I’m still paying for a Gold subscription, 4 months after cancelling my card. Here are two slightly different reasons from Barclays.

Update 7th Feb 2009: The saga is over! Microsoft have now given us the option to remove credit card details through Xbox.com. See Remove Your Credit Card Details from Xbox Live – ONLINE! for details. So 30 days have now passed since I was called by Xbox support. Have they removed my card details as
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Update 7th Feb 2009: The saga is over! Microsoft have now given us the option to remove credit card details through Xbox.com. See Remove Your Credit Card Details from Xbox Live – ONLINE! for details. In my previous post I outlined how to start the process to get your card details removed from Xbox Live.
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Sensible Software’s Codemasters S.W.O.S finally appeared on Xbox Live Arcade today, after a wait that’s seems like years! And then it vanished. Or was it all just an illusion? Apparently not. It was simply that the wrong version of S.W.O.S was made available to the masses. According to Codemasters the problem was that: This version
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Update 7th Feb 2009: The saga is over! Microsoft have now given us the option to remove credit card details through Xbox.com. See Remove Your Credit Card Details from Xbox Live – ONLINE! for details. A few months ago I decided to purchase a months Xbox Live Gold membership. As you all know this is
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From November 23 to 26 there is going to be an European-only online event called Xtival 07. Everyone who connects to Xbox Live during this time will get a free gold membership. Microsoft say that there will be lots of cake events, competitions and exclusive downloads. For existing Xbox Live Gold members there will be
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Microsoft’s contribution to this years London Games Festival is a great big Xbox 360 lounge in Soho. I’m talking lots of cushions, sofas, 360′s (surprise, surprise) and 300+ games all in one big room. Best of all it’s FREE. Right, I’m in. Anyone else? Location details: The Vinyl Factory Basement Studio Marshall Street London W1F
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Small Arms was released on Xbox Live arcade today priced at 800 Microsoft points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.30). Thankfully the game is none of that retro tat which is best left in the past that Xbox Live Arcade seems to be full of recently. The game, well think Super Smash Brothers with guns and
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Sensible World of Soccer or S.W.O.S is coming to XBLA ladies and gentlemen! Yes, yes, yes. Finally, Microsoft starts relasing decent “classic” games on live arcade rather than total crap like Frogger and Time Pilot. You can play S.W.O.S using the original graphics or utilise the new “high-resolution look and feel”. Mmm, I’m sure that
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Yep, that’s right, for all you scabbers who – like me – haven’t got a Xbox Live gold membership but want to get those pesky online-only achievements, well now you can free of charge courtesy of Mr Microsoft. From the 20th September 06 at 00.01 (GMT) to 29th September 06 at 23.59 (GMT) all silver
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