The Xbox 360 – still the top selling HD console – has been plagued with hardware problems, largely a result of shoddy design and poor manufacturing. While the prevalence of the ominous “Red Ring of Death” has lessened (some say to make way for the now more common e74 error), Xbox 360’s do still die. Thankfully, after acknowledging  the problem, …

Late on Friday afternoon I received an email in my inbox that should have made me a little happy, you see I was chosen to participate in the Xbox Live update preview (along with half the planet). But at least I was going to be able to post some first hand reports on the incoming dashboard update… but there is …

I knew this story was going to be hitting the Internet I just didn’t expect me to be the one who posted it first. Early this morning the update arrived on my local console and I was prompted to install it as required. The installation went smoothly and was completed really quickly so I was pretty impressed so far. Then …

Who could ever forgot how Microsoft had to shoot themselves in the foot when they announced that they would be extending the warranty for the Red Rings of Death, Demise, Doom and a whole lot of other words starting with “D”. So basically, as most of us know, the E74 is the new RROD. The good news is that Microsoft …

The RROD issue has plagued the Xbox 360 since it’s conception and while the problem hasn’t completely disappeared there has been a noticeable decline in it’s occurrence. However there is a new beast in town that I personally have seen before, the previously innocuous E74 which normally meant an unseated or faulty AV cable has now become a lot more …