If you want a great new case mod for your 360, try this one. Suzuki has unveiled all it's 2007 model SUVs at the 2006 San Diego International Auto Show. Along with the lineup, they have also shown off a concept model. The SXBox. It's a part of the LIVE series of vehicles, designed for "life enthusiasts, adventurers and thrill-seekers." Life enthusiasts, hunh?

The vehicle comes with a 360 embedded into the dashboard and removable 360 controllers from the steering wheel and below the dash. It also has a close proximity digital projector to display the output from the 360 onto the retractable hood, activated with a single button, to play games and watch HD DVDs.

Personally, I would never want something like this. I don't need to be distracted while driving, at that, I don't think a vehicle is the best place to play video games or to watch a movie in. But that's just me. That, and that's why this is just a concept.

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So if you happen to have a PS3 laying around the house that you might consider throwing up on eBay, you’ll be sorely discouraged by the average bids already posted; $650, $700, $750 even. Michal Birecki from PS3center.net, however, saw the light. Stripping the PS3 of all exterior coverings, then sending the pieces to a body shop to be painted white, made the entire process feel like a bad episode of American Chopper. Be that as it may, once the process was completed, the finished product was a replica of the white prototype PS3 Sony has yet to release.

You can check out pictures of the entire process here, at PS3center.net. You can also check out the auction here, where the current bid as of this posting is $1525.01

Anyone up for making a red one? How about purple?

What? I'm not done yet? Well, I still have to give you my final gift - the couple meeting.

Before I do that, I hope you all have had (the Christmas celebrators) a great Christmas. I sure did.

Now, back to my gift.

December 25th is more than just a government sponsored day off, and more than the last chance for major retail chains to make their year end numbers.  Whatever your religious background, there is one thing that has become a tradition, a time for family.

Family is not just blood retaliations, they are people who you feel a closeness to that transcends friendship but isn’t quite in that “Hey what do you look like naked?’ phase.  Family is the laughter, the tears, the fights, it’s many things to many people.

To me, on top of my wife and son, it is everyone from this site.  Thank you for making me laugh, or making me roll my eyes, or making me want to punch your lights out, if that isn’t a sign of family, I don’t know what is.

To the fans, enjoy your day off, enjoy your new systems (if you scored one) but most of all, enjoy the people around you.  These are the people who will be there when everything else goes to hell.

Happy Holidays and Love to all!

Cooper Hawkes

After an insomniactic night, let's see what the gamer will be getting next. 12 batteries? 12 pillows? 12 PS3 controllers? 12 kisses?

Now that the gamer has a few new couches to lie around in and play on his many Wii's, PS3's, and watch TV, you would think he'd be all set. Well, yeah, except, he can't enjoy it because he's sleeping from exhaustion.

Maybe his girlfriend will solve that problem.

Welcome to another edition of Game Randy: Dubious News, presenting you with the finest in exclusive, breaking stories that might be true but probably aren’t.

Nintendo General Design Manager Shigeru Miyamoto announced last week his mid-term goal of beheading Sony and taking its women.  The Zelda creator announced Thursday that his enemies’ fates “have long been sealed” and that the punishment and torment that awaits them is both “swift and divine.”

“The very least I will take is their heads,” Miyamoto said of Sony in an interview with Famitsu over the weekend.  “From their bloodied and worthless countenances I will have claimed their dignity, and from their crippled barbarian dwellings, so too shall I claim their women.”  Miyamoto pantomimed swinging a sword, laughing lightheartedly, and made a sort of ‘scary-face.’

As reported, Miyamoto led his interviewer through a torch-lit walkway meticulously hewn from the local stratum, gesturing comically at many of the attractions.  In a sort of paternal expression, he put his arm around a classic Donkey Kong cabinet and patted it lightly.  Also on display was the gold-finished original Zelda cartridge, an enshrined beta copy of Super Mario 64, and a severed human foot in a mason jar marked by a dymo label reading “Ken Kutaragi.”

“I should hope the fool is grateful I only got away with this much.”  He held the blood-spattered container alongside his own head, and commented, “When next we cross paths, I will need a bigger jar!  Ha ha ha!”  He then set the jar back on its undignified dusty shelf, laughing heartily with both the dignity of a contemporary genius and the enthusiasm of an exuberant child.

Despite his candor, the designer was tight-lipped about his upcoming projects, only illustrating small aspects of development and creative processes.  “As you may recall, my interest in gardening in recent years served as the inspiration for Pikmin, in which the game conveys that attachment for the things you ‘grow’ and take pride in.  Super Mario Sunshine took classic principles of platforming adventure along with a child-like appreciation of water as both a tool and a plaything.  Now, with the Wii Remote, I have the opportunity to create all new ways of interacting with the subjects of my games.  I’m hoping to use the controller speaker, rumble, and motion tracking to full effect and faithfully reproduce the joy and immersion I found in killing a man just to watch him die.  You’ll find it is an amazing experience.”

On the subject of Nintendo versus its competitors, Miyamoto was outspoken and adamant about their place in the industry.  “It is not accurate to say we are competing.  While we seek to enrich and uplift a person with our arts, Sony’s soulless minions simply mine the medium for profit.  They chase out and drag back the same ideas and titles, like a dog fetching a stick.”  He chuckled and made an exaggerated pawing gesture and barking sound, adding, “How fitting, too, that they live like dogs.  Soon, they will die like them.”  Laughing, he made a prancing movement and a sad howling sound, then drove a jewel-encrusted dagger through his own hand for effect.

When asked his opinion on the recent turbulence in Sony structure, including the demotion of former President Ken Kutaragi, the father of Mario shared a last friendly guffaw; “Wherever Ken stepped down to, I hope it is ground-floor,” he said.  “Fucker’s not so good with stairs no more.”

Sony has announced that contrary to earlier reports, Gran Turismo HD will be available to all PS3 owners Christmas Eve, not just Japanese gamers.  When GTHD was announced as a free download earlier last month, the demo was only confirmed for the Japanese market.  Apparently, there was enough outcry over the lack of availability in the US to bring it to us (if it wasn't planned already).

Personally, I can't wait.  Gran Turismo has always been my favorite racer, and getting behind the wheel of a Ferrari is going to be a fucking blast.  Expect a full report once I've gotten my greasy fingers all over it.

via Game Daily