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  • Reminder: Xbox Live Maintenance on Tuesday

    One last reminder that on Tuesday, June 16 th starting at 12:01AM PST Xbox Live will be offline for up to 24 hours while we perform scheduled maintenance. During this time Xbox Live and the ‘My Xbox’ section of Xbox.com will be unavailable, and the Xbox.com forums will be read-only. The rest of Xbox.com will be available with limited interruptions
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Mon, Jun 15 2009
  • Wednesday on XBLA: Magic: The Gathering and Sam & Max

    The Arcade titles for this week have been announced, and they're two titles that I’ve been asked about over and over - so I suspect this’ll make a lot of you happy! I’m supposed to be in a meeting any minute now so I’m going to be efficient and blatantly steal this morning’s press release: Glory, Conquest and Comedy
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Mon, Jun 15 2009
  • CoD:WaW Map Pack 2, Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island, and more!

    What: Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 2 How much: 800 Points (except in Germany where it's 600) Where: All Xbox Live regions except Japan Details: [ESRB: M (Mature) BLOOD AND GORE,INTENSE VIOLENCE,STRONG LANGUAGE] Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 2 continues to expand the addictive COD multiplayer experience with four new maps. Battle to
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Thu, Jun 11 2009
  • It's Sega Genesis day on Xbox Live Arcade

    ...or i can haz sega genesis yayz! (token lolspeak for now, i'm slammed today, more later) It's XBLA Wednesday and we've got six Sega Genesis classics for you. They're 400 MIcrosoft Points each, and are available in all Xbox Live countries. Altered Beast ( add to queue ) Comix Zone ( add to queue ) Gunstar Heroes ( add to queue ) Phantasy
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Wed, Jun 10 2009
  • The Xbox Live Meetup at E3 2009

    Now that the (amazing!) Xbox 360 Media Briefing is behind us we’ve got the chance to stop and take a deep breath. Ready – done. Next! No trip to Southern California is complete without us stopping at In-N-Out – why don’t you join us? Whether you’re attending E3 or not we’d love the chance to get to meet you. We’ll
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Mon, Jun 1 2009
  • Thursday news 'n stuff

    New downloads on Marketplace: Need for Speed ProStreet gets a ton of content. Additional tracks and more than a dozen cars from the looks of it. If you're in Japan and play Senko no Rondo (known as WarTech here) you've got more than a dozen new pieces of content. Since I don't speak Japanese I haven't got the foggiest idea what any of
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Thu, Mar 20 2008
  • I can haz Wednesday updatez?

    Forza Motorsport 2 has new downloadable content and an event this Friday: Peugeot 207 S2000 - Get the 2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge championship car, 2007 Peugeot #1 Peugeot Sport Espana 207 Super 2000 for free! This car is also included in the March Car Pack. In-game credits required to purchase this car in career mode. For more information
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Wed, Mar 19 2008
  • More Co-op and Tuesday night thoughts

    Ozymandias has posted again on Co-op gaming, this time with the Co-op Game Bill of Rights: 2008 Edition . Check out the very cool stats collected on co-op gaming activity over Xbox Live. I'm a huge fan of the co-op experience. I've even gone so far as to play a number of single-player games in "co-op" by playing them simultaneously
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Tue, Mar 18 2008
  • Marketplace Update

    There's a ton of new content on Marketplace this morning, here's a partial listing: Rock Band tracks: DOA, The Haunted Thrasher, Evile Blinded By Fear, At The Gates Earache Thrash Pack 01 Karaoke Revolution American Idol 2 (21 tracks!): Broken Wings, China Grove, Does He Love You, Endless Love, Fly, Good Ol' Boys, Hold On, I Don't Wanna
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Tue, Mar 18 2008
  • What games are you going to play this week?

    Most Mondays I have a pretty clear picture of the gaming I'm hoping to get done by week's end. Due to other commitments - work, family, friends, filling out my NCAA bracket - I rarely get half of it done but that doesn't stop me from trying. Here's what I've got on my plate at the moment: Play through Rainbow Six Vegas 2 in single
    Posted to Xbox Live's Major Nelson (Weblog) by e on Mon, Mar 17 2008
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