Posts Tagged ‘Xbox Live’

Upcoming Free Xbox LIVE Weekends

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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With the latest batch of new LIVE Features now available, we're kicking off a few FREE LIVE Weekends so that Silver members can get a free trial of all the Xbox LIVE features.

During the free LIVE Weekends, all Xbox LIVE Silver members can enjoy: online multiplayer, Facebook, Twitter, Last.FM, Netflix, Sky Player, Halo Waypoint and 1 v 100 (Some features are only available in specific ...

Microsoft Banning more than just Pirates?

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

xbox, games, modifactions, mods, banned

So by now we have all heard that Microsoft has recently been banning consoles from connecting to the Xbox Live Service for violating its terms of service. In Microsofts efforts to combat piracy, the banhammer has cracked as many as 1,000,000 users. I think we can effectively call this a ban nuking.

With many warnings leading up to the bans, by Major ...

Insider says MS Plans to Ban 1M Console

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

xbox 360, bans, torrents, console

A conversation with a friend who works for a call center that handles an Xbox 360 account has yielded a disturbing truth: Microsoft has started its annual Xbox Live banning spree and it has disabled 600,000 accounts so far in the US and Canada.

The target of the banning spree are mainly people who have modified their consoles to play pirated games. My trusty source says that they have been given instructions to push for a ...

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Returns

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

One of the most celebrated fighting games in history is coming back for another round! Check out the first teaser trailer, art and details for "Marvel vs. Capcom 2"!

Nine years after taking the arcade gaming scene by storm and over six years after making its original home console debut, "Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes" returns! Slated to hit Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade and PS3's PSN, expect ...

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The Samsung Instinct (aka iPhone Hunter)

Despite what we and other media have hinted at, despite what Sprint itself is spending a lot of money trying to convey, the Samsung Instinct is not an iPhone killer. To be sure, Samsung and Sprint borrowed liberally from the iPhone playbook when it came to look and feel. But the comparison itself isn’t [...]

Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps

According to iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire Jonathan Zdziarski, Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable applications on your device. Apparently, the new 2.x firmware contains a URL which points to a page containing a list of “unauthorized” apps — a move which suggests that the device makes occasional [...]

The Birthday Boys

In a small, shingled 100-year-old farmhouse near Fowler, Calif., there lives a two-headed bearded dragon lizard.

Zak-n-Wheezie celebrated their first birthday this month, making them possibly the longest-living two-headed bearded dragon lizard on record, and landing owners Barbara and Frank Witte in a “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!” cartoon.

“That was ...

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