Microsoft announced back in August that Twitter and Facebook would be coming to the Xbox 360 dashboard. Microsoft announced that the update will be released in mid November in the UK. A beta for the update will start at some point between the 15th and 31st October in the US. Thus will add functionality for both Twitter and Facebook to the dashboard. Perfect timing for commercials that would air just prior to Black Friday's holiday shopping madness.

The 2001 blockbuster video-game release, Halo, was just the beginning for game developer Bungie. About 2.5 million people bought the latest Halo 3: ODST game since its release two weeks ago. Now there are some retail offspring in the works: action figures, videos, comics and books.

In a move made almost mandatory by the recent announcement of the PS3 Slim and a $100 price cut by Sony, Microsoft announced Thursday that the price of the Xbox 360 Elite, the high-end model with a 120GB hard drive, will be dropped by $100 to $299.

The Xbox Elite price will be cut by $100 and Xbox 360 Pro will have its price dropped by $50. At least this is the rumor that was stirred by a Target ad that was leaked Tuesday morning.

Project Natal, which is going to work with all current and past versions of Xbox 360 seems to be taking shot at Wii Fit. You play project natal hands free.

All right, don't get the wrong idea. These so-called Xbox shoes are not affiliated in any way, shape, or form with Microsoft. You would think, for the price, these xbox shoes would have a built-in remote or something, but no. They are custom sneakers and made by Sole Junkie.

Driven by record sales at retail along with an 84 percent jump in online consumer spending; global install base lead over PlayStation 3 expands to more than 8 million units.

A tough economy is casting a shadow over many people’s gift-giving list right now, providing a question mark as to how they will spend their hard-earned cash this holiday season. To better understand how America’s shopping and entertainment habits are evolving this year, Microsoft Corp. collaborated with Ipsos1and StrategyOne2 to produce the Xbox 360 Holiday Entertainment Survey.

Microsoft update informs the video game lovers that the new Xbox experience release time is tomorrow. On Nov. 19, more than 50 years after that dramatic shift, a new era in home entertainment begins with the New Xbox Experience as millions of Xbox 360™ consoles will transform instantly through the power of software.

As part of yesterday's in-depth analysis of new Nintendo-published graphs on the state of the market, Gamasutra has calculated the attach rate (also known as 'tie ratios' -- the number of games sold per console) for both first and third-party titles on Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360.

New singing game offers 40 songs spanning genres and decades from artists including Beyoncé, Lupe Fiasco, Nirvana and Rascal Flatts, and two wireless microphones, for $69.99.

Last week's Xbox 360 price cuts in the U.S. have resulted in (unsurprising) a spike in sales in the U.S., with some (surprisingly!) seeing up to 600% higher sales of some models between September 5th and September 7th (the weekend of the drop). Overall, retailers are showing a doubling of sales of all Xbox models combined (according to Microsoft, natch).