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E3 is almost here, and the rumors are really starting to take shape these days. Here is a roundup of Xbox360 rumors that are circulating the web at the moment.

-Xbox 360 Premium Pack price is going to drop $100 in October.

-Xbox 360 Core Pack price is going to drop $80 in October

-Gears of War is going to be released the last week of October with an huge marketing campaign at global scale.

-HD-DVD for the next month of September. Add-on that you can connect to the USB 2.0 port. It is going to be priced for $100

-New HardDisk Drive with 100GB of storage, price and date not specified.
-Webcam “My Eye on you”, for the month of September with a price of $50 without game and $75 with a game.
-Xbox Backward compatibility list is going to be updated in June with 50 new titles
-The capacity of the Xbox Live Servers is going to be 5 times more than the actual servers

-Halo 3 is going to be in the market the next month of March, in E3 we are going to see the first videos.

-Possibility of an “urban game” that could be GTA. Microsoft is working on it and this isn´t a joke.

-A possible price drop in Xbox Live Gold or it is going to be free because they are going to get money with promotional advices.

-From the next month of October we are going to change some records in some games for “MSpoints”.

-Paramount Pictures and Microsoft has anounced an agreement where Paramount is going to provide HD content to Xbox Live.

-NBC has signed with Microsoft for the possibility of see the online tournaments like an sports live retransmission.

-Aliance between Epic and Microsoft for exclusive content in Xbox Live.

-Creation of a Dashboard for kids.

-A new service in june: Download and play.

-Rare is working in Kameo 2 since before the release of Kameo. Is going to come before than expected.

-MS is working for an upgraded friend list (until 200 contacts)

-Virtual Console with Sega games before the next month of October

-An spectacular upgrade in the number of Xbox Live Arcade games in the next months.

-New look for Dashboard.

Also, I4U News reports that Xbox 360 will have some sort of HDMI interface. Without HDMI, it is possible to view pirated movies.