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Microsoft is already planning for certain other Halo and Xbox-related anniversaries, but right now, the focus is on the Xbox 360 classic Halo 3: ODST. Believe it or not, but it's now been 15 years since we dropped into New Mombasa as a rookie on a mission to locate Alpha-Nine. This also...

The Xbox 360 is long gone, but the homebrew and hacking scene of a console is always searching for ways to revitalize and keep older consoles alive, and such is the case for a newly developed tool for the Xbox 360 that aims to make hard-drives compatible with the console. The original OEM hard...

Modders are making progress in opening up the Xbox 360 to non-invasive mods – which is a good thing when you consider that the console's digital store has just closed. It's been possible to mod the Xbox 360 for some time now, allowing owners to run homebrew applications and gain access to games...

Through the years those following the hacking scene have seen plenty of games exploited in order to run code and help softmod game consoles. Cubic Ninja's QR code reader was exploited to allow for the Homebrew Launcher to be installed on the Nintendo 3DS, and an edited save file of Tom Clancy's...

Yesterday, the Xbox 360 store officially closed down for good. All digital content that hadn't been brought over to the new backwards compatible storefront has now disappeared - and strangely, so has the whole store section of the Xbox 360 dashboard. Posted on Twitter late last night, down...

The fated day is here. Last August, Microsoft said they would be shutting down the Xbox 360 Marketplace forever, on July 29, 2024. With the closing down of the storefront set to happen any minute now, it's the end of an era. The Xbox 360's digital store launched in November 2005, with the...