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Oct 23, 2012

Xbox Users Give Final Debate to Obama

Undecided voters who watched last night’s presidential debate on an Xbox said President Obama is better suited than Republican nominee Mitt Romney to handle the United States’ foreign affairs.

Oct 17, 2012

Toasty! Xbox Users Pick Obama in Second Presidential Debate

People who watched last night’s presidential debate on their Xboxes declared President Obama the winner by an overwhelming margin.

Oct 12, 2012

Biden Pwns Ryan in Debate, According to Xbox Users

People who watched last night’s vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on their Xbox video game systems overwhelmingly favored the incumbent.

Oct 05, 2012

Xbox Users Broke Hard for Romney During First Debate

Like the rest of the population, Xbox users who watched the first presidential debate over their video-game systems thought Mitt Romney beat President Obama handily.

Oct 02, 2012

Microsoft Wades Into Election With Xbox Polling and Live Debate Coverage

As Election Day draws nearer, Microsoft is getting into the polling business by turning its millions of Xbox Live subscribers into potentially the nation’s largest focus group.

Oct 11, 2007

Gilbert Arenas is Cheating at Halo 3

Via our tipline comes a disturbing allegation about Washington’s beloved NBA all-star, Gilbert Arenas. Game-fixing! Encouraging teammates to take dives to pad his own stats! And an unrepentant attitude that makes it all that much worse. Of course, the competitive enterprise in question is Halo 3, not NBA basketball. But that makes it no less disturbing. The allegations of Agent Zero’s ill-gotten swag surfaced this morning on the forums of Bungie, the company responsible for…

Dec 10, 2004

Pandora’s Cube Opens Pandora’s Box

We missed this tidbit, but boingboing, via selfaudit via Reuters, points us in the direction of news of a federal raid earlier this month on three Pandora’s Cube stores in the suburbs where the stores were selling — in plain view mind you — Xbox videogame consoles that had been modified to use pirated software. DCist can safely say that this is a stupid move, not only to jerry-rig an Xbox to play unauthorized software,…

 
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