you should be able to fix dead rising
useually now in some big major gaming retail stores they have disk scrather repair things
thats if teh game is past the warrenty thre quite helpful my halo 3 was in my 360 and it got a perfect circle in the middle and stopped working.
just took it to the scratch people and they fix it.
if you have a warrenty use that
as for the xbox it can be refundable

bad thing about microsoft they expect you to empty your wallets for a repair on everything that costs a fortune but just take it back and see what they say.

I had my 360 stop reading discs. Sent it in, paying the $$ for a repair (past warranty) and they reinstated the warranty and gave me a free month of X-Box Live. Maybe the system is faulty, but at least Microsoft isn't taking the Sony "your system broke, tough luck" approach. On-topic, sucks that that happened to you.

I've had my 360 since about 6 months after it was launched (waited for the hype to die down) and it has been fine ever since. The trick is to NOT PLAY IT. I've spent probably only 3 hours at a time on it since I got it (compared to my usual 6-12 hours I spend on my PC) and it's still working fine... for now. See I worked at Gamestop for a little bit and I heard what all you have to pay for sending it back to Microsoft and learned a Gamestop warranty was actually the best route you could take, however your 360 has to be working. We took back a guys broken 360 that he paid $600 dollars for the premium system that came with a Windows Media Center remote free at the time, for a little over $100. We later refurbished it, and then Gamestop sold it back as the "Used Core System" for $400-$500 dollars. Also the guy who turned it in, couldn't wait for it to be fixed and pay the 60$ service charge Gamestop charged and bought a new core system, for $400 after selling off his HDD. Thats his story though.

My Story is one of which statistics would show falls into the 70% of Xboxs that do not need replacing, but I expect it will happen someday. And when it does, I will put it up in my closet and maybe do up a plaque to set it on that says "Microsoft's Failure" and 10 years later I'll turn it on to show my friends the sad and memorable sight of The Red Ring of Death.

Get used to it. My brother has been through three or four and a friend of mine had to have three of them fail on him before he got one which worked for a whole month...

Landslide:
Yep. As (supposedly) designed. Taking it (and Dead Rising) back to Walmart shortly.

Never use it sideways. I killed bioshock doing that.