Xbox LIVE

In a curious twist of fate (wherein Halo 3‘s Legendary Map Pack was offered as the launch offer), Bungie’s original Halo game is being offered as this week’s Holiday Deal of the Week on Xbox LIVE. For those of you who already have the original game in its original form, you most likely won’t need [...]

The Guild on Xbox LIVE

December 2, 2008 at 6:16 PM

in Management,Meanderings

If you’ve been keeping up with the funny online short sitcom series known as The Guild, you’re probably in with the rest of the crowd clamoring for more. At this point, a couple of episodes for the new second season have shown up on The Guild site. Felicia Day and producer Kim showed up at [...]

Xbox LIVE’s Holiday Deal of the Week

December 1, 2008 at 9:12 PM · 2 comments

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As reported by Larry (Major Nelson) earlier today, Xbox LIVE will be starting a new promotional program called “Holiday Deal of the Week”. Obviously on a weekly cycle, there will be an offering that is typically sold via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace that will be discounted or otherwise provided with a purchasing incentive. The announcement [...]

Looking Back Remember when I said that October was a tumultuous month? Well, that was certainly true. But, O what a span of a single month can do to the world! November was definitely much more exciting and troublesome, at the same time, than October. The US and global economies fell even further, staggering on [...]

Xbox LIVE Marketplace Black Friday Sale

November 29, 2008 at 8:37 PM

in Gaming,Services

Not to be outdone by the likes of other online vendors, Microsoft [MSFT] has posted its own Black Friday sale, which extends from November 28 until November 30 evening. I’d missed the initial report from Larry about the sale, but I noticed it when logged into Xbox LIVE earlier today. On the whole, not a [...]

Now that I’ve been bouncing around the NXE for awhile now, what’s the ballyhoo about? Last month, I mentioned the major points that were expected from NXE. And yes, those points are present in the release. But are these items the end-all, be-all of gaming console updates? Er… no. Microsoft Agent Technology The Xbox avatar [...]

Xbox LIVE’s NXE Now!

November 19, 2008 at 4:10 PM · 2 comments

in Gaming,Services,Social Software

Lo and behold! Firing up the Xbox 360 this afternoon caused the immediate downloading of the install package for the New Xbox Experience (NXE) that we’ve been covering, followed by the updating of the system… The new UI is, as previously mentioned, extremely reminiscent of the now-famous Windows Media Center. And, if you’re like me, [...]

Xbox LIVE Downtime Coming Soon

November 16, 2008 at 11:00 PM

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Microsoft’s [MSFT] Major Nelson (yeah, it’s Larry Hryb) reports that there will be another Xbox LIVE service outage, in line with the upcoming NXE launch. The outage will be on November 17, 2008, starting at 2:00 AM PST (about 5:00 AM EST), and it is expected to last around 45 minutes or so. This impacts [...]

Where Art Thou, NXE?

November 15, 2008 at 6:36 PM · 3 comments

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It’s coming. That’s what’s being stated on the Xbox 360 Dashboard for several days now (actually, a few weeks). The New Xbox Experience (NXE) is headed to connected Xbox 360 consoles on November 19, 2008. All things are pointing to an on-time launch; there has been quite a few announced outages (both big and small) [...]

Last Day of Extended Play Download Days

October 31, 2008 at 1:16 AM

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The Extended Play Download Days is expected to wrap up today. So, hopefully you’ve been able to snag all your DLC… I was wandering about (in the physical world) and had picked up a couple of Xbox 360 titles that had been discounted, and I wasn’t quite paying attention to the list of DLC in [...]