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Archive for category: Xbox
How To Remove Your Credit Card Details from Xbox Live – Part III
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 they promised? Err, no they [...]
How To Remove Your Credit Card Details from Xbox Live – Part II
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. I say start the process, [...]
S.W.O.S. now available on Xbox Live – Sort of
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 incorrectly disconnected users that attempted [...]
How To Remove Credit Card Details From Xbox Live
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 very easy to do. Enter [...]
Xbox Live Gold Memberships Free – 23-26th Nov 07
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 “headline acts” apparently. Quite what [...]
London Games Festival – Xbox 360 Lounge
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 7QH Nearest tube station: Oxford [...]
Xbox Live Arcade – Small Arms
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 nicer graphics. Some features: 12 [...]
Xbox Live Arcade – Retrotastic!
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 little sound bite was used [...]
Xbox Live – Free for European Gamers (20th – 29th Sep 06)
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 memberships will be upgraded to [...]
Microsoft’s Game Studio thing
So, Microsoft are releasing a free game development tool, complete with obligatory name that begins with X. The XNA Game Studio Express beta will be available 30th August, 2006, as a free download on Windows XP, for development on the Windows XP platform. XNA Game Studio Express will give anyone with a Windows XP-based PC access to a unified development [...]
Xbox LIVE Arcade – Release roundup
Here’s a quick summary of the upcoming releases on Xbox LIVE arcade. After months and months of zero releases Microsoft are now attempting to release 1 new game every Wednesday for the forseeable future. I’m not one to complain, but giving us crap like Frogger (400 points or $5) when there are so many classic arcade games out there dying [...]
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