The Xbox 36o slim was announced today at the Microsoft press conference on the first day of E3. The new version of the popular console sports a 250 gigabyte hard drive and a built in wifi adapter, as well as being "whisper quiet." The new console has now fully replaced the "outdated" one in all new sales of Xbox 360's. In addition, a special auxiliary port on the back of the console will let you connect (pun intended) Microsoft's Kinect motion add on, allowing simultaneous power and data transfer.

The slim goes on sale later this week at a price of $299.

Project V-13 Concept Art

Interplay, developer of games such as Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics, has released to the public its latest in a long string of concept art for their ongoing project, Project V-13, the unannounced Fallout MMO. The newest addition to the bunch is called "Frozen Shipyard" and depicts an icy scene of maritime carnage, reminiscent of the ending of Titanic.  As usual, Interplay gives no background information or explanation as to why any of this happened, and still leaves viewers of the art thinking "What happened here?" Concept artist Serg Souleiman included this along with the picture in the Interplay forums.

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