Fixing The 3 Ring of Death With Towels?

The other day I watching some videos on youtube, and landed on a video where a boy was covering a towels over his Xbox 360 to get rid of the 3 ring of death. It seemed to work, but I thought to myself, "Wouldn't that just make your 360 overheat and really mess it up?" I thought the whole idea of having it stand up and vents inside the system was to prevent overheating.


Fortunately, I haven't had the 3 rings of death yet, so I don't know if that putting towels on your Xbox would really help. I've also heard that unplugging all the connections to your Xbox and then reconnecting them would work. Do these methods fix the problem permanently, or just fix it temporary? What's your thoughts on this.

Heroic Map Pack For Halo 3 is Released

Yesterday, the heroic map pack for Halo 3 was released on Xbox Live. In the pack there are 3 all new maps for players to explore in. Standoff is a good place for team slayer matches. In the map, it has entrenched bases and fields of boulders to run into and hide. Then there is Rat's Nest, which is ideal for big team matches and Foundry, the ultimate forge map. In Foundry, you will be able to edit every single object in the map to make a totally new map.

Right now the heroic map pack is available exclusively to Xbox Live and will cost 800 Microsoft points. By next spring, this pack will become free to download prior to the new multiplayer maps that will become available to download.