Time to outfit your Xbox Live Avatars once again, because now we have Rock Band 3 Avatar items available!
Check out the list of ‘em, pricing and videos showing off these bad boy.
Rock Band 3 Xbox Live Avatar items now available
On September - 2 - 2010
Xbox Live Gold gets a price hike
On August - 30 - 2010
Hurray for capitalism! Time for gamers to get prissy again.
Microsoft announced today that as of November 1, 2010, the price of Xbox Live Gold will increase in Canada, the US, UK and Mexico. The annual price for Xbox Live Gold increases with $10 in the US, with appropriate price hikes in the other mentioned countries as well.
Dragon Age DLC “Witch Hunt” will conclude Origins storyline
On August - 25 - 2010
BioWare has just announced Witch Hunt, the next (and possibly last) piece of downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins.
Catch the spoiler heavy details after the cut.
Torchlight “hopefully” hitting XBLA and PSN for holidays
On August - 22 - 2010
Max Schaefer, CEO of Runic Games, has stated that he’d hopefully like to release Torchlight on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network by this holiday season.
Xbox Live’s 1 vs 100 being put down
On July - 15 - 2010
Microsoft has announced that Xbox Live’s “1 vs 100″ has been cancelled.
The game was downloaded over 3 million times and played by 114,000 users in the US and 81,000 in the UK and Republic of Ireland during its Beta period, but it apparently couldn’t sate Microsoft’s hunger.
Xbox LIVEapalooza Music Game DLC sale, July 6th through 12th
On July - 2 - 2010
If you’ve been waiting to get some Rock Band/Guitar Hero/LIPS songs for your Xbox 360, maybe complaining about how pricey some of the individual songs or packs are, I think that this is the perfect news for you.
Come July 6th, Microsoft and Xbox Live are bringing you the very first LIVEapalooza! That, to you, means that a ton of downloadable content is getting discounted from the 6th to the 12th.
Full list after the cut!
SEGA considering Xbox Live & PSN releases of Saturn titles
On June - 30 - 2010
SEGA producer Yosuke Okunari said today while talking with Game Watch Impress that the firm is considering releasing digital downloads of Sega Saturn titles in the future.
E3 2010: ESPN coming to Xbox Live
On June - 14 - 2010
Microsoft’s still shooting for the Xbox becoming the ultimate living room entertainment platform, and during Microsoft’s E3 press conference, the sports channel ESPN was announced for Xbox Live. It’s probably America exclusive, so sorry my fellow Europeans.
This deal is an exclusive partnership between ESPN and Microsoft, offering live and on demand sports events – Football, Basketball, NBA, MLB, Soccer (European Football) – the works. This is a killer deal. Xbox Kinect allow you to control the games you watch via voice command and gestures.
The sports you want, when you want it. In America…
E310: Xbox 360 Media Briefing Live Blog
On June - 14 - 2010
We’re live at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010 covering all the breaking news and all the exciting developments – and we’re Live today at the Microsoft Xbox 360 E3 2010 Media Briefing, where Project Natal will be elaborated on Rareware will be reborn and Gears of War 3 will be properly revealed. At least, we think so – they’re just our guesses!
Check out our LiveBlog below, and get involved by sending us messages and comments!
Halo: Reach beta is live!
On May - 3 - 2010
The wait’s over, folks! The Halo: Reach beta is now live on XBL, so grab your Halo 3: ODST discs and get to downloading!
The Halo Waypoint Twitter gave us the scoop not too long ago.
“The Halo: Reach beta can now be accessed through your Halo 3: ODST campaign disc. #Reach”
Download clocks in at 1.15 GB. Hop to it!
360 exclusive Split/Second demo out this week
On April - 26 - 2010
[UPDATE] Apparently when they said “this week” they basically meant right now this second! It’s already up on Xbox Live to download. Go download the demo, you won’t regret it.
Chatting on this week’s Major Nelson podcast, Split/Second director Nick Baynes revealed that a demo for the insanely cool looking racing game will be hitting Xbox Live later this week… and will be exclusive to the format.
The demo will allow players to try out the airport level from the full game. When it’s being released on Xbox Live, and whether it will be a multi-player or single-player demo, is unknown.
“There’s a demo exclusively out on Xbox, which is out this week I believe, so everyone will be able to play the airport track very, very soon on Xbox 360,” said Baynes.
Split/Second is due for release in the UK on May 21st, for PS3, 360 and PC.
Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing now available on XBL Marketplace
On April - 22 - 2010
Left 4 Dead 2′s long-awaited piece of DLC “The Passing” is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
You can queue it up right here for 560 MSP ($7). The download clocks in at 284 MB.
It’s not available for PC yet, but when it hits Steam, it’ll be available for free.
This piece of DLC sees the fearsome foursome of Left 4 Dead 2 meet up with the original cast of Left 4 Dead…save for one. The sacrifice of said character will be explained in an upcoming piece of DLC for the first game.
If you’re not sure about it, grab the trailer for The Passing.
More information about the new piece of DLC after the cut.
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Halo 3 finally hits Xbox Live Games on Demand
On April - 20 - 2010
No sooner has Xbox Live for the original Xbox been laid to rest, and Halo 3 has gone up on Xbox Live’s Games on Demand, just in time to soothe all those lonely souls who have lost their way without Halo 2 in their lives anymore.
Also joining Halo 3 in this week’s Games on Demand update are Saints Row, Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) and Need for Speed Carbon.
Something in there for everybody… unless you have very fussy tastes!
Original Xbox Live is dead.
On April - 16 - 2010
Well, it’s official now. The original Xbox Live is dead. Time of death: 23:48pm BST.
Director of Policy and Enforcement for Live on 360 Stephen Toulose had this to say on twitter:
“Remember that old ‘banned’ European xbox commercial? Sad moment guys, the baby just landed in the grave. So long xbox 1 LIVE”
From what we’ve been told this only applies to the US. European Live servers are still alive and kicking.
So can we say that puts an official close on the last console generation?
Two years of Xbox Live for $60
On April - 16 - 2010
You want a year of Xbox Live for $60? No? Well, how about two?
Dealspl.us has an excellent money-saving deal for you 360 online gamers where you can get not one, but two years of Xbox Live for a measly $60.
By upgrading to a Gold Xbox Live account, you not only get to play online with most multiplayer games, you’re entitled to the Xbox Live Deal of the Week where every week, Microsoft will reduce the price of DLC, Xbox Live Arcade games and more.
There are a ton of other perks to having a Gold account, and for so cheap, you can’t afford not to do it! C’mon! Join the best online gaming service available!
