Joystiq has come across information which confirms that a USB stick will soon be able to work on the Xbox 360. The gaming site found that "USB Mass Storage Device Support on Xbox 360" is soon to be a leading feature as "increased market penetration of high-capacity, high throughput USB mass storage devices" and also Xbox updates on local storage devices could save consumers time when updating. ... more.

Suffice to say, nobody really cares where XBox's go when they die because, well, another one dies every couple of minutes. What is cool though is the way they get to where they go when they die. When most people's XBox's get plagued by the dreaded Red Ring of Death, they throw them away or use them as projectiles in some random battle but whatever happened to a proper, old-fashioned coffin? Well A... more.

Microsoft has updated their Xbox Live Code of Conduct, or CoC -- for short. The reason behind the change in CoC was due to the 'ban' on gay, lesbos and even transgendered people. Live recently underwent a little revamp which now allows words such as lesbian, gay, bi, straight and even transgendered in your gamer tag. The big M said that you won't be able to use these words to 'harm' other playe... more.

Michael Patcher -- the big mouth analyst for gaming -- has predicted Natal pricing, incorrectly. Captain obvious here was recently interviewed by Industry Gamers where he said that he might have been wrong about the motion technology's price tag. "I probably aimed too low with my $50 Natal comment, as I’m sure that consumers will come to believe that the product and software has a lot of valu... more.

Aaron Greenberg, this dude from Microsoft, has said that the company will be very careful when creating games for Project Natal. When speaking with Destructoid, Aaron said that MSoft doesn't plan to jump onto the game market, as they will first think about what should receive games. “We are going to be very careful in the way we think about our portfolio for Project Natal,” he said. “One ... more.

Speaking to Joystiq recently at X10, Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Product Manager Aaron Greenberg suggested that the 250GB Xbox360 hard drive will mostly likely remain exclusive to limited edition bundles, such as with the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII bundle. "We did it with the Modern Warfare bundle, which, as people know, was a huge success, completely sold out," he told Joystiq. "We're excited to brin... more.

Modern Warfare 2's Care Package has already been released for PC and PS3, where Infinity Ward has now said that the Xbox version has been submitted to Microsoft for certification. The patch news was revealed through Twitter where Robert Bowling commented by saying that the glitch is now "a thing of the past." Care Package, Emergency Airdrop, and Sentry Gun marker grenades sprint speed norma... more.

If the following applies to you, you seriously need to get with the new age. Xbox Live, the original Live, will discontinue on the 15th of April 2010. Microsoft will stop the service for the original consoles and this will mean that players will have to move over to the 360. The drop of original-Xbox support will also mean that Xbox 1 games will not work on 360's Live either. Read the off... more.

The prototype version of Microsoft's Project Natal camera is pretty darn ugly. It looks like awkward big-headed thing on three legs. Put it this way, I wouldn't want that near my TV. Anyway, it's not the real thing, so they should add a bit more cosmetics to it when it's complete. Read more Natal news here. Full image here.... more.

South Africa's Xbox 360 Live matchmaking site, Gamer Lobby, has officially sent out an email that they are closing down. “Gamerlobby has been going for a few good years now and has had some very successful tournaments and events which we’re very proud of. Myself and my team do what we do for gamerlobby because we love gaming, unfortunately push has come to shove and there is just no more time... more.

Microsoft has claimed that Xbox Live users clocked up an outrageous amount of time on their service. The Windows federation said that if everyone in the world played for two hours, there will still be enough for some players to get a second chance. “In seven years, Xbox Live members have spent more than 17 billion hours on Xbox Live,” said MS’s Trixie360 on Twitter. “That’s more th... more.

Turns out that Turn 10 Studios, the creators of Forza Motorsport, are in fact working with the Natal development team from Microsoft. The evidence is once again revealed through a job listing in need of a business development manager. The listing states that the company needs someone to "set strategy and drive high quality game content for our Next Generation games including the NATAL platform.... more.

2009 was said to be an interesting year for console gaming, as new technologies saw numbers turn sales figures around. The most significant change the console world was Sony's PS3 Slim which boasted reduced pricing and more compactness. The PS3 Slim allowed Sony to enter a market which would be a lot more competitive for Microsoft as the pricing would be very similar. Following the console... more.

The New York Times, that news paper in New York..., said that ESPN and Microsoft are currently exchanging words regarding a subscription based service for Xbox Live. The service will allow the user to stream live sporting events through the Xbox opposed to the usual cable TV connection. We have a short snippet from the article, and it states that this has not yet been confirmed, however the sou... more.

Sony has said that their new PS3 with a 250GB hard drive will launch in Japan during the February month. The new 250GB console has already been released before, but that was in a special edition series. The 250GB PS3 will now be the standard unit available. Following a 250GB PS3 will be a 250GB version of the Xbox 360. The current Xbox Elite boasts a 120GB HDD, where the new year should see an ... more.