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Xbox Live is free this weekend

By Gavin Mannion
November 26, 2010
in :  Gaming
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Microsoft has announced that starting from today (sometime) they are upgrading all Xbox Live silvers (standard) to gold members so that you too can go online and pwn at Black Ops. Or listen to the incredibly frustrating American Halo Reach players telling you what they did to your mother last night in their highly annoying screechy 12 year old voice. …

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Local Xbox Live Launch Specials

By Gavin Mannion
October 15, 2010
in :  Gaming
20

Well this is a turn up for the books, apparently Xbox South Africa has been monitoring our reaction to the Xbox Live pricing and while they are obviously defending their pricing they have announced some great launch specials that shouldn’t be ignored. I also hope this is a sign of things to come as getting a great deal on Xbox …

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Microsoft giving back to all those who bought the MW2 DLC

By Gavin Mannion
April 6, 2010
in :  Gaming
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The first Modern Warfare 2 map pack was released last week and if my friends list is anything to go buy the map pack is quite a success with a large amount of people re-entering the MW2 arena over the weekend. Well those people have some more good news this morning with Microsoft refunding everyone who paid for the MW2 …

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Register For Your Free Xbox Live Avatar Chocobo

By Nick De Bruyne
November 26, 2009
in :  Gaming
7

A really large campaign was launched that promised that a free Avatar item would be unlocked for Final Fantasy fans if they all tweeted the living hell out of it on Twitter. Well they did and the item has now been unlocked and all you need to do is to go and register for it. I will post the two …

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Xbox Live in South Africa – Yet another attempt to get noticed

By Gavin Mannion
July 15, 2009
in :  Gaming
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Sometimes it feels like we are banging our head against the wall in regards to some local Xbox Live support but never the less we will keep on going and make sure that Microsoft are well aware of our desires. The latest attempt to get some attention has been started by our local Xbox 360 forum and this one’s pretty …

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Can The New Xbox Experience Make a Difference?

By Gareth
November 24, 2008
in :  Gaming
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Microsoft has always been big about online gameplay as a key feature of its Xbox systems. In fact as far as console go Microsoft are the responsible for bringing online play to the mass market. The multi-billion dollar investment in the Xbox Live online game service is what is supposed to distinguish Microsoft systems from the competition. Xbox Live hit …

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Test Drive The New Xbox Dashboard Experience

By Nick De Bruyne
September 29, 2008
in :  Gaming
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nxe.jpg If you haven't visited Xbox.com recently, you wouldn't have noticed that a few changes have taken place. Microsoft have now added the ability to try out the new Xbox Dashboard Experience within their website by simulating the interface using flash. It does a pretty decent job of showing you how its going to work on a basic level but we are going to have wait for it's release before we get to fiddle around with all of the functions. Seeing that we don't really get to choose whether or not we want to switch to the new interface, we can at least start warming up to the idea. I personally think that the new dashboard is looking fantastic compared to the current one and the avatars aren't looking bad at all. Throw in the party system and 8 player conference chat and I am pretty much completely sold.

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