The so-called red ring of death, the infamous sign of a permanent hardware failure in an Xbox 360, is no more. Microsoft has elected not to include the warning feature in its new slimline version of ...

An Xbox 360 gamer is hit with the Red Ring of Death 17 years after the console originally released. The original Xbox, the Xbox One, and the Xbox Series X/S consoles have all managed to avoid ...

Microsoft made a sweater featuring the Red Ring of Death. The sweater has a power button that lights up in green or red. Only Microsoft employees can purchase the sweeter. Microsoft decided to ...

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For gamers in the Xbox 360 era, the “red ring of death” was nothing short of a nightmare. Its dreaded appearance signaled to the console owner that it was no longer operational. While video game ...

The “Xbox 360 glitch holiday sweater” includes a power button that illuminates green, and there’s even an interchangeable module that produces the Red Ring of Death. Microsoft loves ugly sweaters, but ...

The festive season is here, and as is tradition, people have dusted off their ugliest sweaters to help celebrate this jolly time of the year. Over at Microsoft, employees are getting into the swing of ...