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Microsoft has finally decided to alter its form factor for the Xbox 360.

Microsoft may have shut down the original Xbox Live, but that hasn’t stopped some gamers from keeping their connections alive.

Microsoft has released their fiscal data for the year and in this report they revealed that the Xbox 360 has sold over 40 million units worldwide since the consoles launch in 2005. In 2005 they sold a reported 5 million units and things have taken-off since then.

Eurogamer: Microsoft should by now have officially discontinued Xbox Live support for original Xbox consoles and games.

Microsoft has released its rumored Xbox 360 USB storage update last night, and now you’re free from the tyranny of the Microsoft overpriced proprietary hard drive tyranny, sixteen gigabytes at a time.

Setting up a USB device is simple – you plug it into your 360, go into System Settings, then Memory, go down to your USB device, and you can either format it as a new device, or set aside a certain part of the USB drive as 360 storage, up to 16GB, along with 512MB as system space.

It appears that you must use flash memory with the update – I tested out a FAT32-formatted USB hard drive, and it said that it did not meet the specifications necessary to use it as Xbox 360 storage. Using a 4GB A-Data microSDHC card in an SD adapter in an SDHC card reader worked fine (when tested using a different card reader, it would not recognize the previously formatted space), but a generic microSDHC reader that fits in half of a USB port did not work. Everything that I loaded onto the USB storage ran perfectly fine without any issues, and you can easily remove the Xbox 360 specific memory from the memory card from the same Memory menu you installed it on.

This update will come as a great convenience to 20GB hard drive owners like myself who have run out of space on their hard drives. Now, I can download more Guitar Hero 5 songs without worrying about being unable to download anything ever again!

Haha, just kidding, I’m totally gonna download Rock Band songs.

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

Microsoft has officially responded to the NPD February video games sales results, and as expected the company spoke proud about its venerable console.

Microsoft has told CVG that it considers digital media – and not the Blu-Ray disc – the ‘future of home entertainment’.

MCVUK: Marketing drive gearing up to target non-gamers and potential new Xbox audience

Microsoft will directly challenge Nintendo’s mass-market media efforts when it launches Natal later this year.

MCV understands that format-holder Microsoft is already planning early promotional efforts for the camera device to include celebrity endorsements and coverage in non-games media.

Microsoft this week invited an ‘elite selection of media’ and non-games firms to attend a VIP showcase. The likes of Vogue and Glamour have been targeted in a bid to build awareness for its upcoming motion-tracking peripheral.

Kotaku writes: Microsoft’s robust X10 video game showcase this week in San Francisco was just the tip of the iceberg for the Xbox 360’s 2010 offerings, Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg told Kotaku.

"To be this early in the year and able to have an E3-quality line-up with triple-A blockbuster titles, that really speaks to how big a year this will be for us," said Greenberg, director of Product Management for Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE. "This is just a glimpse of the quality of products we’re going to bring throughout the full year."

"It’s going to be a big year… it’s going to be the biggest year in the history of Xbox."

Microsoft reports that 23 million users are now registered to Xbox Live.