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.

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:

An independent research study has issued their results regarding the attachment rates for each video game console. An attachment rate is taken to be the amount of games sold per console per person. After 23 months on the market, the PS3 and Wii are virtually tied, with 5.3 and 5.5 games sold per system, respectively. During that same time, the Xbox 360 was hanging high at 6.6 games sold per system.

The Xbox 360 does have the benefit of being the first kid on the block, being released a good year before the other two. However, they’ve always had an excellent attachment rate. Whereas, a good portion of Nintendo Wii owners may have never bought anything besides the pack-in Wii Sports, which would bring down their number considerably.

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. HD streaming will be available to Xbox Live Gold members only.

This is, however, only a "soft launch." Only 300 titles or so will be available at the launch of the service. That number will ramp up before too long, however.