Microsoft had a swanky little event in a penthouse overlooking the Thames this morning and one of the many bits and bobs on show (check back soon for the games) was the Xbox 360's HD DVD drive. This ...

Microsoft will attempt to compete with the PlayStation 3 by releasing the XBOX 360 Ultimate with an onboard HD DVD drive, according to a gadget magazine. Ty Pendlebury Editor TV and home video editor ...

My Oct. 2006 360 hasn't had any problems. Just last night I watched DVDs on it, no problems. This afternoon I put a disc in to play, and it grinds and crunches loudly. The game loads and I can play ...

The whiz kids over at Xbox-Scene have posted a handy-dandy spotter's guide which lets you determine--at a glance!--if you have one of the new, ultra-quiet BenQ DVD drives in your 360. If not, sucks to ...

Microsoft will stop making external HD DVD drives for its Xbox 360 game console, but won’t say whether it will offer a Blu-ray Disc drive instead. The company will continue to provide warranty and ...

This is only a preliminary design, but these pics are what the Xbox 360 team are looking at for integrating the HD DVD with your internal DVD drive in the UI. Looks pretty straightforward. Similar to ...

Is there anything stopping me (short of voiding the warranty) from replacing the XBox 360's built-in DVD unit with the HD-DVD unit sold separately from the system? Has anybody tried this yet? I'd much ...

This week, the titans are clashing. Sony and Microsoft, both notorious for pulling out all the stops, are going head to head with their latest game machines. Although not a gamer, I’m drawn to the PS3 ...

Gamers who have their Xbox 360's firmware flashed may have recently noticed an inability to play backups, or even make backups of newer games that have come out: Gears of War 3 and Dead Island, to ...

Toshiba has rubbished reports that it is currently working with Microsoft on an Xbox 360 with a built-in HD DVD drive. Toshiba has rubbished reports that it is currently working with Microsoft on an ...

Source: Japanese media outlets, including Mainichi Interactive and Zakzak. The official story: See below. What we heard: Less than a week after the launch of the Xbox 360 in Japan, various news sites ...