Microsoft released the dates and prices for next month’s Xbox Live Block Party. It’s a month of new Xbox Live Arcade titles being released every week with the grand finale being the release of Game Room, where your avatar will be able to play retro arcade titles and other new titles to be released later. [Continue]
Microsoft’s Xbox Live Deal of the Week is cutting the price on this classic Duke Nukem shooter, Duke Nukem 3D. Taking a whopping 50% off the price bringing it down from 800 Microsoft Point to 400 Microsoft Points which translates into only $5.00. Cheap. The deal only runs until Sunday so get your mitts on [Continue]
In a time when BioShock 2, FIFA 10, New Super Mario Bros and even Modern Warfare 2 are all vying for your hard earned cash the number one game in all of the United kingdom is…Aliens vs. Predator?! Really UK, really?! The sci-fi shooter definitely had some stiff competition but it still managed to take [Continue]
Avid gamer or not, chances are you’ve probably stumbled across this video already. It spread like herpes at a Lindsay Lohan sex party over the weekend. In the clip it appears that an Xbox Live moderator with the Gamertag “The Pro” (real whitty) passes out bans like flu vaccines at a nursing home. Get on [Continue]
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]
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]
2009 was the most profitable year for the Xbox Live Arcade service so far according to estimates by the research group Forecasting and Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE). The online gaming hub made $103.4 million dollars in the 2009 fiscal year, a whopping 34% jump in profits from 2008. Recession…what recession!? One of the major [Continue]
Today will mark the day that Microsoft fully turned the page from their generation one consoles and passed the torch to the Xbox 360 and beyond. On April 15 they will discontinue the Xbox Live service for the original Xbox console and it’s games. A move that will effect hundreds of thousands if not millions [Continue]
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]
According to an email being circulated by Microsoft it looks like Xbox Live’s Zune Marketplace will be down tonight January 25th, and possibly into tomorrow for some scheduled maintenance. The service will go down at 10:00 P.M. Pacific Time (1:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time for you east-coasters) and may be down for as long as [Continue]
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]
Rumors have been swirling for the past few months that Microsoft was going to be bringing their Xbox Live service to mobile phones. And thanks to some great investigative work by Kotaku, it looks like those rumors are all but confirmed. // [Continue]
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]
Fans of Left 4 Dead 2 who are too cheap to buy a Gold subscription to Xbox Live are in luck. Starting at noon on Friday, January 15 you will be able to play online multiplayer on Xbox Live for free. That’s right you cheap bastards, for the low, low retail price of $0.00 you [Continue]
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]
