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HD-DVD vs DVD: Let's compare Xbox 360 style


Since we're all about supporting HD-DVD here at Fanboy Towers, we've stumbled upon an article that compares the prettiness of HD-DVD to that of DVD. Games Central put up a few comparison shots of the movies King Kong and Batman Begins, focusing on the image quality of HD-DVD and DVD. The actual pictures on their site aren't of the greatest quality, but you can still tell a difference in many shots. Just look at the image above that was taken from the movie King Kong. The HD-DVD side looks much more vivid and pretty, where as the DVD side is more "blah". As we said, the images from the website aren't the greatest, but be rest assured that HD-DVD will look very pretty up close in your living room.

[Via Digg]

Boost Gamerscore the easy way: pay for it


Life is hard. Every time you boot up your 360, all you see is the incredible Gamerscores that your friends have. It's embarrassing. Your pathetic, anemic little Gamerscore just doesn't compare. You feel like you just can't perform anymore. You don't have the time. You turn to your significant other and say, "I swear this has never happened to me before." Your significant other turns to you and says, "That's okay, honey. A lot of people have this problem. It's very common." Cold and ashamed, you warm up a glass of milk and go to bed early for 8 hours of fitful sleep.

Does this sound familiar? Well, the dastardly fine folks at Levelmy360.com are here to help. Through the goodness of their hearts (and for significant amounts of cash), they will boost your Gamerscore anywhere from 500 to 7000 points. Prices range from $40 to $400. That's right, all the pride and public notoriety of having a high Gamerscore is now free to be bought (and sold) at your discretion. Why on earth someone would actually pay just to boost Gamerscore we have no idea. It's not like World of Warcraft or anything -- the only thing Gamerscore is for is bragging rights.

We're not really sure what's worse, paying to use this service, or the countless hours of King Kong and College Hoops 2K6 being played by the people who run it.

[Thanks, Christian Santarelli]

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Top 10 awful achievements

Let's face it, some 360 achievements are pretty difficult to get. Others are pretty easy. However, there are some that are too easy or too hard. And of course there are those that are just stupid (here's looking at you Kong). GamersReports has taken our distaste for crappy achievements and combined them with our love of easily digestible lists of information. The product of this peanut butter/chocolate creation? A top ten list of the worst achievements on the Xbox 360, of course! Even better, Joystiq went to the trouble of recreating this list, which we will delicately lift for our own personal gain. It's the American way. Behold:

  • Mini-Games (Enter the Mini-Games mode); Madden 2007
  • Pyromaniac (Jack used fire to scare off enemies and get out of harm's way); King Kong
  • The Graduate (Earn the highest score on every drill in Training Mode); Rockstar Table Tennis
  • Tactical Instructor (Top marks in every Story Mode mission); Chromehounds
  • Play Some Online (Compete in each of the online game modes at least once); Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006
  • Food Bank; Feeding Frenzy
  • Game Master (Finish the entire game without continuing while using default settings); Smash TV
  • Complete 99 Stages (standard mode); Bomberman: Act Zero
  • Transmissionary (Answer all calls from Otis); Dead Rising
  • World Champion (Multiplayer: Climb to the top of the universal leaderboard); GRAW
Do you agree with this list? Any others you'd care to throw up there?

[Via Joystiq]

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