XBox 360 Rally

Before we begin t3h w31rd this week, I want to speak personally for a bit…

Yesterday (Saturday), I was forced to put down my cat, Spaz. He was less than a year old when he started getting ill. Upon taking him to the veterinarian, we learned that he had feline leukemia, and would have to be put down in order to keep it from spreading to the other cats. I loved Spaz dearly, as I do with all my pets, and I only hope he has found peace, and that he is happy wherever he may be.

And now, on to t3h w31rd…

Xbox 360 Used in PS3 Kiosk
This is the only thing I could find this week that really made me go “Whoa… that’s freakin’ crazy!” But again, I’ve had a bad week, so maybe my heart just wasn’t in it. But even this had me going “Daaaaamn.” So, let me explain the story.

In Sydney, there is a PS3 kiosk. It looks like a PS3, the games look like a PS3. But notice something? Those cords in the back aren’t PS3 cords, are they? No, they’re not. Upon further investigation, it turned out that the display console was but a shoddily covered Xbox 360. When asked by Kotaku WHY they would deceive their customers like that, the store’s manager said:

Yeah, we had that hooked up yesterday. It was running a DVD showing what the PS3 can do, explaining the controls and stuff, as well as some footage of some PS3 games. But we had to take it down this morning.

How weak is that?

Ok, I’m not going to leave you guys with one thing, so we’re going to take a trip into t3h w31rd’s vault, and go allllll the way back to the launch of the Xbox 360…

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Two Women Offer Sex for Xbox 360
Ok, there was an advertisment over at Craig’s List the other day (playing into the “Going Back in Time” feel, so shut up) about these two college girls from Boston who were offering sex in exchange for a Xbox 360? To quote the ad:

Me and my roommate are totally hard core gamers, but our desperate (sic) attempts to get an Xbox 360 have gotten us nothing so far.

The ad was taken down a few days later, which either means that someone stepped in, or someone agreed to the deal. Almost makes me wish I lived in Boston. Reading stuff like this only makes me feel better about Microsoft’s chances this time around, especially after getting the head start on Sony. But watch out, that PS3 is going to be big, and you can never count out Nintendo with their Revolution.

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R.I.P. Spaz

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