Xbox Live’s Law Enforcer hands in his banhammer
Xbox Live's top cop has turned in his badge. Have the recent hacks forced his hand?
Hey, if you already have MW3, don’t play it!
If you've managed to get an early copy of Modern Warfare 3, don't play it online.
Xbox Live accounts weren’t hacked
Xbox Live's Stephen Toulouse explains how his Xbox Live account was hacked and how it can't happen to you... well not easily anyway
Xbox Live Sets New Concurrent User Record
Undoubtedly driven by the colossal sales of a certain game involving Warfare of a Modern nature, Xbox Live has now broken its own record for concurrently online users. Major Nelson let the world know (Via Twitter, obviously) that on Thursday the service recorded the highest number of users online at the same time, a figure of over two million, or …
Pirates send death threats to Stephen Toulouse – Xbox 360 Banmaster
Stephen Toulouse is the man tasked with keeping Xbox Live clean and doing his best to slow down the unstoppable wave that is piracy on the Xbox 360. So you can imagine he is not the most loved person in the Xbox 360 pirating community but this is honestly taking it to far. Apparently someone managed to get his personal …
Microsoft perma-banning early Borderlands and Forza 3 players
The ban hammer is out again on Xbox Live so it’s always a good idea to scan through your friends list to see if any of your friends are dirty pirates. Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft’s man of the law, has been warning pirates via his twitter account that anyone spotted playing Borderlands or Forza 3 prior to their release dates will …
ODST Pirates. Meet The Ban Hammer.
A few tweets started popping up yesterday from folks like Major Nelson and Stephen Toulouse saying that they are already seeing illegal copies of Halo 3 ODST being played online and are ready to drop the hammer on them. Toulouse’s exact tweet goes a little something like this: “Hrm. I spy with my little eye some *illegitimate* ODST players. No …
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