Last week, Microsoft started rocking its banhammer in a big way, permanently banning 1 million Xbox Live users from the online gaming service for playing on a modded Xbox 360. But was Microsoft's choice to ban 5% ...
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Yesterday Kim reported here about the big ban hammer that Microsoft had dropped on about 600, 000 users that either had modded systems or pirated games. It turns out that those bans are permanent leaving those banned ...
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Cries of frustration, anger and grief rose up from parents' basements across the land as a million Xbox Live players found themselves cut off from the service in an anti-piracy blitz by Microsoft.
Microsoft describes the number of ...
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Xbox Live is going to be down for an unspecified amount of time on August 11th, but this time for a worthwhile and explicable reason. That's because Microsoft will be updating your console with a brand new ...
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Gawker, Twitter, Facebook: all have temporarily gone down in the past few days in what has been a week of high drama on the stormy Internet seas. Last night, Xbox Live joined them in Downtime City, further ...
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Mention Microsoft in any conversation on technology and you will more often than not hear more negative things about the company, and its software, than you will about the things that it is doing ...
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And here everyone thought that gamers are nothing but a bunch of couch potatoes. Well maybe they are but those consoles they are using to play all the hottest games are chewing through a shitload of energy. ...
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Well apparently the in-game ad campaign still running has cost the Obama team $44,000.00. According to GameSpot the ad was run in games such as Burnout Paradise across 10 battleground states. the full campaign started on October ...
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Microsoft's getting in the game of Internet-to-television movie downloads. A new partnership with Netflix will bring streaming movie and show capabilities to TVs via the Xbox 360 gaming system.
The service will be offered only to users ...
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