| Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack (800 MS Points) More than 7.3 million copies of Halo® 3 have flown off store shelves, upwards of 500 million hours of frag-tacular online gameplay have been logged on Xbox LIVE®, and the Heroic Map Pack (now available as a FREE download) has been downloaded by more than one million gamers and counting. |
| Forza Motorsport 2 March Car Pack (400 MS Points) On March 19, a new downloadable content pack for Forza Motorsport™ 2 hits Xbox LIVE® Marketplace. With 13 stunning new and customizable rides being added to the 340+ car roster, you're sure to discover countless hours of racing and customization in the award-winning Forza 2 experience and online community. |
| New Challenge Packs for Project Gotham Racing 4 Two new Challenge Packs have been released for Project Gotham Racing® 4. Take to the streets with ten new vehicles, and indulge in two new game modes. |
| "Bring Down the Sky" Download 400 MS Points To date, more than 1.6 million gamers have explored the engaging sci-fi universe of Mass Effect™. Beginning on March 10, expand your Mass Effect experience with the release of downloadable content for the award-winning saga. |
| Arcade Hits and Fresh Lineup of Upcoming Titles This week’s Xbox LIVE® Arcade Wednesday is coming a day early with the Tuesday, December 4 launch of the Arcade Hits program, offering some of the best-selling Xbox LIVE Arcade games at permanently reduced prices. Timed with the Xbox LIVE Fall Update, Arcade Hits can be found within the Xbox LIVE Arcade section of the new Game Store, making it easier than ever to build a library of great downloadable games. |
| Xbox 360 delivers huge savings this festive season Bumper new offers bring Blockbuster games and affordable HD gaming home for Christmas Microsoft today gave reason for some early festive cheer with two outstanding value gaming offers this Christmas with the announcement of the Xbox 360™ Pro Bundle and the Xbox 360 Arcade Console. |
| Newsflash: Pac-Man Creator Surprises World with New Mazes on Xbox 360 New York—The year was 1981: Big hair, high-waisted jeans and popped-up collars were popular fashions, "Bette Davis Eyes" topped the charts, Raiders of the Lost Ark hit theaters, and everyone was saving up quarters to play the latest video games. |
| Hands-On: Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta From 5:00 A.M. on May 16 through 11:59 P.M. on June 6, Crackdown™ owners and a few other lucky Halo® fans will get a sneak peek at this year's most anticipated game by participating in the Halo 3 multiplayer beta test on Xbox LIVE®. |
| New Gears of War Multiplayer Map Pack Ready your weapons and prepare for battle as Gears of War®, releases four new action-packed multiplayer maps in the thrilling "Hidden Fronts" Multiplayer Map Pack. |
| WAKKA … WAKKA … WAKKA Microsoft and NAMCO BANDAI Create Video Game History With First-Ever Xbox 360 “Pac-Man®” World Championship MicrosoftCorp. and NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. today made video game history by announcing the first-ever Xbox 360™ “Pac-Man” World Championship, presented by Quiznos. |
| Instant Messaging comes to Xbox 360, expanding the largest social network on television Xbox 360 owners can connect with more than 260 million Windows Live Messenger users on Xbox 360, Windows-based PCs and Windows Mobile-powered devices beginning the week of May 7. |
| Newsflash: New Annex Multiplayer Mode Don't let the lull in gunfire and grenades fool you. Gears of War® is readying its next deadly onslaught with an upcoming title update, currently set to siege Xbox LIVE® on April 9 at 4:00 P.M. Pacific Time. |
| Newsflash: Halo 2 Fans Prepare for New Maps Redmond , Washington— Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today confirmed the upcoming release of two new, eagerly awaited downloadable maps for Halo® 2. The maps will be available as premium downloadable content for Xbox® and Xbox 360™ on April 17. |
| Shivering Isles Expansion (2400 MS Points) The Elder Scrolls® IV: Shivering Isles is the official expansion for The Elder Scrolls® IV: Oblivion™, the 2006 Role-Playing Game (RPG) and Game of the Year. |
| GRAW 2: Advanced Tactics Any tactical shooter places a premium on strategy, but none more so than Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter™ 2. With realistic combat scenarios, A.I. marksmen capable of putting you down with a single shot, and brutal difficulty, GRAW 2 isn't a game you simply step into and beat. |
| GRAW 2 Multiplayer Demo Released The multiplayer demo for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2, the follow-up to the massively popular, smash-hit squad-based action shooter, is now available for free download exclusively on Xbox Live® Marketplace. |
| Global Arcade Challenge Winners Revealed TBack in December and January, thousands of gamers from around the world competed in the Xbox Live Global Arcade Challenge. |
| GamerSpeak: How to Get Your Girl Gaming Guys in the Xbox Community often talk about how they wish their girlfriend or wife was a gamer or at least was more understanding of their habit. |
| Newsflash: Xbox 360 and Windows Vista What does the upcoming release of Windows Vista™ mean for gamers? Cross-platform play, for one thing. Seamless wireless integration with Xbox 360™, for another. |
| Get a Deal on Lumines Live! Add-On Packs Get a Deal on Lumines Live! Add-On Packs If you're craving more musical falling block action, have we got a deal for you. For a limited time only, from January 24 through February 21, score these two new Lumines™ Live! add-on packs at special prices. |
| Criminals on high alert as "Crackdown" goes gold All-action blockbuster is ready to explode onto store shelves and Xbox Live on Feb 22; Act now to reserve your copy of “Crackdown” and secure your invitation to the “Halo 3” multiplayer beta |
| New content for Gears of War coming this week Two new maps and a video available for download through Xbox Live Marketplace New downloadable content for the Xbox 360 exclusive “Gears of War" is on the way and what better way to celebrate the New Year than to meet friends new and old online and greet them with the sounds of a chainsaw? |
| Over one million players have experienced Capcom entertainment’s Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition Two Lost Planet Demos Downloaded Over One Million Times From Xbox Live® Capcom® today announced that the single-player and multiplayer demos of Lost Planet™: Extreme Condition, exclusively for Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft have been downloaded over one million times by the global Xbox community. |
| Newsflash: Gears of War Surpasses Two Million Redmond— A video game champion has been crowned! Gears of War® has made history by becoming the fastest-selling next-gen game of 2006 and the fastest-selling exclusive Xbox® game of all time. |
| Good Things Come in Threes I like to do a nice write-up when a new accessory hits shelves, but this time, there were just too many. Within the space of a few weeks in November, three new Xbox 360™accessories came out: the Xbox 360 Wireless | Headset, the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player, and the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel. |
| Newsflash: One Million Sold, Number One on Xbox Live As Gears of War® emerges throughout the world ahead of the holiday sales rush, the Xbox 360™ juggernaut has sold an impressive one million copies world-wide in just its first two weeks of release—elevating the game to the fastest-selling title of 2006 and fastest-selling Xbox 360 game of all time. |
| Troubleshooting for Unreadable Disc Troubleshooting: You receive the “This disc is unreadable” error message SYMPTOMS When you try to use any kind of disc in the Xbox 360 console, you receive the following error message: This disc is unreadable. |
| Newsflash: Halo Nation Prepares to Finish the Fight Redmond—On the fifth anniversary of the release of the landmark Xbox® video game Halo®, Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today celebrated the milestone by announcing an exclusive hands-on experience with Halo 3, one of the industry's most anticipated sequels. |
| Complete Dashboard Update Feature List New Features - HD 1080p video mode support over VGA and component cables.
- Xbox 360™ HD DVD Player support.
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| November 2006 Xbox Live Update Beginning the morning of Tuesday, October 31, you'll be able to download a free system update that provides more than 85 new features and enhancements, , including support for native 1080p games and movies, faster Arcade game list display times, and even more choices when it comes to video playback options. |
| Details on the November '06 Upgrade It seems like only yesterday that I was writing an article about the May 2006 update, and now it's time for another. The teams here at Xbox® have been hard at work bringing you some more sweet updates. We hope you like it! |