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Microsoft has revealed the pricing on Kinect and the first allinone bundle released for it.

Eric Baehman turned his Xbox 360 into a DOOM 3 tribute

TeamXbox puts the Sharkoon XTatic True 5.1 Headset through it's paces

The U.S. price for the Kinect system has been set

The U.S. price for the Kinect system has been set

Microsoft no longer making current Xbox 360 console originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Four new videos showing off the Kinect in action

Apparently everybody was paying taxes last month instead of buying games, because despite analysts' expectations, sales for April were way down. As you can see below, sales dropped out on every single console that NPD tracked during April, with the Wii taking the biggest hit, down 50 percent from March. Hardware sales overall fell by 37 percent.

Software sales didn't do any better -- Splinter Cell Conviction was a bright spot and Super Street Fighter IV just barely made the list (which you can find after the break), but otherwise it was all leftovers from March and previous months. NPD reports that last month's 11 percent industry drop-off was the "worst year-over-year decline...since July '09, and the fourth largest year-over-year percentage decline ever." The industry got rained on -- here's hoping April showers bring some May flowers.

-DS: 441K260K (-37%)
-Wii: 277K 281K (-50%)
-360: 185K 153K (-45%)
-PS3: 181K 133K (-42%)
-PSP: 66K 54K (-44%)
-PS2 sales are no longer being tracked by NPD -- goodbye, old friend.

See the top 10 games after the break. (Note: Sales figures for the games ranked six through ten were withheld by NPD for unstated reasons.)

Continue reading April NPD: Sam Fisher's grim month

April NPD: Sam Fisher's grim month originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 13 May 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to IGN, Project Natal will launch this October

According to IGN, Project Natal will launch this October

Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, the portion of the giant company responsible for Xbox operations (as well as Zune and Games for Windows) brought in $165 million in profits during the company's third quarter of fiscal 2010, which ended March 31. In the same period last year, the division lost $41 million.

The soaring profits were a result of a record third-quarter revenue haul of $14.5 billion for Microsoft, with the E&D division accounting for $1.67 billion of that total. CFO Peter Klein cited Xbox Live as one of the factors responsible for the company's growth. In fact, Xbox Live, and the reduced cost of Xbox 360 manufacturing, helped the E&D division profit despite console shipments falling year-over-year, from 1.7 million shipments in Q3 of fiscal 2009 to 1.5 million in 2010. Tacking on to the last reported figures, Xbox 360 shipments have now surpassed 40 million units worldwide.

With so many Xbox 360 units in the wild, Microsoft's Q3 Form 10-Q document [.docx] brings up a very good point: "Our hardware products such as the Xbox 360 console are highly complex and can have defects in design, manufacture, or associated software." You don't say.

Xbox division posts $165 million profit in fiscal Q3 on strength of Xbox Live business originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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from the Microsoft Israel R&D Center comes video of the Natal in action that shows what the Natal sees, and how

The Xbox 360 controller is being used to train R/C miners

The update is here, you can now use 16gb flash drives as backup storage for your Xbox 360.

Mad Catz Cyborg F.L.Y. 9 Wireless Flight Stick for Xbox 360

Major Nelson just dropped the news that USB Support is coming on April 6th.

Microsoft has released their standalone 250gb Hard Drive for the Xbox 360.

There's a new wireless game mouse and grip for the Xbox 360 and PC, described as the "twin" to Bannco's highly rated FRAGnStein controller for the PS3.

Last week, speculation surrounding a pending announcement of the oft-rumored, slimmed down "Valhalla" model of the Xbox 360 was kicked into high gear, thanks to a Microsoft hiring notice for a motherboard engineer, and Steve Ballmer's reference to "more form factors" for the hardware. Earlier today, a Chinese tech forum purportedly posted a pair of pictures of the newly remodeled motherboard, which has undergone a massive size reduction from the current iteration of Xbox 360 hardware.

A few noteworthy changes in the motherboard (full pictures of which can be found after the jump) are a consolidated GPU/CPU (one of the rumored features of the Valhalla chipset), an extra SATA port, and a much smaller heatsink. Though the design could just be a mock-up from an extraordinarily talented modder, it certainly looks like professional-quality work. We've contacted Microsoft to see if they'll comment on the skinny-fied hardware.

Continue reading Rumor: Slimmed-down Xbox 360 motherboard images leaked

Rumor: Slimmed-down Xbox 360 motherboard images leaked originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Astro Gaming has launched the Astro A30 CrossGaming Headset, a professionalgrade crossgaming platform audio solution for gamers onthego.

A Microsoft job listing reveals that the company is looking for staff to design a new Xbox 360 motherboard. From the sound of it, the new "Motherboard Design Engineer" will be helping to design further revisions of the existing Xbox 360 architecture, rather than the hardware for a next-next-generation system. "The responsibilities of this position are focused on specifying, designing (schematic capture, PCB layout, BOM, cost analysis), implementing and verifying the mother-board and other various sub-system boards that make up the Xbox 360 product line," the job description reads.

If you're a qualified electrical engineer and want to do work that may cast you as a hero in the eyes of many, many gamers, this is your chance. Please fix the Xbox 360 motherboard once and for all!

[Thanks @GameAddict!]

You could design the next revision of the 360 motherboard originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We give a synopsis of this week's Natal news, all in one place.

Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. today announced the shipping of the WirelessN Gaming Adapter for use with the Xbox 360.

Project Natal has been listed as one of TIME Magazines Inventions of the Year.

Psyclone, XS Games, and the #1 outdoor retailer in America, Bass Pro Shops, today announced that Bass Pro Shops The Strike is now available.

Turtle Beach, the leaders in XBOX 360 gaming headsets, today announced the latest addition to their growing line of Ear Force gaming headsets the Ear Force XLC.

Xbox 360 today announced widespread enthusiasm from the worlds leading videogame publishers for Project Natal, a whole new way to play no controller required.

Microsoft announced the partnership for the special console package, which contains a lot of gear, including a hard drive you can't get any other way at this point.

Mad Catz today announced a Marvel VS Capcom 2 Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition for the Xbox 360.

Mad Catz today announced a Marvel VS Capcom 2 Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition for the Xbox 360.