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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Hisense’s ultra-short throw laser projector is now Xbox certified.

The company claims its triple laser PX3-PRO is the world’s first UST projector to be “Designed for Xbox.” What that means isn’t entirely clear given the Xbox can’t take advantage of the projector’s 240Hz maximum refresh rate.

More useful may be the $3,499.99 PX3-PRO’s ability to automatically optimize its settings for gaming when it detects a console powering up.

A gamer playing Halo projected on a large screen using the Hisense PX3-PRO UST laser projector.
The Hisense PX3-PRO has a maximum refresh rate of 240Hz, but the Xbox doesn’t support it.
Image: Hisense
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The Xbox 360 Store shuts down today.

Starting today, you’ll no longer be able to purchase games, DLC, and other items from the Xbox 360 Store or the Xbox 360 Marketplace — both of which launched almost 19 years ago.

The shutdown doesn’t affect online multiplayer on the Xbox 360, and you’ll still be able to purchase backward-compatible games and DLC from newer Xbox consoles.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Microsoft insists Game Pass isn’t ‘degraded,’ as the FTC claims.

The FTC called Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass price hike “exactly the sort of consumer harm” it had predicted ahead of the company’s Activision-Blizzard buy.

Microsoft’s response (PDF) claims that with included multiplayer and the upcoming day-and-date release of Call of Duty, the offering isn’t degraded at all.

It is wrong to call this a “degraded” version of the discontinued Game Pass for Console offering. That discontinued product did not offer multiplayer functionality, which had to be purchased separately for an additional $9.99/month. While Game Pass Ultimate’s price will increase, the service will offer more value through many new games available “day-and-date.” Among them is the upcoming release of  Call of Duty, which has never before been available on a subscription day-and-date.
Screenshot: Re: Federal Trade Commission v. Microsoft Corp. No. 23-15992 (PDF)
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
There are currently issues linking Xbox accounts with GeForce Now.

It’s a “global outage,” according to an Nvidia status message. “We are working on a fix to bring back the service as soon as possible.”

Nvidia’s other GeForce Now services appear to be operational, so perhaps this issue is tied to everything else going on.

Ash Parrish
Ash Parrish
The Merc with a Mouth gets a controller with a butt.

Just in time for Deadpool and Wolverine, Xbox is giving away a new controller that puts the “ass” in assassin...and I hate it.

Now, I don’t mind gimmicky controllers. Those furry Sonic controllers didn’t bother me because they were still regular controllers, sweaty hands notwithstanding. But this monstrosity doesn’t even look ergonomically functional. All that ass and no way to properly grip it.

Image of the new Deadpool and Wolverine Xbox controller.
Image: Xbox