Video game system deal for your 'staycation'
Although old news in the blogosphere, Microsoft made it official today in announcing it start selling the Xbox 360 featuring a 20-gigabyte hard drive for $299 (regular $350). on Sunday.
The timing? An updated Xbox 360 is set to arrive in stores by early August. The $350 replacement will sport a 60GB hard drive - more space for storing the games, TV shows and movies Microsoft sells on its Xbox Live Marketplace Web site.
Speaking of movies, it was announced today that the 360 will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet under a deal with Netflix.

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