Xbox 360 price in USA 2012

Xbox 360 is one of the best gadget for games. The full list of pack-ins includes: the 250Gb hard drive-edition Xbox 360, two wireless controllers, three months of free access to Xbox Live Gold, a physical copy of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition, digital copies of Halo: Reach, Gears of War 2 and Fable 3, and the secure knowledge that you’re in the good company of more than 60 million gamers worldwide.

If you interested for Xbox 360, Now you can buy Xbox 360 in USA. How much Xbox 360 price in USA 2012 ? Xbox 360 price in USA 2012, It’s going for a preorder price of 280 Euros Xbox 360 price in Europe or about $370 US Xbox 360 price in USA 2012, though you’re unlikely to see this exact bundle cross the pond any time soon.

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PRICE UPDATE Xbox 360 Special Edition  :

The Xbox 360 Special Edition 4GB Kinect Family Bundle, as it’s called, has begun shipping today and is already temporarily sold out on Amazon. In addition to the hardware mentioned above, the bundle packs a copy each of Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures along with three months of complimentary Xbox Live subscription, all for $299.99.


If you need an extra Xbox 360 game controller to go with the bundle or simply want one white controller for your existing setup just to be different, you can purchase it separately for $49.99.

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Xbox 720 Features

Their next generation user interface has come to Xbox 720 Features and it changes everything - but unless you're paying attention it could be years before you notice.

"First, we had the blades," says Microsoft's Live Growth Exec Robin Burrowes, "and it was great. But as more and more content was added to the Marketplace it got harder and harder to find what you wanted.

Then in 2008 we moved to what we called the 'New Xbox 720 Features Experience' which - in theory - made things easier to discover. But now we're expanding our content beyond gaming into entertainment services - services we're only beginning to realise in the UK. We're building this new dashboard to future proof for the next few years of Live services." "Future proof" is the point.

When the next generation rolls around it will be powered by a Metro-styled UI, just like 2012's Windows 8 and every mobile phone Microsoft make with HTC and Nokia. The first principles of Microsoft's new UI were introduced back in 2006 in the Zune media player, just one year after the release of 360.

The first generation of Zunes used large, bold, screen-filling text in a clean and modern font. Elements of the new design gradually trickled down into other Microsoft products - most notably, MSN Messenger - before getting the Metro name and becoming its own "design language" for Windows Phone 7 with the same "live tiles" you're using in your new Xbox 720 Features dashboard.In the original design book for Windows Phone 7, Metro's designers define Metro by saying:

"We think content should be elevated, and everything else should be minimised. Content is UI and users should be able to interact directly. Simple as that." It took them an entire book to make their point, but it's this one idea that made Metro perfect for 360

"I think it's about the ease of finding a greater breadth of content quicker," says Burrowes, "that's been it for us. The content within the Live Marketplace and the content available On Demand is fairly limitless. With the new interface the most important channels and slots can bubble to the top, but if you want to... discover, we're making that easy, too."

In its transition to 360 the Metro interface has dropped touch controls in favour of full Kinect support - voice and gestures can operate every page of the new interface without switching to a separate Kinect mode. It's an obvious move.

The next Xbox 720 Features - we'll call it Xbox 720 Features 720 for lack of a better name - will come bundled with Kinect and be sold on day one as a console for the hardcore and a media device that can power your entire life. The next version of Kinect - certainly smaller and better than the current model, running with the processing grunt to let it track multiple users right down to their fingers - will be at the very centre of the next console, as will some version of the Metro UI.

The new interface is built to turn 360 into a media hub and the next console is unlikely to be anything but a sleek black box through which everything on your telly flows. Like existing home theatre PCs, it'll connect to your Sky+ or Tivo box, stream video from the internet, and support every On Demand service Microsoft can sign contracts on.

On Demand video is a front-and-centre feature for the new dashboard, with UFC and ESPN already up and running in the US, and the BBC and Channel 4 over here. Offering YouTube and free OD TV is how Microsoft will snare new buyers, but their Zune On Demand service - another in-your-face feature - is how they'll make money from them and steal control of the living room from Apple and Sony.

The new Metro dashboard makes one thing very clear - Microsoft still want you to buy stuff, and if you're not buying stuff then you'd better be prepared to watch advertisements for stuff you don't want to buy.

The Xbox 720 Features could have been given a fully-customisable dashboard long ago if Microsoft wanted it, but both the NXE and Metro dashboards thrust paid advertising and promotions in your face and that's only set to continue on 720.

Microsoft also know that day one console buyers are the hardest of hardcore, which is why the Metro dashboard is already designed for core players - even if it's still hamstrung by the original Xbox 720 Features's Friends List.

The 360 had to support original Xbox 720 Features games on Live so the Friends List stayed capped at 100, but those Live servers closed in 2010 and yet the cap still remains. Microsoft seem attached to the 100-name limit, but with Facebook and Twitter right there on the front page don't be surprised when the next Xbox 720 Features ties your Facebook login, Gamertag, and Twitter account together. When that happens, the 100-name limit has to go.

For now, says Burrowes, the Xbox 720 Features's Metro-styled dashboard is as good as a user interface can be. "We've learned a lot from the Windows phone services in terms of user's ability to discover content through the hubs. That's something that we're bringing into the console, and yes we expect this version of the dash to be like this for a while."

For a while, sure, but the Xbox 720 Features is always evolving and always changing to meet the needs of an unpredictable future. When the Kinect-powered Holodesk and Omnitouch prototypes evolve you'll see an interface which can spring from the TV - an Augmented Reality HUD in a pair of 3D specs and virtual controls laid out on your coffee table.

This isn't ten years away. The technology exists today. And when it arrives, the Xbox 720 Features will adapt - again.

Xbox 360 Features

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New Xbox 360 Features

WWE 12 – The Road to Wrestlemania is a Disappointing Miss
Every year, sports gaming publishers upgrade their roster of titles. Typically, these releases tote colorful words like “revolutionary”, “enhanced”, “new modes” or “upgraded engine”. Yet, these boastful words rarely come to fruition (except in the case of NBA 2K11). After years of Smackdown vs. RAW titles, THQ decided to revamp the wrestling brand by releasing WWE 12. This game heralded all the great sports-sequel buzzwords. While in-your-face wrestling has never felt more brutal, several nagging issues with the gameplay hurt this from being the “revolutionary” title it could have been. The newly “enhanced” Road to Wrestlemania story mode does more to harm the franchise than help it. Also, WWE 12 suffers from a disturbingly bad counter system that will make you rue the day “AI” was created.

Ladder matches, Hell in a Cell, Battle Royals, Steel Cage slobberknockers – it’s all there in the exhibition mode. WWE 12 gives gamers a rich roster of wrestlers to choose from, which includes the DIVAS. In typical WWE fashion, the game gives you the fancy entrance sequences you’ve come to love the first time you play with each character (then you’ll probably skip through them to get straight to the action). Textures and character models look true to life. Now, it’s time to pummel your opponent’s stamina down to nothing and then land the three-count pin for the win. Once you enter your first match, however, you’ll notice one of the most irritating issues with WWE 12. Counters are nearly impossible to perform.

The counter option frequently comes up to alert you to press RT to initiate a reversal. It passes by in what can only be considered a nanosecond. Often, you will find yourself focused so intently on waiting for the counter option to come up that the fun of wrestling is lost. What makes this more irritating is that the AI opponents have no difficulty in initiating a counter. It makes computer matches less of a tactical game and more of a game of self-torture. Thankfully, you can always play with friends for less painful matches.

The create-your-own player mode is back and this time there is even a create-your-own arena mode. It’s a nice touch.

The big update to the wrestling franchise comes with the new story mode. Instead of a created player rising through the dregs of the wrestling world to eventually land a headlining spot at Wrestlemania, you are given a contrived story that focuses on Sheamus and Triple H. The story then shifts over to a created player. Previous games had smaller story moments, where factions and alliances shifted frequently. This game is focused on one contiguous story arc. Unfortunately, this story is as linear as it gets. And, within a wrestling setting it creates a very disruptive gaming experience that leaves you feeling unfulfilled each time.

Too often, matches don’t end with a pin. Instead, other wrestlers will run into the ring to disrupt the match. At other times, the gameplay will shift completely to a backstage fight. This would be fine if it happened once or twice. However, it occurs way too often. Getting disqualified or winning by disqualification just feels like a waste of time.

Perhaps this updated Road to Wrestlemania mode would have been a great idea if you had more control of the outcome of the story. The gameplay would feel more organic. However, control is completely tossed out the window. Sometimes the option to pin an opponent or tag out is disabled without warning. If you’re not expecting it (as I wasn’t), it will be extremely frustrating. It happens so often that you’ll start to get lazy about the actual match as you wait for the cut scene to steal the gameplay from you.

WWE 12 is a major miss for the wrestling franchise. If you’re fine with just playing against friends and online then you’re golden. Outside of the counters, grapples and signature moves work great. In the past, signature moves would interrupt combat. However, the engine has been revamped to limit that problem. Characters won’t magically jump from one part of the screen to another. Just remember that in the Road to Wrestlemania mode, the cut scenes will interrupt the action. New players to the franchise may not mind this, but loyal players will be more irritated by the lack of flexibility in this game. If you’re looking for a new wrestling game this year, I would suggest WWE All Stars first. It’s arcade wrestling as opposed to the more realistic simulation found in WWE 12, but it’s super satisfying. It will also hold you over for the imminent release of WWE 13 in 2012.

Live Verizon FiOS TV For Xbox 360 With Kinect Control Review

Verizon details live FiOS TV service for Xbox 360 and kicking off Xbox 360 streaming TV with 26 channels for subscribers. Kinect voice and gesture commands functionality will come with the service. With your FiOS TV Prime HD, you’ll get over 30,000 VOD titles per month, over 7,000 of these in HD nd 195 all-digital channels with 50+ of them in HD, and if you’re in NY, you get 315+ channels with FiOS TV Extreme HD, and 75+ channels in HD. You can get its FiOS Triple Play package including FiOS internet, TV and phone, a year of Xbox Live Gold for $89.99 a month if you sign up before January 21st nd Verizon will also throw in the new anniversary edition of Halo.

Verizon continues to expand the borderless lifestyle for consumers with the announcement of a new offer that makes a selection of live, FiOS TV channels available over the Xbox 360 Entertainment System. Through a collaboration between Verizon and Microsoft, customers who are Xbox LIVE Gold members and who subscribe to both FiOS TV and Internet service will be able to view select live channels through their Xbox consoles. No extra hardware is required. And for the first time, these customers will be able to integrate their TV experience with voice and gesture commands through Kinect for Xbox 360. New customers who sign up online for FiOS TV service can take advantage of a special offer that includes triple-play service with FiOS TV, FiOS 35/35 Mbps Internet service and Verizon voice service, starting at $89.99 a month. In addition, the offer includes a 12-month Xbox LIVE Gold Membership and the Xbox Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary game. The discounted offer is available through Jan. 21. "Joining forces with Microsoft and Xbox, we are breaking the boundaries between TV and gaming, and furthering the borderless lifestyle Verizon customers enjoy with our new offers and services," said Eric Bruno, vice president of consumer and mass business product management for Verizon. "We are putting the controls in our customers' hands, and giving them the ability to watch TV on another dynamic device that they can control with voice and gesture commands." "Whether it's your Xbox, your mobile device, your PC or your traditional television, Verizon will continue to deliver the programming consumers want, where, where and how they want it," Bruno said. FiOS TV customers will have access to an app on their Xbox consoles, which will become available for download next month. Once customers download the Verizon FiOS TV app on their console, they can begin watching live streaming FiOS TV channels – without the need to pay for another set-top box.

Customers must subscribe to both FiOS TV and Internet services. Initially, 26 FiOS TV channels will be available, depending on the customer's TV package. Customers who order FiOS TV and Internet service will receive the Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary game and Xbox LIVE Gold Membership token within 30 days. As part of the offer, Verizon has partnered with leading gaming network Machinima to sponsor the Gamers' Choice Award. The award is given out during Machinima's Inside Gaming Awards, an annual event honoring the top game titles, which will be streamed live through Machinima's YouTube channel on Dec. 9. Consumers can vote for their favorite game of the year through Facebook or on Twitter by using the FiOSGamers hashtag, which also qualifies as entry into a sweepstakes that includes a grand prize of two years of Verizon FiOS triple-play service, a multi-room DVR, a Microsoft Kinect and 40,000 Microsoft points. Daily prizes of 4,000 Microsoft gaming points will be awarded to five winners per day, from Nov. 29 - Dec. 8. Verizon continues to break boundaries with a variety of pioneering innovations. The company provides next-generation interactive services, including Flex View and FiOS TV Online, which extend FiOS TV beyond the home to the Internet and a range of mobile devices; an advanced interactive media guide; free interactive applications like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others; Media Manager, which allows customers to access on their TVs personal photos, music and videos from their computers; and In-Home Agent, which assists customers in diagnosing and resolving a range of service issues. In addition, the company recently introduced the MY FiOS app, an easy-to-use mobile application that gives customers access to everything from movies, TV shows and personal content; to remote DVR access and control; to home and energy monitoring; to billing, account management and customer service tools.

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