What if you could unlock the full potential of your Xbox 360 without cracking it open or risking permanent damage? For years, console modding was a hobby reserved for the tech-savvy and fearless, ...

Tired of the Xbox 360’s “look-how-hard-I’m-trying-to-look-hip” aesthetics? Mod it, young man. That’s what Ben Heckendorn did, transforming the Xbox 360 into a much smaller, laptop-like fun adapter.

Microsoft doesn't appear to be interested in making a portable game console, although it is coming out with the Surface, which will be capable of playing games. So when Microsoft won't do it, one ...

The Xbox gaming console is a powerful computer with a big hard drive. You can modify your Xbox to unlock a host of capabilities not enabled out of the box - like ...

Fancy keeping fit while you play your Xbox 360? I always love those fitness machines that have screens and can race against something rather than just sitting and clocking up the miles. Well, rather ...

Emulation for Xbox 360 games is good, but only a few titles are playable. The use of static recompilation, not emulation, may soon allow Xbox 360 games to run natively. Tools like XenonRecomp and ...

The hacks just keep on coming for Microsoft's Xbox. A second "mod chip," an add-on chip for the console that lets consumers play pirated discs and other applications on their consoles, is now ...

HG, or Head in the Game Controllers, had a brilliant idea to mod Xbox 360 controllers by duplicating some front face buttons onto the back. Why would you need this? So you won’t have to move your ...

One of the companies making Xbox "mod chips"--add-on components that modify the game machine so it can run illegally copied discs and homemade software--has gone out of business, possibly because of ...

Mods, or the ability to modify your PC game’s code, has been one of the inherent appeals of the PC platform. Microsoft said Thursday that it’s making it far simpler to use a mod for a supported PC ...