Microsoft seems to be cursed with the word death as the Xbox 360 is currently falling victim to the red rings of death or three rings of death, just take your pick. Most popular death experience can be found in Microsoft Windows in the form of the blue screen of death, which fortunately (or unfortunately) is not literally your operating system dying and being unusable anymore.

The Xbox 360’s red rings of death, however, signify the end of your Xbox’s life cycle due to overheating. The failure rate of the Xbox is at a high of 30 percent, which has prompted Microsoft to issue an unprecedented policy of extending the warranty of the game console to three years for all. If repairs have been done, they will reimburse the amount. This is a global move, but according to Microsoft, it will take time to be implemented if you are residing outside the US. This is good damage control by Microsoft. If only they took extra time and effort to guarantee that their products wouldn’t flake out, then they wouldn’t need damage control now, would they?