If you were unfortunate enough to experienced the Red Ring of Death on your beloved Xbox 360 and even more unfortunate enough to have it happen a 2nd or 3rd time, maybe it’s time you start sporting your hard earned achievement with a rather fitting t-shirt that proudly announces to the world your gaming prowess. That’s right, an actual t-shirt that shows an Xbox live achievement bubble complete with congratulatory wording for the RRoD. While it isn’t...

If you wanted a slap in the face to rocket you back into the sad sick little world that *used* to be the Xbox 360, a non-scientific poll (paper only) conducted by Game Informer revealed that the failure rate on Xbox 360′s (presumably pre-die shrink to the smaller more efficient processors) was 54%! I don’t care who you are or what company you run, a 54% failure rate is beyond god awful. Of course, such claims can’t be verified by Redmond themselves as...

Depending on how you view the RRoD, as well as if you’ve personally had the misfortune of meeting them, the RRoD coasters may or may not be your thing. For some of you who have met the RRoD, (some of you more than once…*raises hand*), you’re all too familiar with the vast amounts of waiting that it entitles to get your gaming beast serviced, missing out on countless hours of gaming enjoyment. On the other side of the coin, if you have somehow managed to...

While the whole RRoD (Red Ring of Death) scare has now been quelled, with new stories drastically lower than a mere year ago, some would think that the problem is gone and that Xbox 360 users are safe to venture into the world of non-stop gaming filled with Red Bull full nights and bed ridden days.  If you were the owner of an the older “First Gen” 360 units, you may be all too familiar with the 90 nm chips that were inside those units.  It was that size that...

It seems as if only yesterday, the “Red Rings of Death” were in the forefront of tech news.  Xbox 360 users from far and wide were experiencing system maiming glitches in which the only solution was to wait a small eternity to get your fixed unit back.  Microsoft so far has payed dearly for the ‘ol RRoD to the tune of $1 billion+ to make good on their warranty claims.  With RRoD behind them, all was looking peachy for them.  That was until E74 started...