xbox live
Deals
11:30AM Nick Broughall | David over at Kotaku has discovered a great deal on Xbox Live subscriptions: You can get a 12-month subscription to the service for just $45.95, a saving of $34, or the equivalent of about five months worth of online gaming. If your current subscription’s almost up or you’re thinking of delving into the service for the first time, you probably won’t get a better deal than this.
[Gamecard via Ecogamer via Kotaku]
Dealzmodo: Get Five Months Of Xbox Live Free
11:30AM Nick Broughall | David over at Kotaku has discovered a great deal on Xbox Live subscriptions: You can get a 12-month subscription to the service for just $45.95, a saving of $34, or the equivalent of about five months worth of online gaming. If your current subscription’s almost up or you’re thinking of delving into the service for the first time, you probably won’t get a better deal than this.
[Gamecard via Ecogamer via Kotaku] 
Games
If You Buy A Used Xbox 360 That’s Been Banned, You’re Screwed
7:50AM Matt Buchanan | Major Nelson, updating us on a periodic Xbox Live purge — banhammering cheaters, pirates and other folks of ill-repute, though not 12-year-olds — reminds us of Microsoft’s official policy that if you buy a used Xbox 360 that’s been banned, you’re screwed. More »
Games
Hey Microsoft: We Need Aliases For Xbox Live Gamertags
3:44AM Adam Frucci | I love Xbox Live, I really do. But man, how am I supposed to keep track of what usernames my friends are using? We need aliases, and we’ve needed them for a while. More »
Games
Microsoft Soft-Launching Xbox Live Rewards Program
1:48AM Mark Wilson | Kotaku reports that a number of their readers have received invites to an “exclusive pilot rewards program” for Xbox Live. More »
Entertainment
2:33AM Matt Buchanan | Twitter and Facebook, on your Xbox. It’s weird, like people who put ketchup on their eggs. More »
Facebook, Twitter, Zune Video And Last.Fm On Xbox Live Hands On: Hrm, That’s Interesting
2:33AM Matt Buchanan | Twitter and Facebook, on your Xbox. It’s weird, like people who put ketchup on their eggs. More »
Games
Next Xbox Live Update Breaks ‘Unauthorised’ Memory Cards
12:48AM Mark Wilson | A new Xbox update coming to some of as as soon as this week will block the use of “unauthorised” memory cards. That means you should copy any important data to your hard drive before the update hits. It also means that we’re likely to see more “authorised” third party memory units on the way. [Major Nelson via Gamers Reports via Kotaku] More »
Games
Project Natal Is Gonna Be Priced Like A Console
4:02AM Matt Buchanan | How much is Project Natal going to cost? Microsoft’s still working it out, but Robbie Bach says at the very green roundtable I’m sitting at that it’ll follow a price curve “like anything else”, meaning, in English, it’ll start at a more expensive point and get cheaper as it goes on. More »
Entertainment
3:30PM Nick Broughall | Yesterday the guys from Xbox showed us a demo of the new Zune Video marketplace for Xbox Live. Here’s the presentation from the event. You can’t really tell the scaling of the video quality as The Dark Knight starts on YouTube, but trust me, it’s pretty good to watch in the flesh…
Want To See What The Zune Marketplace Will Look Like On Xbox Live?
3:30PM Nick Broughall | Yesterday the guys from Xbox showed us a demo of the new Zune Video marketplace for Xbox Live. Here’s the presentation from the event. You can’t really tell the scaling of the video quality as The Dark Knight starts on YouTube, but trust me, it’s pretty good to watch in the flesh…
Games
6:59AM Matt Buchanan | Two words: Halo 2. Halo 2 is why Microsoft hasn’t killed the old Xbox Live, according to G4. And the old Xbox Live architecture can’t support more than 100 friends—no amount of jury-rigging will make it happen. More »
Why You Can’t Have More Than 100 Xbox Live Friends
6:59AM Matt Buchanan | Two words: Halo 2. Halo 2 is why Microsoft hasn’t killed the old Xbox Live, according to G4. And the old Xbox Live architecture can’t support more than 100 friends—no amount of jury-rigging will make it happen. More »
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