Tubular 80's Retro gear for your Avatars: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/av...14009&sb=1&p=1

I like the checked shoes. Pass on the rest. No parachute pants, wtf?

Glad there's no Swatch watch as it would've broken the streak of not paying for Avatar clothing in our household.

I want at least a couple of those.

Where are the Jams?

Does anyone know if the three year warranty for RROD starts over once you get your system repaired or do they still count from the initial purchase date? I got mine fixed about two years ago and now its freezing but the website says not under warranty.

Once its repaired your given a 1 year warranty for it, so if the website says it's out of warranty you might want to double check via calling MS support and seeing if it is.

Mine just red ringed this week and was well over a year past the warranty. It even showed as 'out of warranty' online. I called MS and they said they would fix it no charge. Didnt even put up a fight.

Thanks. Its not RROD it just freezes and then makes a beep sound. It does say I'm out of warranty so I guess I'm just SOL. If it was still under warranty, I would induce the RROD.

Looks like I'll be buying the PS3 version of games for a while.

Nope. It's a 90-day warranty from the day it's shipped back from repair (not even the day you get it back, which I thought was extra-shitty, since my repaired console got shipped to the wrong address and took over a week to come back to me).

That is not what I've experienced and I thought it is different even though the documentation is not always clear on the site. This is what it says right now when I click repair console
✝ Standard warranty expired: A three-year warranty applies to Xbox 360 issues that are associated with three red lights. Please click Request a Repair to proceed.

And when I start a ticket it still shows as $0.00 for the repair when I pick 3RR's and I am past 3 years on my original purchase also.

From SD: PlayOn is on sale for $20 with coupon PAX1999.

Still no Mac support = Fail.

I can get a 360 Arcade from Dell now for about $170. Would it be a good choice just to get this one and take my old HD out and use it here, or best just to wait and get a new Elite?

If you can wait, it's always smartest to wait until Black Friday as there's always a good deal or two on console bundles then.

I just got a new elite with 120gb hard drive for $250 from Dell. Theres a 15% off coupon floating around out there (and free 2 day shipping).

Forza 3 has gone gold. Demo coming on the 24th.

Do racing games still sell? It seems like there are a million of them coming out and (at least here and in the gaming magazines I read), they're all met with an indifferent shrug. Oversaturated market, last-gen gameplay. I have so many that I've only played once or twice (including Forza 2 and PGR 4) and some nice ones (GRID, Midnight Club LA) that are still in shrink wrap. This entire generation, I can think of only one truly great racing game : Burnout Paradise.

Burnout Revenge was a better Burnout game (broken record).
Test Drive: Unlimited was a great game
Pure is pretty awesome
Motorstorm is solid
Excite Truck/Bots are a blast
Mario Kart is, well, Mario Kart

But yeah, it's pretty much oversaturation. For every great one there are four shitty ones. I am intrigued by Blur and totally hype for Split/Second.

I agree, but it was a really a last-gen title. I forget about TD:U -- it was very nice, and since it featured my home island, I was thrilled to be able to drive around and see so many places I actually knew (including driving down the street I actually grew up on). But overall, I'm burned out on the genre (pardon the pun).

Burnout Revenge and Mario Kart Wii are near flawless.

Motorstorm and Pure had moments.

Haven't bought a racer since Mario..looking forward to deciding between Dirt 2 and NFS Shift...both of which are getting amazing reviews.

Agree! I still love this game and pop it in every now and then.

Can't wait for that one. I have no idea how many hours I dumped in Forza 2, but every minute was worth it.

I used to love racing games, but Burnout (pre-Paradise) really has ruined me for other series. If a racer isn't that, I'm usually not interested.

I will give the likes of Pure some props though. That demo was really fun. Since SSX isn't SSX anymore, Pure seems to be the next best thing. I was waiting for that to come down in price, and now that I see I can get a used copy for $14...

My biggest problem with Pure is that the vehicles aren't unlocked for online immediately...you have to unlock them via single player. What made Burnout Revenge so great (among other things) is that everything was a level playing field car-wise the moment you got online. The best driver won...not the guy who played the most single player and unlocked everything. In Revenge, single player and online were completely separate..the way it should be.

This is what people seem to be getting on CAG: