How dumb are people? Someone at the weekend put a phony ad on Xbox Live. Advertising what, exactly? Oh, you know, just someone’s child. Yup, a Florida woman’s child was listed as “for sale” by a couple of knuckleheads (presumably this is at least a two-man job: one guy to come up with the idea, and the other to convince him to carry it out). They even included the woman’s phone number in the ad!
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by Nicholas Deleon on March 11, 2009
by Peter Ha on March 5, 2009
In the off chance that you guys haven’t logged onto your Xbox in the last few days I wanted to tell you that there’s an in-dash special on Xbox Live Gold memberships. For a limited time Silver members can upgrade to Gold for $40. That is all.
by Nicholas Deleon on February 26, 2009
To quote Chris Matthews, “Oh, God.” It seems a woman was recently banned from Xbox Live because her sexual orientation—she’s a lesbian—has been deemed “offensive” by Microsoft. Let’s see how long it takes for Microsoft to “reconsider” this ban. (updated)
by John Biggs on February 20, 2009
Are you 12? Do you not like someone on Xbox Live? Do you not have to go to the table right now and finish your yogurt? Well, you’re in luck because for $20 you can kick someone off of Xbox Live.
A fairly breathless story by the BBC describes hackers who send DDOS attacks to certain IP addresses, kicking the victim’s IP address off of XBL. There are two popular methods, one involving hosting a game and watching incoming traffic and another basically asking the victim “YO WUT IZ UR IP ADDY?” Both seem to work quite well when dealing with pre-teens.
by Arun Venkatesan on February 10, 2009
Soon you will be able to play GTA IV or its The Lost and the Damned expansion on Xbox LIVE for free. Specifically from Tuesday, February 17 at 9:00AM PST to Sunday, February 22 11:59PM PST, multiplayer service that usually required a paid Xbox LIVE Gold subscription will be free for owners of those games.
by Doug Aamoth on February 10, 2009
I really, really hope someone with too much money and little-to-no first person shooter skills wins this auction. Imagine seeing a player with the Gamertag “Hitman” on your team in Call of Duty, only to watch him get killed over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
by Nicholas Deleon on February 5, 2009
by Peter Ha on January 26, 2009
BODIES AS SHIELDS!!! Oh wait, wrong game. Tehehe.
by Doug Aamoth on January 25, 2009
Wow, here’s a new one. Apparently Nate Robinson of the New York Knicks plays quite a bit on Xbox Live and constantly has trouble trying to prove to fellow gamers that he’s really Nate Robinson.
So in last night’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers, Robinson apparently made a special salute before shooting free throws in order to prove to someone on Xbox Live that it was really him playing Call of Duty: World at War.
by Nicholas Deleon on January 23, 2009
So Halo Wars, which comes out in North America on March 3, has gone gold. (Unless, of course, Microsoft is lying to us.) That means, for the non-nerds in the house, that the game is all done and Microsoft is busying pressing copy after copy in some plant somewhere.
by Nicholas Deleon on January 14, 2009
North American Xbox 360 owners will be able to download the Resident Evil 5 demo on January 26. That’s free and clear: no weird hacking required.
by Nicholas Deleon on December 17, 2008
Microsoft is up to no good. Redmond has just admitted to tampering with people’s misbegotten Resident Evil 5demoin an effort to prevent them from playing it before Capcom says it’s okay.
by Doug Aamoth on December 11, 2008
What does Microsoft think of Sony’s PlayStation Home service? Xbox 360 group product manager Aaron Greenberg told Kotaku the following:
“What Home to me feels like is Second Life for hardcore gamers. It doesn’t feel like it broadens the experience and invites people in. When they unveiled it, it seemed innovative. I think what’s happened is now here we are a couple of years later and we feel beyond that. It feels like 2005 tech in 2008. I’m not sure that’s what people want.”
by Nicholas Deleon on September 30, 2008
Fire up Xbox Live for a “glimpse” of the upcoming New Xbox Experience, Microsft’s latest update to the Xbox System Software.
The Avatars are still lame, sure, but the enhanced multimedia options are a welcome treat.
by Nicholas Deleon on September 29, 2008
Would-be Xbox 360 killer app Fable II comes out on October 21, but it’s now emerged that the game will ship without a functional online co-op mode. That’s right, after you make the long, lonely drive back from GameStop that Tuesday, you won’t immediately be able to hop on Xbox Live to play with your friends.
That said, you won’t have to wait very long for online co-op. Lionhead says it should have the mode up and running within a week of the game’s release. The company is merely trying to ensure that the mode works as well as possible when it goes live. For that we should thank Lionhead, but we should also question why, after so many years in development, the game isn’t done yet.
by Greg Kumparak on September 27, 2008
Anybody who completely relies on Microsoft for all of their entertainment needs is going to be bored straight out of their minds when Monday, September 29th rolls around. At 12:01 AM PST, both the Xbox Live and the entire Zune service will be taken down for maintenance. Live will be out for 24 hours, while Zune will go dark for closer to two days.
According to Major Nelson, the Live outage is in preparation for the Xbox experience dashboard and feature upgrades coming later this fall. They’re just laying the foundation right now, though – when things come back up on Tuesday morning, everything will be just as it was before. No new features, no new dashboard.
by Nicholas Deleon on September 24, 2008
A cool 800 Microsoft points will get you all the womanizing, blue collar fun that is Duke Nukem 3D for the Xbox Live Arcade. The classic shooter’s graphics have been bumped up to high definition, and there’s an eight-player death match, conveniently named DukeMatch.
Bad news for you folks in Germany and Korea: the games isn’t available to you. Mr. Nukem is too crude for your learned cultures.
by Nicholas Deleon on September 6, 2008
Microsoft has a new scheme designed to get people excited about watching movies on Xbox Live, which isn’t half-bad as it is now. They’re launching something called the Xbox Film Club, which gives a handful of lucky people (you have to enter and win) the chance to see new, hit movies before their theatrical release.
It does seem to be UK-centric at this point, what with one of the movies being touted, Tropic Thunder, having come out in the U.S. a few weeks ago.
Now how ’bout a U.S. version?
via Xbox-Scene
by Peter Ha on September 5, 2008
Get it while it’s hot, folks. Actually, you have until the end of October. Hopefully they offer a better assortment, but that’s just me.
by John Biggs on August 21, 2008
While it’s no Duke Nukem Forever, Duke Nukem 3D has been been updated and will be available on XBox Live in September. Rumor has it that the new version will include co-op and multiplayer modes as well as an on-line score board. You could also just download it for your Mac/Linux box or PC, but you need those achievements, don’t you OCD boy.
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