The Darkness broke my Xbox.

Now I'm sure a lot of you will think I'm nuts but I am convinced that the game The Darkness broke my 360. Here's my reasoning: My 360 has never given me any problems...ever. That was untill I started playing The Darkness. While playing this game my 360 would start crashing and I'd have to turn it off and back on again. I could play any other game without any problems.. but as soon as I'd play The Darkness it would crash. I then got this part in the game where you had to get a cannon or something to help you kill the darkness... or something like that. At that point in the game it crashed every time. I would reboot, load the game and it would crash straight away again.... every time. I could then load up another game and the console would be fine.. no crashes in any other game at all. It was after one such crash during The Darkness that I turned the console off and on again that it started flashing the 3 red lights. I turned it off and on again and it started booting but crashed on the Xbox 360 logo screen. I left it off for a day and when I turned it on the next day it booted to the dashboard. Cool! I popped in Forza 2 but as soon as the game started it crashed. I tried some Bomberman... but it crashed again. Now it's at the stage where it just comes up with the 3 red lights and thats it.

Is it a strange coincidence that it only ever crashed in The Darkness? No, not since there are plenty of reports all over the forums of it crashing other 360's. Is it a coincidence that my 360 died after one of these The Darkness crashes? I don't think so.. I am convinced all those The Darkness induced crashes somehow contributed towards my 360's death. Call me crazy but this is not the first time a game has been blamed for the death of 360's. When Forza 2 came out it too was being blamed for causing the dreaded 3 red lights on a number of 360's. It would be interesting if more research could be done into whether it would be possible for a game to break a 360. Untill proven otherwise I am convinced that The Darkness broke my Xbox.

Peter Moore Resigns From Microsoft

It came as a bit of a shock when Peter Moore (generally seen as the main man of the Xbox devision) announced his resignation from Microsoft yesterday. As recent as last week's E3 he was still on stage presenting Microsoft's press briefing. He is leaving Microsoft and joining EA to head up EA Sports... the reason being that he wanted to move his family back to the Bay area. You can read the official press release here and can also look at his bio on the Microsoft site here.