Microsoft has just released its new hot product on the market the new Xbox 360 250GB Console. The new design is 17% smaller than the original design and it’s ditched the matte-plastic encasing for a sleeker finger print grabbing glossy black finish.

The new 360 S has addressed a lot of the issues of the previous model and brought it up to the standards of the other consoles out with a heap of new added features.

Features

The new 360 S has addressed a lot of the complaints voiced by the Xbox community. The new console comes packed with a 250GB HDD, built in Wi-Fi that can support up to 802.11n, five USB slots and an extra slot for Microsoft Kinect.

Although the system hasn’t upgraded to any blu-ray capabilities it has added a lot of ports on the back to allow for some of the more modern connections like the now on-board optical audio-out port that can be used with an HDMI, component, or composite video connection.

Operation

One major point the Microsoft team was trying to push was the new “whisper-quiet” operation which might be a bit of an exaggeration but it’s still much quieter than the older system. When system is idle it’s dead silent and still very quite when the disc drive is running which is a huge improvement over the old system.

For those worried about the red rings of death which was the biggest problem seen in the original system rest assured that this new system does have a better cooling system with perforated vents just above the exhaust fan which is attached to the systems GPU.

Halo Reach the soon to be released epic expansion on the Halo Franchise was just released in Beta and early reports are saying good things about the upcoming new halo game which has finally taken a more multi-player oriented approach.

The new Halo game is available for pre-order now and its set to be an epic and fun expansion on the already popular series.

The Xbox 360 2010 Spring Bundle is now on sale retailing for its normal price of $299.99. In the bundle this year are two of the year’s best sellers Halo: ODST and Forza Motorsport 3.

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NCAA Football 11, EA’s flagship sports game has hit number 11 and with all new graphics and upgraded game play its set to be the best in the series so far.

What IGN.com had to say about it:

For as long as I can remember, NCAA Football has been the red-headed stepchild of the EA Sports empire of popular franchises. It has always sold and performed well once players got the controller in their hands, but there’s always been a gap of sorts when it came to comparing NCAA to EA Sports’ other mega-popular football franchise known as Madden. Well, wave goodbye to all that. EA Sports and the team at Tiburon in Orlando have gone to great lengths to separate the two products. NCAA Football 11 is the fruits of their labor.

The first and most immediately evident sign that you’re playing a standalone football title is the new visual treatment that they’ve given NCAA 11. Overall, everything looks more realistic than it ever has before. The new lighting system brings great detail to the player models and their animations are more fluid and more realistic than I’ve seen prior. You’ll notice cool details like player’s faces grimacing as the opposing running back smokes by them for a quick score and the pain on a quarterback’s face comes through in a big way once you see your first field-level replay of a sack.

Some of that authentic feeling probably has to do with the new ESPN graphics package that the game uses. The transitions are right out of something you’d see on Saturday; now, I just wish that Herbstreit and Nessler could keep up. Their commentary has gone in the wrong direction since last year and, believe it or not, I actually miss Lee Corso being in the box with them.

Rating 5 Stars

Rating: 5 Stars

Here is what John Birmingham over at smh.com.au thought about red dead redemtion:

At first, the game presents as a faithful homage to the Western as remembered in the earlier films of John Wayne and pretty much the entire back catalogue of John Ford. A lone rider, John Marston, A Man With A Past, arrives in a dusty town, familiar from hundreds if not thousands of Wild West genre pieces. The established memes begin folding in on themselves very quickly, however, as we learn Marston is being blackmailed into hunting down the former members of the gang he led as an outlaw. The blackmailers are government agents.

In this, Redemption’s principal writer, Dan Houser, happily acknowledges the debt owed to Nick Cave’s widely unwatched Australian vengeance western, The Proposition, another tale of a one-time outlaw trapped by familial connections and forced into a devil’s bargain with agents of the state. The sense of friction that comes from a civilisation fraying at its edges, where it rubs up hard against brute creation and the true, Hobbesian nature of humanity, recalls HBO’s brilliant TV series, Deadwood. Here too the irreducible essence of the Law is nothing more than overwhelming violence sanctioned at vast remove by consent of the governed.

As the ethically challenged but admirably clear-headed Federal Agent Edgar Ross puts it, “We’re the bad guys. We enforce the rules. And while the rules may not be… perfect, the alternative is hell.”