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xbox EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag A new use for your Steel Battalion controller 14 Steel Battalion? One of the best games to ever hit the original Xbox. It's a game where you control a giant mech using two joysticks, three foot pedals and a 40 button controller that came with ... Could The Red Star be coming to XBLA and PSN? 31 Fans of obscure scroller The Red Star might be very interested to learn that the OFLC has recently re-rated the game for a multiplatform release. Our tipster checked to make sure this wasn't jus... A Halo virgin does it for the first time 162 For a hardcore retro fan, Halo is the enemy.And not the oh-I-am-just-not-a-big-fan-of-that-game kind of enemy. No, retro fans think Halo actually is the devil and the main thing that is wrong wit... BioWare loves Jade Empire, would like to make more 41 Jade Empire was considered one of the few Xbox exclusives worth having the system for, but a sequel has never arrived for the martial arts action RPG. Despite the one-shot deal, BioWare has state... Lil' Wayne has a modded Xbox? 72 Of course he does. "That's my joint right there."Not only does rapper Lil' Wayne's Xbox have "every game ever created," but it also has "every porno," which makes it... You sunk my Battleship! Hasbro games half off on XBLA 8 Here's the thing about Battleship: You can cheat. I can't say that I never did it -- cheat, I mean. Look, with some quick movements and a carefully placed diversion, you could even move a ship. D... Xbox '1080' prototype looks portable, silly 56 Xbox fanatics seem to be obsessed with the idea of a portable Xbox. The other portable game systems out there? Not good enough. Microsoft or bust, I guess they're thinking. Perhaps this concept b... Art from the canceled 2003 Earthworm Jim game re-surface 18 Here's your second dose of canceled game esoterica for the night, again courtesy of Unseen64: concept art and details about the ill-fated Earthworm Jim prototype for the Xbox and and PlayStation ... Grand Theft Auto 'Hot Coffee' class action suit settled 22 A slice of the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas “Hot Coffee” saga -- which came screaming into focus in 2005 -- has closed with a whimper. Earlier this afternoon Take-Two announced that ... Xbox Micro makes you wonder why the Xbox was so big (Update) 34 Remember when the Xbox landed? It was the biggest console you'd ever seen. The thing looked like they could build sturdy houses in third world countries out of it. I had always just assumed that ... Microsoft patents co-op for squad-based shooters 49 Remember how, yesterday, I said that patents were the bane of creativity? Well along comes Microsoft to prove me right! The Xbox 360 platform holder has been assigned a patent giving it exclusive... Start your morning off right, watch some more Brutal Legend 25 Do you have 22 minutes to spare? In that case, may I recommend viewing this fine gameplay video for Brütal Legend? Like the video from last week, it features commentary from Tim Schafer. And... Jhonen Vasquez draws some freaky Little Sisters 30 2K approached Jhonen Vasquez, the creator of Invader Zim, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and other awesome things, to create an image for BioShock 2. The result is this piece called “The Sist... Xbox Taiwan is looking for an 'angel' 26 We get (no offense, Larry, we love you) a dude as an Xbox spokesperson, while Taiwan is doing their best to find a great-looking young girl to do the same job. We get Major Nelson. They get an Xb... Xbox Originals integrated into Games on Demand 11 Xbox.com recently went under the knife only to come back with a few aesthetic changes. One such change was the transfer of Xbox Originals -- the downloadable Xbox games for use on Xbox 360 -- to ... E3 09: Microsoft is pulling the plug on Xbox Originals 41 Xbox Originals, the overpriced, but extremely useful (if you have a large enough hard drive) service that allows original Xbox titles to be downloaded and played on an Xbox 360, is on life suppor... Red Faction: Guerrilla pre-order incentives for US and UK 5 Red Faction: Guerrilla is rolling out the pre-order incentives for US and UK audiences! Instead of fluffing up this intro with a bunch of nonsense, lets just jump straight to the facts. The best ... Have a batch of Borderlands screens while I fap up a storm 17 It's time once again for me to drool over Borderlands, and I urge you to join me if you are so inclined, by looking at the hot screenshots that Gearbox has released to the general public. This dy... Story in which we explain why A2M's WET is called WET 18 We're glad that Artificial Mind and Movement's third-person action title WET was picked up for publishing by Bethesda Softworks. Quite simply, dual-wielding pistols and slicing people up with swo... 9/11 influencing Beyond Good & Evil 19 Beyond Good & Evil creator Michael Ancel has been talking about the inspiration behind the game and its long-awaited sequel, and has counted the September 11 terror attacks among his chief in... Altman be praised: Here's what Dead Space looked like for the original Xbox 26 Ian Milham, the Art Director on Dead Space, was at the International Festival of Animation & Computer Games over in the UK earlier this month where he showed off Dead Space. Dead Space for th... Best deal on an Xbox ever: buy it broken! 22 Ok, I'm sure you've read the Craigslist ad above, so let me highlight the part of it that I'd like you to reread a few times""This Xbox is in fine condition except that it will not turn... Contain yourself: BlowOut gets the Xbox Originals treatment 20 Continuing the trend of quantity over quality, BlowOut has been named as the latest Xbox Originals release. As of today, the run and gun can be purchased for the absurd price of $15 (or, 1200 Mic... Game Debate to the Death! Ninja Gaiden VS Jade Empire 81 Last week was a lengthy debate filled with great Dtoider arguments on both sides. The discussion ranged from nonlinear versus controlled gameplay to fun-factor versus complexities. A lot of you w... GameStop to stop accepting Xbox trade-ins on February 9 [Update] 60 GameStop will quit accepting trade-ins of original Xbox games, accessories and systems on February 9. The information comes from an internal memo sent out earlier this week. According to a few ma... Nielsen ratings are fact, Wii third place in overall console usage 57 Nielsen ratings are awesome, partially because they keep my favorite T.V. show (JAG) alive and well. Nielsen also collects videogame data. The kicker is that the demographic willing to fill out t... Sega Soccer Slam and Raze's Hell to get the Xbox Originals treatment next week 19 It's sad that these Xbox Originals announcement posts seem to always be synonymous with disappointment, but hey -- I don't pick the games, I just tell you nice folks about 'em.On December 15, the... Zapper headed to Xbox Originals on November 17, for some reason 6 The next game to grace Xbox Originals with its presence will be Zapper: One Wicked Cricket, a semi-obscure game that spent most of its shelf life sitting in the bargain bin.The Frogger rip-off wi... Rhianna Pratchett to pen script for Codemaster's new Overlord games 6 Codemasters has announced today that they've tapped Rhianna Pratchett to write the scripts for their upcoming new titles in the Overlord series. This includes Overlord II, Overlord Dark Legend fo... What would have happened if the original Halo never had multiplayer? 20 One of the biggest reasons the original Xbox did so well was because of the original Halo. The multiplayer mode in the game is arguably what made the Xbox succeed and brought in the audience that... Woman beaten to death for an Xbox 29 What I'll never understand about some crimes is how extreme they are in comparison to what is actually at stake. We all love games, but to murder someone for want of an Xbox is just, as Kenosha, ... Moore: being able to store things locally killed the Xbox 28 Former Microsoft VP Peter Moore shed some light on the premature departure of the original Xbox. He recently told The Guardian that the sudden move between the Xbox and Xbox 360 wasn’t real... Madden 09 coming to the Xbox, original that is 18 It looks as though the only console to ever weigh over forty pounds will be receiving the Madden gift this August. A writer at EastBayRI noticed, on the bottom of a press release pertaining to Ma... Jade Empire is out now on the Xbox Marketplace 20 Jade Empire is now available as an Xbox Original for the low, low price of 1200 Microsoft Points ($15).As with most Xbox games to be made purchasable through Xbox LIVE, it's actually cheaper to b... 10 million Xbox 360s sold in the U.S., Microsoft declares victory 63 Microsoft has announced today that sales of the Xbox 360 have exceeded the 10 million unit mark in the U.S., with over 19 million sold globally. Microsoft are also very excited about the Xbox 360... Stubbs the Zombie, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows coming to Xbox Originals on May 19 17 Microsoft will build upon their library of Xbox Originals next week by adding Wideload's Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse and Midway's Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows to the service. Both title... A one-console future: is it really good for you? 50 There's been some interesting discussion on why the industry would be better off with a one-console future. Even such industry heavyweights as David Jaffe and Dennis Dyack have questioned,... Game Debate to the Death! Best Halo 2 multiplayer level? 53 In the last debate we discussed which Halo: Combat Evolved multiplayer map was our favorite, and while the winner was no surprise, it was still fun to see the battle for second place. We also arg... Playing your 360 retro-style: the Xbox joystick mod 23 Oh man. All I can say is, this comes at a perfect time after Topher's recent feature about the D-Pad for the 360 controller (and its infinite fail.) What better solution is there than to play arc... Game Debate to the Death! Best and Worst Halo: Combat Evolved multiplayer level? 99 Last week's Counter-Strike map debate was one of the few times I've ever seen readers so split on a topic. Not just one or two, but nearly every map voted for received as many negative votes... Never say never: Sony says that Microsoft is eyeing Blu-ray 27 Stan Glasgow, Sony US president, says that they are in talks with Microsoft to add Blu-ray drives to their hardware. And right now, the only hardware Microsoft has is the Xbox 360. This was annou... GDC 08: Liveblogging the Microsoft Keynote 47 As the mmm-tsss-mmm-tss of the obligatory pre-keynote music dies down, I'm preparing to find proper/reliable internets to liveblog Microsoft's Keynote here at the 2008 Game Developers Conference.... Xbox Originals is getting better: Ninja Gaiden, Black, Pirates! coming next week 52 Next Monday will see the release of Ninja Gaiden Black, Black (I'm sensing a theme here), and Sid Meier's Pirates! on Xbox Originals.All three titles will be 1200 Microsoft Points each, which is ... Conker: Live and Reloaded, Jade Empire headed to Xbox Live Marketplace? 60 If the recent appearance of Conker: Live and Reloaded and Jade Empire screenshots on a Microsoft press FTP site are any indication, the two classic titles could be coming to Xbox Live Marketplace... Weekend Destructainment: Hyper Parsnip Bitches! 35 You all know that I am a huge Paul Robertson fan. So it's always great to come across new films by him. Hyper Parsnip Bitches is actually an old film of his from 2001 that I've never seen before... Burnout 3 to receive the Xbox Originals treatment next week 35 Mark your calenders! Xbox Originals is going to get a heap of arcade-style racing madness with the release of Burnout 3: Takedown on January 14. As you've probably come to expect, you'll need 120... Bargain Bin Laden #29: XIII 39 The first person shooter genre has, for a long time, not been known for its wealth of engrossing, plot-heavy games. With the exception of Valve's Half-Life series, one would be right to think of ... Xbox Originals apparently region locked, no Puyo Pop for you 16 Not that it comes as a complete shock to anyone, but it's looking like the games available on Microsoft's Xbox Originals download service still suffer from the foul plague known as region locking... Bargain Bin Laden #28: Indigo Prophecy 56 We haven't done this in a while, but you should be pleased (or horrified) to know that I've offered to officially take over Bargain Bin Laden for a while, lest Destructoid fans be without knowled... Another Xbox 360 backwards compatibility update hits (Don't get your hopes up) 66 With the latest update to the backwards compatibility list finally here, there are now over 300 orginal Xbox games that'll play nice with your Xbox 360. But unlike the last update, there is a con... Amazon.com has Halo 3 Legendary Edition for $59.99 shipped 28 What do you get for the diehard Halo fan in your life this holiday? Not this Halo 3 Legendary Edition, because they already have it. But, if you know someone who wanted it and missed it the first... Major Nelson: Xbox Originals will not have achievements 46 One of the first things we thought of when we heard that the Xbox 360 would get downloadable Xbox games was Achievements. Surely the addition of Achievements would make bargain bin games like Hal... Xbox Live turns 5, Carcassonne goes free for a limited time 44 Great news in Xbox Live land: all current XBL subscribers (8 million and counting says Microsoft) will have the opportunity to download the hit Xbox Live Arcade title, Carcassonne, for free! The ... Guys, watch out: your console speaks to your personality type 36 What does game console ownership say about you? Well, to me, it says that you like videogames, but according to MSN's dating & personals section, owning certain consoles may say something ab... Gamercize: Number one for choice and enjoyment 23 As a collective group, I'd say it's pretty hard for gamers to get motivated into exercising. Be it running, or picking heavy things up and putting them back down, the mere thought of moving is of... Xbox: gaming's original ugly chub undergoes surgery, becomes sleek and sexy 45 VideoGamesNude shared a beautiful (and almost unbelievable) picture of a sleek, sexy, and small original Xbox modification, though no other details were given. A little research uncovered a threa... Bargain Bin Laden #23: Metal Arms: Glitch in the System 38 Hi gang, once again I'm holding down the fort while much of the staff are out of the office, which is why I'm covering Aaron Linde's Bargain Bin Laden post for today. I'm very pleased to be able ... Does Halo 3 make it all better? 14 It is interesting to read The New York Times' view on Xbox 360 console failure problem. They say that games like Halo 3 keep repeat customers loyal, and that they keep coming back despite many ha... Bargain Bin Laden #22: Psychonauts 45 Psychonauts. Yeah, I know -- sort of like Beyond Good and Evil, one of those games that needs no introduction, that almost hourly enjoys some sort of running of the mouth by one journalist or ano... The Controller: Armchair Combat Professionals 24 Unlike the Minesweeper video from yesterday, The Controller is in fact a real movie ... a fact I'm still having a hard time believing. The movie follows William Fence, a CEO and Founder of Ciroms... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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