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Thursday, November 5, 2009
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 »
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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 »
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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 »
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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 »
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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 »
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Entertainment

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…
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Games

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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Monday, August 3, 2009
Games

Xbox Live NXE Beta Reveals Smaller Game Install Sizes

4:30AM Jack Loftus | Word from Kotaku is the Xbox Live NXE preview beta thing going on now features smaller game install sizes. Not one of the more exciting features, sure, but if you’re the type of gamer who enjoys seeing their games boot up a few second fast than usual it’s gravy. [Kotaku]
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Games

Microsoft Hates New Zealand Kids, Locks Them Out Of Xbox Live

11:22AM Nick Broughall | If you’ve ever complained about Xbox Live here in Australia, spare a thought for our trans-Tasman neighbours. Last week, David over at Kotaku looked into a rumour that after the mid-June update to Xbox Live, some New Zealand gamers were unable to download content. Turns out that it’s every NZ gamer with an under-18 account, and they can no longer even download a demo of a G-rated game while Microsoft tries to restrict access to mature content. More »
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