Best bets for kids: Teen games on the Xbox 360

Thursday, 4 p.m. Woodruff Library, Teen games on the Xbox 360. For teens only. Bring games rated teen or everyone to play on the Xbox 360 with other teens.

Origin debuts PC-Xbox 360 hybrid

Origin has debuted the ultimate PC-Xbox 360 hybrid rig for hardcore gamers. The system - which is appropriately dubbed "The Big O" - features Intel Xeon X5680 processors overclocked to 4.3GHz, (up to) 24GBs of Corsair GT 2000MHz memory and multiple GeForce GTX 480 GPUs. read more

Origin PC's Big O desktop: half gaming PC, half Xbox 360, all muscle

Oh, sure -- we've seen an Xbox 360 enclosure stuffed with x86 innards, but we can't say we've ever seen anything quite like this. Gaming upstart Origin PC has just shattered every preconceived notion about its potential with the Big O, an appropriately titled luxury machine that combines a liquid-cooled gaming PC with a liquid-cooled Xbox 360 Slim. In one box . A pair of base configurations are ...

Origin's Big O Stuffs an Xbox 360 Into a Gaming Desktop Hellbeast [Hybrid]

# hybrid The ingredients that went into Origin's Big O monster are decidedly prime: six-core Xeon 5680 processor, overclocking up to 4.3GHz, crazy graphics power. And the cherry on top is an integrated, liquid-cooled Xbox 360 slim in every rig. That's nasty. More »

ORIGIN “The Big O” pairs Xbox 360 with gaming PC

As names go, ORIGIN’s new gaming PC “ The Big O ” seems guaranteed to rile parents pestered by their kids for a premium gift this holiday season. Still, with pricing kicking off at $7,669, this hybrid PC and liquid-cooled Xbox 360 seems unlikely to end up underneath too many trees. The “basic” spec starts with an overclocked Intel Core i7-930 CPU running at 4.0GHz, dual NVIDIA GTX480 graphics ...

Police and Community Briefs for Sept. 8, 2010

Published: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 11:25 p.m. Five people were arrested early Monday in connection with a burglary at a liquor store. They included three juveniles, two of whom are brothers, and two adults.