Xboxic interviews 360 firmware hacker
Friday, March 24, 2006
After all the confusion of the last week over the Xbox 360 DVD firmware hack, people started launching the wildest theories on the internet about the implications of what has been achieved. Read the full interview
X360 hack is useless - says a well known hacker
Microsoft has greeted reports of a hack to run pirated Xbox 360 games by claiming that the "core security system" is intact - and, unusually, the hackers themselves seem to be in agreement.
Last week, hackers said they had fooled an Xbox 360 into running a copied version of Project Gotham Racing 3 by modifying the DVD drive firmware, which was apparently left relatively unprotected, so that it sidestepped an authentication routine. Video footage of the game booting seemed to confirm this. Read full story
Xbox 360 Camera Specs
Xbox 360 Camera Specs - More info about the 360's Camera have been released today at the Game Developers Conference and IGN appears to have all the specs here
XBOX 360 - Set for an update to multimedia features
In an online interview, Microsoft’s Scott Henson has claimed that the company is considering possibly improvements to the Xbox 360 software. Henson, who is director of Microsoft’s Game Technology Group, refused to name specifics, but mentioned that the improvements are likely to be based on customer response. Top user requests include upgrades to the music player and support for streaming movie and music playback from all PCs, rather than just those running Microsoft’s Windows Media Centre software. Read full story
