After only two weeks, Gears of War 2 has already dropped from the top of the Xbox 360’s most-played list (according to Major Nelson’s Live data). After debuting at numero uno, Gears was the first game since GTA IV to knock Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 from their incredibly long lasting, rotating perch. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 1, 2008
If you were one of the many pissed-off Non-US Xbox Live Gold members who felt slighted by your exclusion from Microsoft’s Black Friday sale, Major Nelson has great news for you. Throughout the month of December, the Xbox Live Marketplace will be celebrating the holidays with special “Holiday Deal[s] of the Week.” The deals will be [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Today Microsoft announced that they, too, are getting in on the Black Friday sales by cutting the prices of multiple Xbox LIVE Marketplace items. After posting the full list on his blog, however, Xbox’s Major Nelson was faced with another issue entirely: angry gamers not in the US. As we already knew, once again Microsoft’s latest [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
With Thanksgiving upon us, many avid shoppers in these United States are already psychologically and physically preparing themselves for the madness that is Black Friday. Frequently (albeit inaccurately) purported to be the busiest shopping day of the year, this Friday, millions of Americans will flock, lemming-like, to their local malls and shopping centers to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
On Facebook, Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson changed his status to “Halo 3 Recon is no more…” Curious (and a little confused), I followed the link he posted to accompany it which led to his very brief new blog post. Looks like it is no more -– because it’s now Halo 3: ODST. According to Bungie’s post [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 18, 2008
If you’ve been messing around with the Netflix streaming in NXE, chances are you noticed two things: a new notes column on the queue page, and the sudden removal of dozens of movies. Eventually, everyone figured out that the vanishing movies had one thing in common: they were all distributed by Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 17, 2008
Over the weekend, Xbox Live went through a period of downtime and technical issues the likes of which had not been seen since last year’s holidays. Was the downtime due to the high volume of online gamers crowding up Gears of War 2 or Call of Duty: World at War, or was it perhaps related [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
This week, Microsoft had an early gift for some modded consoles in their Xbox Live update: a nice, festive banning. According to Major Nelson, “Microsoft has taken action against a small percentage of Xbox 360 consoles that have been illegally modified in order to play pirated games.”
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 23, 2008
You hear me? It’s goin’ down. We’re going to show that little so-and-so a thing or two. Oh, wait — Microsoft beat us to it, and will be taking Xbox LIVE down personally. For only 24 hours, mind you. In a quick warning email from MS, we’ve been asked to pass along the word that [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 3, 2008
Aside from the occasional, unintentional leak, publicists basically control games journalism as we know it today. They can’t tell us how to think or stop us from criticizing their games, but to a large degree, they determine who gets what and goes where when they please. How?
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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