The creators of a popular Dark Souls 2 lighting mod are experimenting with path tracing and, oh boy, it no longer looks like an Xbox 360 game

Dark Souls 2 is the second-best Dark Souls game and that's fairly uncontroversial. But it's also famously the most ugly. Chief among the complaints people have about Dark Souls 2, is that the game's ...
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Xbox Hacks

[Androxilogin] had a problem. An Xbox 360 Slim had shown up in the post, but failed to give much more than a beep when turned on. Disassembly revealed some missing components, but replacing them ...
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Xbox Sparks Confusion With $5 Gift Cards For 'Participating In The Black Ops 7 Campaign'

At the time, Microsoft was offering a $5 Xbox Gift Card along with a Dual 2XP Bonus as an incentive for picking up the Vault Edition Upgrade, which appears to be why players are suddenly receiving ...
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Fixing A Destroyed XBox 360 Development Kit

As common as the Xbox 360 was, the development kits (XDKs) for these consoles are significantly less so. This makes it even more tragic when someone performs a botched surgery on one of these rare ...