Two years on from its first outing in the UK, Microsoft brings us the Elite, a new take on the Xbox 360 console aimed at satisfying the gaming fraternity, but has the new additions to an old friend been worthwhile? We get gaming to find out.

HDMI socket; 120GB hard drive; great graphics

Power pack is massive; still noisy

If we had been able to put XBMC on it so it had received full marks. Om man hade kunnat lägga in XBMC på den så hade den fått full poäng.

Lots of nice features, highly recommended!

Excellent graphics

The Powerful Xbox 360 Games Console The Xbox 360 is the ultimate games console, a sleek, stylish design houses powerful technologies and a host of interactive entertainment options. The Xbox 360 delivers next generation gaming. Highly advanced A.I.

The Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system places you at the center of the experience. Available this holiday season in Europe, Japan, and North America, Xbox 360 ignites a new era of digital entertainment that is always connected, always personalized, and always in high definition.

Microsoft has revealed its new console, the Xbox 360. As can be seen from the picture opposite, the console is smaller, curvy and more stylish than the console before it, with the addition of being able to stand vertically or horizontally.

Three years after the first shots were fired in Console War VI, Xbox 360 is winning the fight with the only weapons that really count: the deepest game library around and the most fulfilling online experience via Xbox Live.

Multiplayer matchmaking fills your social void with 12 million friends; Streams media from your PC

Premium Xbox Live account costs 50 clams a year; Clunky UI is terrible for navigating long lists of media

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has been voted the best games console by technology fans. It fought off competition from Sony's PlayStation Portable and Nintendo's DS Lite to scoop the prize. About 5000 readers of gadget magazine T3 nominated their favourite appliances for the reader awards.

Games and movies collide, again, this time in high-def.Microsoft's Xbox 360 HD DVD player is targeted specifically at the owners of the Xbox 360 gaming console-or those on the fence about purchasing one. It's an affordable way to bring HD DVD into your existing multimedia system.

Editors Note: The Xbox 360 is a much awaited product that people are keen to read about. To that end, we've split up the review for you, first providing an overview followed by a detailed analysis of the console for the gaming fanatics amongst us.

Sexy Design; Incredible power; Music streaming and integration; Great controller

Some unsupported file formats; No HD-DVD drive; no non-MSC support; average launch line up