The Xbox 360 sports an exalted achievement system – which has the ability to make gamers play through tedious bits of games they wouldn’t otherwise bother with, as well as purchase games they wouldn’t generally be caught dead playing; all for the sake of a misguided sense of self-worth, or digital e-penis extension. The obvious inspiration for the PS3’s me-too …

Microsoft are busy rolling out a preview program – similar to the pre-NXE launch preview – and are currently looking for test subjects preview participants. To gain entry in to the preview lottery you’ll need to visit Microsoft Connect ,sign in with your Windows LIVE ID/Gamertag and fill in a short questionnaire. According to Microsoft’s Major Nelson : We’re looking …

I was listening to Major Nelsons podcast earler today and besides all the interesting, but gamingly* useless, information on Iraq were a few nuggets of interesting Xbox 360 information. First up was the fact that they have heard all your complaints about how slow the Xbox 360 guide is and they are working on speeding it up significantly, now personally …

If you’re an Xbox 360 owner and were planning on muscling in on some multiplayer action on next week’s public holiday, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you. That’s right folks – Microsoft have scheduled maintenance and upgrades to Xbox Live’s infrastructure on the very day that we don’t actually have to be at work. Last Updated: June …

So you must have seen the news stories doing the rounds about the awesome Xbox 360 shoes by now? Well that isn’t what this story is about. No this story is way more impressive than that, Microsoft has just announced (about 10 hours ago) that the latest Avatar clothing pack that has sent the podophilliacs crazy. This pack contains a …

Major Nelson has just announced on his blog that the latest wave of gamerscore resets has begun. This time it seems to be specifically targetted against Gears 2 achievement hacking but by the sound of it you are going to lose all of your gamerscore if you have been caught, the score reset is going to take a bit of …

If you’re awake now (or from another country) then you are in luck. Major Nelson is just about to join the entire Xbox Live team for one of their regular meetings (The meeting starts at Midnight SA Time) and you have been personally invited to join in and ask some questions. Okay that’s not entirely true as everyone with a …

If you’ve just tried connecting to Xbox Live and have received a prompt to update, don’t panic! Don’t stare at the update screen with any level of excitement for what’s to come either though, as the update brings along with it…absolutely no new features whatsoever. It does fix some game interruptions some players have been experiencing with a limited number …