Best Buy to Offer Cheaper Xbox 360 Special Edition Bundles Starting August 1st
When it comes to the special edition consoles, they aren’t cheap. Then again, they’re special, and they include more in the box than you’d normally get in just the “stock” box. So, that makes sense. So when they go on any kind of sale, you can see why we’d get pretty excited. Thanks to Best Buy, some of the two hottest special edition consoles out there are going on a nice sale, but you’ll have …

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Microsoft’s ‘Avatar’ Project Builds on ‘Kinect’
While Microsoft’s Kinect for its Xbox 360 game console uses your body movements as input, the opposite may eventually be true: Microsoft debuted a video of a robotic “avatar” that may interact with humans.

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Metalocalypse Game for Xbox 360, PS3 Canceled
The Metalocalypse game that was to be released by Konami has been canceled, according to online reports. Based on the Adult Swim series, Metalocalypse: Dethgame was to be a beat-em-up released digitally on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It was being developed by Kick-Ass and Screwjumper! developer Frozen Codebase .

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Xbox 360 Fancast 174 — The High Price
Kinect is expensive. We know that now, and we talk about it on this week’s episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast. We also talk Limbo , Street Fighter X Tekken and Halo: Reach ‘s Forge World . Also, Alexander complains about picking flowers in Red Dead Redemption . Thanks, to @thriftynerd for the great podcast art! [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes (MP3). [ Zune ] Subscribe to the …

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Medal of Honor beta ending tomorrow on PS3 and PC, August 9 on 360
All good things must come to an end, friends, but — wait a second, is war really a good thing? We guess not. In that case — hey, great news ! The virtual streets of Kabul are about to become a great deal more peaceful, as the Medal of Honor beta is slated to come to an abrupt stop tomorrow on PS3 and PC, and August 9 on Xbox 360. We know you’re sad, but think about all the good you’ve done …

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