industry with a console based on the Linux operating system, announced Wednesday that it is going out of business. The Indrema console was to use commonly available software...
[April 12, 2001, 11:07]
Chat Is Key To Xbox Online Service
News The Xbox Live service, set to debut online on 15 November, will include voice chat in every game, said John O'Rourke, worldwide marketing director for Microsoft's Xbox video game console, as he promoted the upcoming online service for the console...
[August 22, 2002, 9:37]
Microsoft May Introduce Game Console In Autumn
News Microsoft may pour billions of dollars over four years into developing and promoting a home video game console, code-named X-Box, said one person who has been briefed on Microsoft's plans. The new Microsoft console is expected to play standard PC...
[October 26, 1999, 16:27]
Report: Xbox Will Be A Loser For Microsoft
News Microsoft could lose as much as $2bn(£1.36bn) on its Xbox console, potentially selling the game console at a loss for three years or more, before breaking even in fiscal 2005, according to a Merrill Lynch report released Tuesday.
[March 7, 2001, 9:00]
Microsoft Rips The Veil Off X-Box
News Scheduled for release in autumn 2001, the console will be supported by a number of video and computer game developers, and boast performance greater than any previous game system. We're taking the time today to announce the breakthrough game...
[March 10, 2000, 8:56]
Nintendo's GameCube To Be Co-branded By IBM
News Joining Nintendo on stage will be Big Blue, announcing that each video game console will sport a logo promoting IBM. IBM's PowerPC processor will power the console, which is scheduled for release on 14 September in Japan.
[August 23, 2001, 10:42]
