The news from Namco had come out a few days earlier, and with such timeliness with regard to the Soulcalibur IV tournament, too: Darth Vader is available later today as an Xbox LIVE downloadable item for the Soulcalibur IV game. Priced at 400 MS points (about $5.00 USD), it should introduce the dark fella for [...]
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Hurry up, before it’s too late! For those of you who were wondering what that odd blurb in the booklet and the inside jacket of your Soulcalibur IV game case was all about… the tournament for Namco’s Soulcalibur IV has officially kicked off. Already, the first of the three Brackets has filled up. However, you still have [...]
The Setup Hanging Stefan, Tonya’s “fashion consultant”, out of the car window while avoiding the ‘fuzz in order to scare the security code out of Stefan is hard work. So, to take a little breather from the screaming and chasing in Saints Row, I dropped back into the Xbox Dashboard and browsed through my Games [...]
Earlier this week, the Xbox Dashboard began running the promotional info for the upcoming “New Xbox LIVE Experience” (NXE) that was initially shown publicly during Microsoft’s [MSFT] PAX 2008 showing. In addition to the information provided via the Dashboard, a Web site segment (they’re calling it a “microsite”, ::grin::) was set up to provide similar [...]
We’re at about the halfway mark for the run of Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE “Extended Play Download Days“, where several games’ add-ons have been temporarily reduced in price. The promotion started September 5 and will continue until October 31. Major Nelson’s blog provides a nice list of the applicable add-ons on sale, but here’s a quick [...]
Earlier, we’d reported the Xbox LIVE service interruption for system maintenance purposes, as well as to prepare for the upcoming new Xbox LIVE Experience software upgrade. A scant couple of hours ago, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Xbox LIVE game service became available again, after a bit more than one (1) day’s worth of outage. N.B. Other related Javamancy posts [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Up and Down: Upcoming Downtime On September 29, 2008, starting at 12:01 AM PT (3:01 AM ET), Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com will be shut down for system upgrades and other changes for approximately a day. Those of you who frequent the Xbox 360 Dashboard may have noticed the system bulletin concerning this. Keep in mind [...]
