Xbox 360
By Dylan Miles, Sat Dec 10th

The Xbox 360 is Microsoft's newest gaming console, which willhit the stores by Christmas, making it the most coveted gift onthe market this year. The Xbox 360 is the sleekest console inits category and signals the arrival of the next generation ofvideo game machines. It is Microsoft's aim to captivate gamersworldwide with its Xbox 360. The biggest change from previousdesigns is that it is no longer black. Instead, the look issofter, cleaner, and very white. The Xbox 360 has a CPU withthree IBM PowerPC chips, an ATI 500 MHz graphics processor, 512Mb of memory, a removable hard drive, three USB ports, twomemory card slots, an infrared receiver, and more. Thecontrollers are wireless and matching in color.

There are many Xbox 360 games,

including Call of Duty 2, Quake4, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06, TheDarkness, Perfect Dark Zero, Gears of War, Saint's Row, andmore. Backwards compatibility, that is, compatibility with oldergames is not a goal for this Xbox, so look forward to new games.

The console can connect to the online gaming service, Xbox Live,which allows gamers to connect with other users at differentlevels, such as casual, pro, family, and underground. Moreover,the console also turns into a mini-entertainment system, whichcan be plugged in to portable devices or computers to play musicand movies, display photo slideshows. A keyboard can also beplugged in, though for text input only, not for gaming.

Microsoft's Xbox has finally evolved into a strong competitivealternative to all-time gaming legends like Sony and Nintendo.

About the author:Dylan Miles, journalist, and publisher, is the owner andco-editor of http://www.electronicgifts.info on which you willfind more a detailed version of this article.