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April 6th Xbox 360 Update Features USB Mass Storage Support
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Anyone could of guessed that this was going to happen, but now Major Nelson has made it official: mass storage is finally coming to the Xbox 360. There will be a system update on April 6th, which will allow up to two simultaneous USB flash drives plugged into the system, which will be capable of storing profiles, game saves, demos, “and more.” The maximum size supported is 16GB, and even though regular USB hard drives will be supported, they’ll be up against the same size cap, and their performance will suffer as well. You will also have to format the drive before you are able to use it in More >
Microsoft Enabling USB Mass Storage For Xbox 360
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Joystiq obtained leaked information in the form of a document that suggests that the Xbox 360 will support USB mass storage devices in the near future. The screenshots reveal support for externally connected devices that are well over the 512 MB capacity of Microsoft’s current Xbox 360 memory units which are pretty low in terms of memory and on the road to being obsolete. The document which is written by a senior software development engineer at Microsoft stats that due to “increased market penetration of high-capacity, high throughput USB mass storage devices, a 2010 Xbox 360 system update” More >
Xbox 360 Slim Possibly In The Works
1Earlier, a user on the Chinese message board A9VG leaked images of what seems to be a significantly downsized motherboard for Microsoft’s next hardware revision, as well as the CPU/GPU combination chip. Microsoft could be following Sony’s lead by redesigning the Xbox 360 much like Sony redesigned their Playstation 3 into a PS3 Slim which sold more than a million systems in less than three weeks.
The first image in the thread shows the entire motherboard, which seems to be more compact and closer to a square than the system’s current configuration.
The second image shows exactly what’s More >
Steam Officially Coming to The Mac With Free Syncing
0March 14, 2010
The word is out and it is official, no more teasing, Valve’s digital distribution service, Steam is coming to the Mac OS X and bringing Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, portal, and the Half-Life series (along with Source) with it this April. As a bonus to making Steam Mac compatible, the company also plans to make the Mac a “tier-1″ platform, promising simultaneous releases of games for the Mac OS X, Windows, and Xbox 360. Portal 2 will be the first game that will be released (planned to be released later this year) that will release on Mac and Windows simultaneously. Another More >
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