Columbia Pictures Appears Again on Xbox 360 Netflix Service - Sony to Follow Suit

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.

Onyx Online - iPhone Application Seeks to Create Social Gaming Utopia

Trism developer, Steve Demeter, is readying Onyx Online for the iPhone app store. Onyx Online is being billed as hte “Xbox Live” of the iPhone community. The program promises to add social media features to iPhone games, like leaderboards, achievements and forums.

Netflix Offers HD Streaming on Xbox 360 Before Other Formats

Netflix is gearing up to offer HD streaming of their content for the Xbox 360 platform. They currently offer streaming on PCs and Macs but the service is not in high definition. The service will be available when the new Xbox dashboard hits on November 19th.

Microsoft to Release $99 60GB Xbox Live Starter Pack Next Week

According to Gamestop and a leaked Circuit City ad, a $99 60GB Xbox Live upgrade will be available starting next week. The bundle will include three months of Live Gold, a headset and a 60GB hard drive.

Sign Up Now to Experience New Xbox 360 UI Early

Microsoft is looking “for a few thousand” participants to try out their new Xbox 360 UI early. The offer is limited to Gold and Silver Xbox Live members with preference given to the Gold members.

New Xbox Experience Coming in November

Microsoft has inadvertently announced that the “New Xbox Experience”, meaning the upcoming system update, will be hitting this November.

Xbox Live Offline September 29th

Xbox Live will be offline on September 29th, at 12:01am, for the day.

Halo 3 Beta Complete

Tests for the Halo 3 Beta have now come to a finish and the results proved to be very successful. More than 820,000 users played the beta and played an equivalent of 12 million hours online.
The most interesting attraction was the new saved-film feature, which gave players the ability record their games and share them [...]

Apple VOD

Apple is in the news with rumors about a supposed video rental service due out this autumn. They already offer films for download and have distribution deals with Walt Disney and Paramount, but are in talks with major Hollywood studios at the moment.
One studio exec says that the service is looking to compete with the [...]

Pac Man. The Return

Pac Man the Original video game is making a comeback!

According to my super top secret sources, Pac Man will be reborn on Microsoft’s Xbox Live online service as a final tribute for designer Toru Iwatani, who is retiring. The new game, Pac Man Championship Edition, is the second and final version Mr Iwatani personally designed, [...]