Monday, September 29, 2008

While the (non-)news about “Halo 3: Keep It Clean” roared onto the scene early last week and continued throughout, until the Xbox LIVE outage earlier today, the more surreptitiously released Halo 3 Title Update 2 (affectionately acronym’ed as “TU2″ by Bungiers themselves) came online on 9/23/2008… Even I hadn’t realized the relevance of this that [...]

Larry Hryb (“Major Nelson” of Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox Live fame) had posted earlier that the downtime for Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com is: A preparatory exercise for the still-coming-soon new Xbox LIVE experience that was demo’ed during this year’s game conferences (like E3); Impacting both the Xbox LIVE service and the “My Xbox” section of Xbox.com [...]

Downtime for Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com

September 29, 2008 at 3:00 AM · 3 comments

in Gaming,Services

As previously announced, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com will be experiencing downtime, presumably for system maintenance, synchronization, and upgrades– in about one minute. What remains to be seen are: When are the systems coming back online (one day downtime?), and will they be available at the same time? What are the new features, and [...]