Microsoft has codenamed the next version of the Xbox 360 motherboard Jasper. The board apparently comes with some unannounced goodies. The motherboard contains a 65nm graphics processing unit, and uses less than a 150W power supply. Jasper clocks in at 25W less than before.

More than anything, however, is the inclusion of a 256MB flash memory chip for internal storage. This should make you Xbox owners out there who don’t own a hard drive happy. Get to saving!

Microsoft has just announced that sales of the Xbox 360 have outpaced total sales of the original Xbox. This announcement comes just two days after the 360’s third birthday on November 22. Happy birthday, you loud awesome beast!

To put things in perspective, the original Xbox’s life cycle was almost four years long. The 360 has outsold it in just three years, and before another lucrative holiday season to boot. Microsoft’s continued success brings a tear to all of our eyes.

Columbia and Sony never doled out a satisfactory answer as to why their content disappeared from the Netflix portion of Xbox Live, but Columbia Pictures has made an amends. The movie giant and much of their varied content has re-appeared for instant streaming via your Xbox 360. Sony Pictures has yet to follow suit but various sources indicate it should not be long until they do. This is a great start, however. Get to streaming guys!

Kenyatta Hillman was pulled over for speeding in Orange County, California. After the police detected the odor of marijuana, they searched his car and found no trace of drugs. They did, however, decide his stolen Xbox 360 would make a fine surrogate. What’s the problem then?

It wasn’t stolen. They assumed it was because obviously people whose cars reek of drugs also steal consumer electronics devices. Hillman went to the police station later with a receipt to prove ownership of the system but the Xbox was still "lost in transit." No word on if Hillman has gotten the system back yet. I believe Flavor Flav had something to say about this. Watch the video below:

Various sources indicate that just hours before Microsoft’s Netflix-enabled Xbox 360 dashboard update hit, Sony made a lion’s share of their content unavailable for viewing on their rival’s gaming console. The same goes for Sony’s subsidiary Columbia Pictures. Netflix officials chalk it up to the "ebb and flow" of licensing agreements and say it’s only a temporary suspension. The Sony and Columbia content can still be streamed on other devices, just not on the Xbox. The console wars may be heating up again.