Eager to get your hands on the New Xbox Experience? Well, now you can..at the cost of your online gaming for week.
Late last week, the service update began to appear on various torrent sites with some users already putting it on their consoles with a USB cable. Once you do that, though, your console will [...]

Take note: Monday, September 29th, you won’t have access to Xbox Live. Sorry, that’s just how things are. Of course, it will all be worth it since this is obviously for the New Xbox Experience, right?
Actually, no, no it’s not. In fact, when it comes back Tuesday (though these things have the tendancy to take [...]

Something happened to Samurai Shodown on the Live Arcade. When it was announced by Major Nelson as one of the games for this week, he listed it at 400 MS Points. However, astute readers pointed out that the Xbox.com page for the game listed it at 800. Major Nelson/Larry Hyrb replied in the comments with:
“Yea…I [...]

If you still haven’t recovered from the announcement of the new dashboard and the lack of themes in all the pics that keep showing up, you can breathe again. Major Nelson has come to the rescue and not only confirmed that yes, they will work, but provided pics on how they show up. They won’t [...]

Epic. That’s the only word to describe this week’s release on the Live Arcade. It’s something gamers have been waiting for for ages, possibly since the dawn of the industry. Nothing can come close to the experience that will be Coffeetime Crosswords.
Actually, no. Scratch that. Microsoft is trying to force you into paying $10 (800 [...]

Gamers will remember 9-9-99 as the day Namco’s first sequel to Soul Blade released (the Dreamcast launched with it, but for a while, it was purely a Soul Calibur machine). Now, Live Arcade owners can look forward to paying a measly $10 for this classic that still holds up today. Everything remains intact, from the [...]

Xbox Live’s Major Nelson announced two more additions to the Xbox Originals lineup on his blog this afternoon.
“In Guilty Gear X2 #Reload, a newly discovered form of energy has been used to create devastating bio-weapons from fused human and animal DNA. Known as the Gears, they are now intelligent, self-aware creatures set loose upon the [...]