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10.07.2009 6:02 pm

Your views sought on Xbox 360

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For those of you sick of reading Game Guy’s diatribes on Xbox 360, let him point you to someone else’s.

This account speaks of one Xbox allegedly repaired three times — red rings of death resulting each time. Now the affected console…

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09.02.2009 6:49 pm

SquareTrade has more bad numbers for Xbox 360

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

To all those who think Game Guy has gone overboard with his criticism of Xbox 360, there’s this:

The warranty provider SquareTrade reports that Microsoft’s gaming console failed on average about 23 percent of the time after just two years of use, according…

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08.28.2009 9:39 am

Price cut is last gasp for Xbox 360

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Weeks of speculation have come to this: Microsoft is officially reducing the price of its Xbox 360 consoles starting today.

Now, you’ll be able to purchase the higher end, all-black Elite model for $299.99, down from $399.99, and the all-white Pro…

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08.21.2009 1:04 pm

Xbox 360 needs Mad Men to ride to its rescue

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Microsoft must make up its mind: Either fix Xbox 360 or hire Don Draper.

A recent survey of 5,000 readers in the September print edition of Game Informer magazine found that just over 54 percent of them have suffered an Xbox…

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06.02.2009 12:41 pm

Microsoft’s Project Natal will not succeed with Xbox 360

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It was only a matter of time.

Microsoft finally acknowledges now that maybe Nintendo had a good idea with the concept of a motion-sensitive game controller. And of course, the Redmond, Wash.-based software and gaming giant paid homage in its own…

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03.24.2009 10:43 pm

Microsoft not paying for E74 fix? Bad moon rising

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I see trouble brewing in Xbox land. Again.

Last week, Game Guy mentioned the “E74″ technical issue with Xbox 360 that was raised by Joystiq and others. The issue, defined by Microsoft as a kind of hardware failure and so named for the E74…

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03.05.2009 9:56 pm

‘Stay away from Xbox,’ someone else says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

And here I thought I was the only one who was royally irked by Xbox 360.

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03.04.2009 11:03 am

Frustration level rising with Xbox 360?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
See this? It could be just the start of your problems.

See this? It could be just the start of your problems.

Just back from a company-induced work furlough, the Game Guy was sifting through his heap of mail collected during this time when he spied this item: Apparently, Microsoft is getting…

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02.20.2009 8:15 pm

Red Xbox 360 will have matching ‘red ring of death’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

So maybe it’s true: Microsoft will start producing an Xbox 360 Elite with a red case and matching red controller in the near future.

What I want to know is, does “red” mean “better”? As in “this-one-better-not-brick better”?

Rumors of the hot-colored box clung…

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02.17.2009 10:19 am

Xbox 360 is the worst video game console in the world

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Game Guy has had enough. His patience with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console, thin at best before the weekend, dissipated entirely during the Daytona 500 on Sunday.

He was playing “NASCAR 09″ and living the racing dream through his console when…

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