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The Masters tournament is over and congratulations to Charl Schwartzel who concluded a thrilling 72 holes with four straight birdies. Think you can play as well as the South African? Here’s your chance. Our Game with Developers event is tonight, April...

Developers from Crytek, creators of the popular shooter Crysis 2 , will be on Xbox LIVE Saturday, April 9, to play their game with Xbox LIVE Gold members. They’ll play online from 5-7 PM ET, so check out their gamertags and play the game with the developers...

The Xbox Elite Tweet Fleet, the Xbox support team that answers your questions via Twitter, will be on Xbox LIVE Friday, April 8 for a Community Playdate. They’ll play Halo: Reach from 8-11 PM ET so check out their gamertags and log in for some fun with...

Celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson wants you to get fit and you could even win a trip to Los Angeles while shaving off the pounds! There are two sweepstakes in play: a Download and Win, and an Achieve and Win Sweepstakes with different prizes. All you...

He’s a long time Xbox LIVE player, a big fan of the Halo series, and likes both the quirky ilomilo game and the equally quirky Carrie Underwood. Have a sit-down with our Gamer Spotlight of the week, Xsiner!

From now through April 4, do some EXTREME SHOPPING on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Twenty games, avatar accessories and game add-ons are offered at deep discounts. So if you’ve been saving your points, now is a great time to get that game or add-on you need...

Members of the jggh Games website will be on Xbox LIVE April 1 to play Xbox LIVE Gold members in a Community Playdate . They’ll be playing Halo: Reach from 8-11 PM ET so check out their gamertags and join in on the fun!

Every week, Xbox LIVE Arcade features great new games. For instance, this week it’s Rush’N Attack Ex-Patriot , Islands of WAKFU , and Strania . You can always download the free demo, then use your Microsoft Points account to download and play the full...

Developers from Electronic Arts will be on Xbox LIVE today March 29 , to play their game Fight Night Champion , with Xbox LIVE Gold members. They’ll be stepping into the ring from 7-9 PM ET so do a few practice jabs, check out their gamertags , and see...

Denny Atkin takes a look at LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars and deems it one of the best LEGO games ever. Pretty high praise. See what he likes about the game in his hands-on commentary .

Ok, so he might have a thing about Sarah Michelle Gellar and Buffy, and he inexplicably dislikes Toad-in-the-Hole but he loves Midtown Madness, so he can’t be all bad! :) Visit with our Gamer Spotlight this week, UK gamer EDDS!

The team from the Grifball Hub website will be on Xbox LIVE Friday, March 25 to play Xbox LIVE Gold members in (I’m guessing here) Grifball in Halo: Reach . They’ll play 8-11 PM ET so check out their gamertags and join in on the fun!

Original Xbox hit titles are now on sale through Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Some great games have now been reduced to only 800 Microsoft Points, 1/3 off the normal rate. This is your chance to download and play BLACK , Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (one of...

He wants to be Batman, or maybe Commander Shepard, would love to have toured with The Beatles, and name-checks the beautiful Lake Wallenpaupack in Pennsylvania. Say hello to POSEIDON522 !

Members of the Canadian gaming website GameFocus will be on Xbox LIVE Friday, March 18 to play Xbox LIVE Gold members in the game Homefront. They’ll be playing from 8-11 PM ET and this is your chance to have fun and talk to people who care about games...

The latest game to release in this year’s Arcade House Party is Full House Poker for Xbox LIVE Arcade. Now you can go all-in, check, raise, or fold with a collection of canny A.I. opponents or go online and play poker with all your Xbox LIVE friends....

Meet our latest Gamer Spotlight, PMS Stargirl ! She’s a community manager for the PMS Halo clan and a telco admin for a winery in Napa Valley. Game on!

Our Community Playdate this Friday, March 11 is with the group from Ironworks Gaming Crew . They’ll be online from 8-11 PM ET playing Call of Duty: Black Ops . Check out their gamertags and join in on the fun!

With Kinect for Xbox 360 being officially the fastest-selling consumer electronic device in history (not according to us, but to the Guinness Book of World Records) and with 10 million already being sold , you know that Kinect Games are going to have...

Tomorrow, March 9, will see the debut of Xbox LIVE Arcade game Torchlight, a fun and quick-paced role-playing game that takes on the Diablo-style game mechanic of players collecting lots and lots of different kinds of loot, then micro-managing their character...

This may be just about the coolest thing ever. FigurePrints in conjunction with Xbox LIVE now makes it possible to get a 3-D figurine made of your very own Xbox avatar! Sign me up please. These beautiful little figures are the perfect gaming accessory...

It’s true! You can now unleash your Xbox LIVE avatar and get a Fathead (those giant stickers that can go on any wall surface, and you can peel them off and re-use them elsewhere with no residue). The service is now ready to go. Turn your avatar into a...

Rockstar game developers visit Xbox LIVE today, March 4 , to play Xbox LIVE Gold members in their epic Western saga Red Dead Redemption . They’ll be online from 4-7 PM ET so check out their gamertags and ride the range with the folks from Rockstar!

Our Community Playdate for March 4 will be with members of The Married Gamers website. They’ll be on Xbox LIVE from 8-11 PM ET playing Left 4 Dead 2 . Check out their gamertags then hop online and meet members of the gaming community!