The glorious software empire, upon which the sun never sets, has turned to 'Tupperware parties' to flog its Xbox360s.

Unmetered download agreements are next the battleground as games consoles follow the Apple TV's lead to support movie download services.

Play your video, photo and music files on your TV from a networked PC. We put five network players to the test

Avatars, photo sharing and hopefully fewer service outages await 360 owners with "New Xbox Experience", which carries with it the ugly acronym of "NXE".

Microsoft offers free game to make up for poor performance.

Microsoft has confirmed it has cut a "small percentage", thought to be around 600,000 gamers, off from Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games

Microsoft confirms Xbox Live movies to be delivered to Australians over the Internet to your Xbox, only this time there's not a modchip in sight.

Can price cuts make the difference for Microsoft's console? Does Blu-Ray still count? See how the console prices stack up.

Rumours about a Natal-packing Xbox have been swirling for a few days, not helped by Microsoft's own CEO. Still – the official word is there'll be no new console. But do we believe that?

Latest tool will lower development costs, says software giant.

If you thought HDDVD's demise meant a new high-def drive for the Xbox, think again.

The next version of the Xbox 360 motherboard has been spotted in the wild, and subsequently poked, prodded and pictured.

If you're buying a new 360, get an Elite - simple as that. If you've already got one, this is pretty much a cosmetic upgrade – but you might want to look into getting the separate 120GB hard drive when it comes out...

Microsoft claims to be leading the pack, and claims it's won the next gen console battle. But the Wii is hot on their heels.

A Media Center Extender, upscaling DVD player and great games console

This is a pretty decent little webcam – it's just that, without games to fool around with, it feels like a low-end PC webcam plugged into your Xbox. EyeToy this ain't

New social networking additions to Xbox Live make it even more difficult to leave the sofa

Games franchises don't get much bigger than Resident Evil, and it seems Capcom could be giving Xbox 360 owners an early taste of zombie-blasting action - a two-level demo of Resident Evil 5 could be hitting Xbox Live on 5 December.