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Microsoft's New Xbox Experience will come with the surprise addition of HD video streaming over Netflix, an early Engadget hands-on shows. While every Netflix-capable device to date has been limited to standard-definition versions of videos,

Bizarre meets funny in Jonathan King’s “Black Sheep” (2006), an ambitious but ultimately very disappointing film with a perverse sense of humor. A weak script and plenty of red paint splashing quickly transform this one into a bore-fiesta with an impressive string of dull twists. Distributed in the UK by Icon Home Entertainment.

Videogame companies continue to try to put a positive spin on the impact of the current recession on consumers' holiday spending plans. The latest effort comes from Microsoft, who commissioned the "Xbox 360 Holiday Entertainment Survey 2008" conducted by IPSOS.

To save rhythm game fans the headache of figuring out which instruments work with the Rock Band and Guitar Hero series', the Guitar Hero World Tour community management team has launched an official compatibility chart.

Disney/Pixar’s animated film “Wall•E” will be released this coming Tuesday on DVD and Blu-ray. On DVD, you’ll be able to choose between single-disc and three-disc versions. On Blu-ray, there will be 2-disc and 3-disc versions. A

Blu-ray became the standard for high-definition content when it defeated the HD DVD format in February. But Julie Johnston is stilHigh-def options vie with Blu-rayl on the fence about buying a Blu-ray high-definition DVD player. "Lately, there are so many ways to get" high-definition content that "it's not necessarily about just buying a DVD player anymore," says the graphic designer in Denver.

Netflix is making the jump to high definition with the soft launch of streaming HD titles on the Xbox 360. On Nov. 19, Microsoft will roll out the Xbox Experience, an update to the Xbox 360’s control panel that also offers the ability to stream 300 titles in high definition through Netflix.

Fallout 3 is a PC game. Sure, it's an Xbox 360 game, too. And it's a PlayStation 3 game, I guess. It's also an RPG, technically.
But when you get at the heart of it, Fallout 3 feels like a game designed for the PC. It has the soul of a big-boxed, full-manual, five-CD game from 1998. It has all the complexity and addictiveness of a System Shock, or a Deus Ex--or, yes, a Fallout.

It appears that DirecTV has launched "Crime and Investigation Network" in HD on channel 275. In order to see the new channel customers must refresh their programming from the DirecTV website and subscribe to the HD Extra package.

The next chapter in George Lucas' ever-expanding franchise will be "Star Wars: The Old Republic," a massively multiplayer online game set thousands of years before Darth Vader was born. The game is being developed by BioWare, the Electronic Arts-owned studio responsible for the first "Knights of the Old Republic" role-playing game in 2003.