Just when our 20GB hard drives are near full of game demos, HD movies and TV shows, music, and gamesaves, Microsoft goes out an makes a 512MB memory unit for the XBOX 360. It costs $50, comes with Geometry Wars pre-loaded, and will plug into one of the memory unit slots on the front of the XBOX 360.

What’s the selling point for this 512MB device? Who would buy it?

Is this geared for Core system users that think $100 for a 20GB hard drive is too much money?

Where are our mass storage devices for the XBOX360? How big is that free HD episode of SouthPark going to be? How many demos am I going to have to delete just to have room for this 30-minute episode?

And why can’t Microsoft allow us to use network storage devices with our XBOX 360. We can already do it for sharing music, movies, and pictures from our PCs to our XBOX 360s. Why can’t we do it with gamesaves and demos?

Gears of War has sold 4 million copies making it the most sold XBOX title behind HALO 1 and 2. GoW is the best selling game for the XBOX 360. I can’t help but think that this game would have sold even more copies had it shipped with objective-based gametypes and had a few glitches fixed.

Think there’s already too much Halo merchandise out there? Too bad. Corgi International today announced a partnership with Microsoft to add Halo products to their “Master Replicas” series of collectibles. No word on if they’ll call them Master Chief Master Replicas.

From Corgi’s site:

While details of the line are still being worked out, look for products running the gamut from gifts to collectibles, spanning the vast universes of Halo, Halo 2, and the hotly anticipated Halo 3. Look for further product announcements and releases throughout 2007.

Thanks for the heads-up to Kotaku.

If you’re looking for info on Crackdown, the MS-Xbox World forums has it. You can view maps of every race location, stunt location, and hidden orb location. Furthermore, you can find the map of hidden orbs with screenshots of every orb here. FoulBreed and I have been tagteaming the hidden orbs and it’s a beast with only a 2D map. The screenshots should help tremendously with the more difficult orbs.

I have yet to find a map of every agility orb posted on the net, but there is a cumbersome 2D map in the Official Prima Strategy Guide.

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How cool is this? Cryptoflix releases two Pod TV episodes in two weeks! This time he tells us how to get a skull that does something pretty cool: makes enemies’ heads explode like a plasma grenade when you get a headshot!