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Halo Waypoint detailed, captured on video

With the Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard update preview kicking off today, Microsoft dropped some more details on Halo Waypoint, the Dashboard playpen for the Master Chief enthusiasts among you. The preview video – found after the break – walks you through some of the destination's functionality, notably the "career system" which will track "in-game accomplishments across multiple Halo games." Unsurprisingly, that career will be limited to the Xbox 360-released Halo games: Halo 3, Halo Wars, Halo 3: ODST, and "all Game Add-on content for those titles." Halo Waypoint is being developed collaboratively by Microsoft's internal Halo studio, 343 Industries, and Certain Affinity, the Austin-based developer (with some former Bungie staffers) behind Age of Booty. Waypoint will be available November 5 for both Xbox Live Gold and Silver members; however, come November 26 those Silver members will have to pony up for Live if they want to keep their Waypoint access. That's a solid three weeks to determine if the exclusive Waypoint offerings – like the Nov. 7. preview of the "Halo Legends" anime anthology – are worth it. [read more]

Xbox 1080p Streaming Quality Is Incredible, Hands-On, With Video

Dan Rayburn writes: "This morning, I got the Xbox LIVE preview upgrade which gives me the ability to test out some of the new features coming soon to the Xbox console including Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm and 1080p streaming. Of course, the new 1080p streaming functionality is really the one I have been waiting to get hands on with and after watching a bunch of movies this morning, all I can say is that the quality it truly incredible." [read more]

September 2009 NPD Sales Data

This article covers NPD's sales data for console hardware and video game software for the month of September 2009. [read more]

PS3 250GB vs. Xbox 360 250GB price war

Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 250GB SKU this month undercut a new Xbox 360 250GB bundle by Microsoft Corp. in an aggressive price war for holiday sales. In a recession-based holiday season, both Sony and Microsoft are taking different tactics to ensure a grab for a value-conscious consumer in the year-end shopping season. [read more]