...By now every xbox 360 gamer is familiar with the "3 red lights of doom" metaphor. For the newbie: this is a problem associated with the sudden death of the affected xbox consoles. The consoles that display the red lights of death are defective to start with: some have bad ventilation systems and some have motherboard design flaws. The good news is that in many cases the "sudden death" is just a clinical death - you can prevent or fix some of the xbox 360s that display the 3 flashing red lights.

There are some very good solutions on the Web that do not involve waiting 6 weeks and paying a small fortune to repair the console and getting the chance to enjoy the Xbox 360 world again. By following some basic tips and or doing the repair yourself, the 3 red lights of doom do not have to spell disaster.

First of all, the 3 red light error is caused by overheate...more

Which Way Are Mobile Phone Games Heading?

...rers themselves are cashing in heavily on revenue from subscribers. You will appreciate the level of income in this are if you consider the fact that by the year 2009, there would be 220 million mobile phone game fans in the world. Now lets delve into the kinds of games we have around:

We have the embedded games that are factory coded into the phones, SMS games that operate by interacting with a SMS server upon which the game resides and browser games that are played online using the cell phones mini browser. Of all these games the cheapest and most popular is the inbuilt ones though the excitement offered by SMS and online games are not a deterrent to peop...more

10 Reasons Why Sony PlayStation 3 Will Beat Out Xbox

.... The downside is that it is bound to be hard to program.

3.The memory is 256 MB XRD for the cell and 256 MB DDR3 for the GPU.

4.The PS3 has a dual ethernet, built in wi-fi, Bluetooth, flash memory slots, and blue ray.

5.The PS3 has hardware that is more powerful than that of the Xbox 360 and will be able to produce real to life visuals.

6.The games in PS3 will be stored on Bluray discs which store 54 gigs while game space in the Xbox360 is just 9 gigs.

7.The PS3 will have international appeal and be popular with both foreign game developers and consumers. According to market whispers games on the PS3 are all set to be exciting and different.

8.The PS3 has immense ...more

Xbox 360 Red Lights - Why You Can't Just Hope Your Xbox 360 Red Lights Just Go Away!

...'s won't just go away if you leave it.
While you need to keep your Xbox 360 in a well ventilated area at all times (to avoid overheating), you should know that the Xbox 360 red lights are not really your fault. Microsoft made a mistake, which they admitted to publicly in July 2007. They had made a major design flaw which could cause the system to "fail" (i.e. there is a good chance you will experience the Xbox 360 ring of death at some point, even from 'normal' use).

What is this design flaw?
Well, Xbox 360 red lights occur, as you know, when the motherboard overheats and the GPU comes loose. Microsoft had made a decision during the development of the Xbox 360 to shrink the heat sink to make room for the DVD drive. The problem is, the heat sink is the cooling unit which is supposed to keep the motherboard cool, and since they shrunk it too much, a lot of people are getting red light errors.

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