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Xbox Live Price Increase Coming November 1
Xbox Live Gold subscribers might want to renew before November 1, when the price of a yearly subscription to the service jumps $10 in North America. According to a post on Major Nelson’s blog, after eight years’ of Xbox Live at the $50 a year price point, the service is finally seeing a price hike.…
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Microsoft Is Ready To Ban Halo: Reach Pirates
As leaked copies of Halo: Reach hit the torrent sites, Microsoft tells Kotaku that they are aggressively investigating the leak and are fully prepared to hand out bans to anyone caught playing the game pre-release. It happens every time a big game comes out, but when it’s a game as big as Bungie’s final Halo…
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Grab The Keys To The City In Crackdown 2
Ruffian Games and Microsoft detail the Toy Box add-on for Crackdown 2 today which adds the eagerly anticipated Keys to the City cheat mode for free, as well as a handful of new content for those willing to pay the price. The Toy Box updated for Crackdown 2 is an update in two parts, one…
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Microsoft GamesCom Press Event Lunch Unboxing
The most important question at Microsoft’s Gamescom play session on Tuesday? What are they serving for lunch? That question answered here. Perhaps my fascination with the food served at press gatherings stems from the fact that 90% of my Gamescom diet comes from exactly these sorts of boxes. Well, not exactly these sorts of boxes.…
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This Is How You Play Kinectimals
Many people played Kinectimals at Microsoft’s gameplay day in Germany yesterday, but no one played it with as much skill or heart as our own Michael McWhertor. Look at how much fun he is having petting that dangerous animal. Don’t you wish that was you? It was all I could do to stop myself from…
By Mike Fahey
