Colorware, the gadget-colorizers who most recently started painting Segways, had enough paint left over to coat your new Xbox 360 S as well. Buying an entirely new Xbox 360 in your own designed colors will be $500 (it’s normally $300), but if you mail in your already-purchased Xbox, it’s just $175. So if you want [...]

The “Red Ring Of Death”, the symbol of a catastrophic system failure that has become an icon of the 360′s lifetime, will soon be no more, as the new model of the console won’t display a ring of red lights. Deciding to take the opportunity for a clean break, Microsoft has not included any red [...]

The new Xbox 360 is the most technologically advanced yet thanks to the CPU and GPU sharing one chip on the 45nm scale. It’s quieter, cooler and less energy hungry—sucking half the power of the original. AnandTech put the new 360 through its technical paces. Their findings: • It’s “noticeably quieter,” spinning discs at 51 [...]

While Microsoft may have stated up, down and sidesaddle that the 250GB version of its Xbox 360 HDD would remain exclusive to special console bundles (e.g., Modern Warfare 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction), it would appear that the particular drive will arrive as a standalone accessory sometime soon. As spotted by eagle-eyed Joystiq reader Rodney [...]