Why “Xbox” is being discussed
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IME SMT is approximately useless if your code is any good and you have one obvious source of load (the foreground game, a trading engine, etc). I just reduce thread count to at…
by hansvm · Oct 31, 2026
Xbox Wii60
by bombcar · Oct 31, 2026
Xbox 360 was pretty great. My favorite game to play online there was fight night round 3. It was an incredible experience. Managed to climb to the top 50 on the leaderboards!
by dimitrios1 · Oct 31, 2026
Soooo... can you make a Wii out of an Xbox 360? :D
by notpushkin · Oct 31, 2026
During a discussion of the recent shutdown by EA of Bioware, the famous studio behind game franchises like Knights of the Old Republic , Mass Effect , and Dragon Age (and, more…
by TMWNN · Oct 30, 2026
this reminds me of how the original xbox 360 dev kits were actually just powermac G5s. the mid-2000s were a wild time for cross-platform hardware.
by mmackh · Oct 30, 2026
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Xbox is a video gaming brand that consists of four main home video game console lines, as well as the streaming service Xbox Cloud Gaming, and online services such as the Xbox network and Xbox Game Pass. The brand is owned by the namesake division of Microsoft. Read more on Wikipedia