It appears that the traditionally free Playstation Network is going the way of Xbox Live; that’s right – it’s becoming a premium, paid for service. At a recent media/investor conference, a slide was shown displaying how the PSN was to provide a “new revenue stream from subscription,” something that’s been confirmed by Kaz Hirai. Before Xbox Live gold users …

So here is one of those stories that kind of make me laugh but get my blood boiling at the same time. A law firm that specialises in consumer class actions has posted a form on it’s site that requests that users (read filthy pirates) that were banned from Xbox Live all get involved in a class action lawsuit against …

Are you a sad Xbox Live silver user, forced to watch from the sidelines while your Gold-subscription paying friends get their game on? Do you feel dejected by smug PSN users who laud their multiplayer service’s gratis nature over you? Well, Microsoft has awarded you a small reprieve – as Xbox Live Gold will be free for a short period, …

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 …

It appears that Microsoft were not in the giving mood this Halloween and rather went for the Trick part of the famous trick or treat. Instead of offering up free points, membership or games they decided to unleash yet another wave of Xbox Live banishments for pirates, cheats and hackers. In an act of ultimate irony the newly banned pirates …

Hey social networking fans! Those of you who signed up for the Xbox Live update preview may just be thrilled to know that it’s gone live. What does this mean to you? Well,if you’ve been selected to participate it means you get to abuse Facebook (ugh), Twitter (yay!) and the err…Zune Marketplace all from the comfort of your Xbox 360. …

Now here is an idea that I expected Microsoft to have implemented many years ago as it’s now common practice in business to reward your loyal clients and the Xbox Live Arcade seems to be the perfect candidate for a rewards system. This latest rumour has come about thanks to an email that has been sent to selected Xbox Live …

As most of you know, the next update for the Xbox Dashboard is going to be a fairly significant one. The inclusion of Twitter, Facebook and Last.FM is sure to float many a gamers boat as they wait in anticipation for the update to release sometime in November. The folks from Joystiq have put together a really great preview video …