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Xbox Live activity for the week of February 8th

Xbox Live activity for the week of February 8th

Xbox Live’s Major Nelson released his weekly activity report for Xbox Live yesterday. I was a little surprised by some of the new entries making their way towards the top of the list. Two of the five games played on Xbox Live last week were actually just demos. Both the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and [Continue]

Snag Battlefield 1943 for only 800 Microsoft Points

Snag Battlefield 1943 for only 800 Microsoft Points

Microsoft’s Deal of the Week this week let’s you get your hands on Battlefield 1943 for 50% off. From now until February 22nd you’ll only have to fork over 800 Microsoft Points (around $10). It’s money well spent if you want to take a breather from Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Bioshock 2 [Continue]

Xbox Live Marketplace upcoming releases

Xbox Live Marketplace upcoming releases

Major Nelson has posted the upcoming release schedule for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Marketplace. Most notable in the 50% price slash that ‘Splosion Man will be getting. The acclaimed platformer is well worth the 800 Microsoft Points, but it’s a steal at 400 Microsoft Points (or $5.00). Other notable additions are DLCs for [Continue]

Xbox Live Marketplace January release dates

Xbox Live Marketplace January release dates

It looks like even Major Nelson himself had a New Year’s resolution. Starting this week he will be releasing a bi-monthly (hopefully) schedule of upcoming DLC and other Xbox Live Marketplace release dates, making it easier for us to budget and circle the upcoming dates on our calendars. I’ve already got my eye on that [Continue]

Here are the top Xbox Live games of 2009

Here are the top Xbox Live games of 2009

Major Nelson has released Xbox Live’s top played and downloaded games of 2009. And not surprisingly it looks like Halo 3 was king of the hill. There are other tid bits of interesting info to gather from the list though. Modern Warfare 2, which had only been out for less than two months before the [Continue]

Halo Wars Leaderboard data goes the way of the dinosaur

Halo Wars Leaderboard data goes the way of the dinosaur

News first broke out a couple of days ago that Halo Wars leaderboard data and rankings had mysteriously dissapeared from Xbox Live. I didn’t want to report it then just in case it was only temporary to prevent unneccessary freaking out. Well, now it’s time to start freaking. In a post on his personal blog [Continue]

Major Nelson pipes up about Xbox Live ads

Major Nelson pipes up about Xbox Live ads

Yesterday on his personal blog Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb spoke up about Microsoft’s plans to roll out new advertising on it’s Xbox Live Dashboard using Silverlight. An announcement that has come under some fire from it’s subscribers. “I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion today about how we’re bringing [Continue]

Microsoft resets Gamerscores on you cheatin’ fools

Microsoft resets Gamerscores on you cheatin’ fools

In keeping with his tradition of trying to keep cheating and glitching in check, Stephen Toulouse, Xbox Live’s main watchdog has just reset thousands of Gamerscores back to zilch. Zilch as in zero, as in too bad so sad. In an interview with Xbox Live’s Major Nelson he revealed the logic behind the Gamerscore wipeouts. [Continue]

New Game of the Year Elite bundle coming

New Game of the Year Elite bundle coming

Major Nelson announced today on his blog that Microsoft is going to release a limited edition console bundle in May. What will the bundle include you ask? Well you silly geese for $399 you can get your hands on a Xbox 360 Elite, and copies of Halo 3 and Fable II. That’s right they are [Continue]

Microsft wants to send you to E3…and pawn off a new KIA on you

Microsft wants to send you to E3…and pawn off a new KIA on you

  Wow Microsoft I know times are tough but you are giving away a KIA? A friggin’ KIA!? Yes that’s right. Major Nelson posted today details on Microsoft’s E3 giveaway extravaganza. It looks like you have to already have a valid Xbox Live account to enter but who doesn’t these days? And it even looks like they are giving [Continue]

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