Well, my 360 died yet AGAIN. About a month ago, my replacement Xbox 360 DVD drive quit reading. I borrowed a friend's 360 (yeah, that's a true friend!) until mine was repaired. The repair process took a month. It took 2 weeks to get approval for warranty repair, even though the unit was less t ...
Well, my console finally bit the bullet. It was a sad day in Maniac-land, my box would freeze every 5 minutes, with odd graphic squares, lines and/or fuzz on the screen. I was sure the GPU finally fried from overheating. Panic resulted in buying a new Core system to hold me over until I got this one ...
NEW! Instructional videos with full online support to repair your 360 yourself in less than an hour: Xbox 360 Three Red Light Repair James at joystiq fixed his own 360 that was flashing three red lights, which indicates an internal error. If you have this problem try this simple fix ...
Here is another Best Buy insider leaked document. This one is dated today, December 20th shows they'll be getting more 360s in this week. The stores are instructed to secure the shipment and sell the product the next day. They will print vouchers and give them to you when you walk in the store, ...
There are other rumors flying around this week about 360s being available at Sam's club and Circuit City. Sam's club dates have ranged from Dec 12 to the 15 and as late as the 17th or 18th. You may want to call your local Samsclub to see if you can get shipment details. If not, just show up eve ...
A WalMart employee gives us a peek into the "WalMart Wire" info for 360 shipments for this month. These are harder to snag due to shipping arrivals during the day. However, the numbers look pretty promising, especially for next week: WM Week 45(week of Dec.3) 9500 Units Avg:3 units per sto ...
Here's another retailer insider leak, this time for Target stores. There is no scanned document to back this up, but a Target employee has claimed an email from Target HQ shows more 360s to be available this week and next week. Other employees have backed up this claim. The numbers are as fo ...
Regarding the Best Buy Dec 18th Sale, here is an official list of stores and the number of Xbox 360 console that will be available on this Sunday. Go to BestBuy's store locator and find out what store number(s) of the Best Buy store(s) you want to try this weekend. The store numbers are listed be ...
The Register has an interesting article about the 360 vs. the PS3. They say it boils down to disk media each console uses. The 360 uses DVD, while the PS3 is reportedly going to support Blu-Ray. An interesting read, but I disagree about the disk format being the deciding factor. I think whic ...
"This Friday, Dec. 9th, strictly limited quantities of Xbox 360 will be available at all Best Buy stores throughout Canada. There'll be a minimum of 10 units per stores, all available on a first come first served basis. Our doors open promptly at 9 AM, so come early. Sorry, no pre-orders or rain ch ...
