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The first UK retail listings for the Xbox 360 Slim have gone live with a pre-order price of 199, mirroring Microsoft’s promise that the new design will cost the same as the existing hardware. Play.com is the first UK retailer to begin taking orders on the unit, but expect others …
Read More »E3 2010: Xbox 360 Slim Arcade coming
With the $299 Xbox 360 Slim already making its way to the North American High Street, Microsoft has confirmed that a second model is also in the works. In the same way that the old machine came in two versions – a high-end Elite model and an entry-level Arcade SKU …
Read More »E3 2010: Microsoft roundup
A release date for Kinect and a brand new Xbox that’s already on the way to retailers – those are the headlines from an energetic E3 press conference from platform holder Microsoft. However, the elusive RRP for Kinect remains a mystery for now. Though we’d already seen pictures of the …
Read More »XBOX: UK suffers Xbox Slim wait
It looks at as if the new Xbox 360 Slim won’t make it to UK retail until July 16th. The news comes from the producer of Xbox Live show Inside Xbox, who said the following via Twitter after the show: Looks like a July 16th launch in Europe for the …
Read More »E3 2010: Xbox 360 Slim set for tonight
The same Italian website that outed the Kinetic rebrand for Microsoft’s Natal hours before Microsoft officially revealed the moniker at its E3 press conference has published the first pictures of the Xbox 360 redesign set for tonight’s E3 ress conference. A now-removed ad running at console-tribe.com showed a picture of …
Read More »Xbox 360 Slim a possibility for E3
A few months ago it was one of the hottest rumours in the games industry, but the Xbox 360 Slim seems to have dropped off of the radar – until now. Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian reckons that an appearance for the new machine at E3 next week is …
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