May, 2009

What To Do This Weekend: Play The10k.com site members in Call of Duty: World at War on May 31 , and be sure to sign up for The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Halo 3 Play & Win Sweepstakes . Oh, and get ready for E3! Next week is going to be CRAZY , so...

Get ready to lace up your gloves and dish out a beating in EA's Fight Night Round 4 demo, available now for download exclusively for Xbox LIVE Gold members from May 28th-June 4th. Fight as either Ricky Hatton or Manny Pacquiao in a three round bout...

We’re celebrating the release of the Halo Wars game add-on, Strategic Options , with 3 solid days of RTS action. Xbox LIVE Gold members can game with Robot Entertainment, founders of Ensemble Studios, tonight from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. Eastern. Look for these...

You may have noticed that the blog seems a little quiet lately. That's because we're all heads-down getting Xbox.com and Xbox LIVE ready for the big announcements at the show next Monday. It's too early to spill any beans just yet, but you'll definitely...

What To Do This Weekend: 1) Celebrate Memorial Day with us in our Memorial Day LIVE Weekend and enter the Battlestations: Pacific sweepstakes; 2) Play WeTheGamerz in our Community Playdate ; 3) Win great prizes in the Drag Me To Hell sweepstakes with...

In honor of Memorial Day (It's Monday!) KP and I put our noggins together to come up with a list of WWII flicks that both meet our rigorous film critic standards PLUS are available to watch on your Xbox 360 via Netflix. Here's the list. Casablanca...

The beauty of UFC 2009: Undisputed is the myriad paths to brutal victory it offers. From flash KOs with stand up strikes to merciless ground and pound, face-breaking knees from the clinch and cringe-worthy submissions that find you nearly ripping a limb...

Do your part this weekend to support our soldiers. Donate some games, contribute money, or just volunteer to help at veterans' organizations in your community. Cheap Ass Gamer Donate used (or new) games and game systems to our soldiers in Iraq. ...

Every month here at Xbox.com we give you a chance to game with some of the most beautiful and deadly gamers in the world, the Frag Dolls. On May 29, we’ll be playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare from 9:00 to 11:00 P.M. Eastern (6-8 Pacific). Cozy up...

Thursday night, the band Silversun Pickups took time to play Guitar Hero: World Tour with some Xbox LIVE members. Here's what a few of the lucky gamers had to say: "It was great to play with the Silversun Pickups! I hope to do it again sometime! Rock...

Lots of great things to check out over the weekend. Gold members can get the Xbox LIVE Arcade game Brain Challenge for 50% off , only 400 MS Points over the weekend . You may have heard of a very cool match-four game called Gel: Set & Match...

Don't miss Monday's "Oprah" show for the big finale of "Oprah's Search for the World's Smartest and Most Talented Kids"! This special episode of the "Oprah" show is sponsored by Xbox. Featuring country superstar Taylor Swift, music's newest sensation...

We were visited this week by the developers of Fight Night Round 4 , who brought along a build of the game gave us a guided tour through the new features coming to the series. Producer Michael Mahar put on a clinic in the ring, and then sat down to talk...

What's better than a Frosty this summer? Winning 1600 MS Points from Wendy's and Xbox. Here's how to do it: 1. Download the Wendy's Gamer Picture. 2. That's it! For reals! All the deets and official rules

You can be among the first to play the new Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection this Friday, May 15 from 8:00 to 11:00 P.M. Pacific time. Xbox LIVE will be hosting a First to Play event at the Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall...

More cool stuff to check out over the weekend. Here's what we've got: Gold members can score 33% off the Xbox Original Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex . Get it now for only 800 MS Points in our Deal of the Week . This Tuesday, May...

One of the Xbox LIVE Gold advantages is that we get our game demos a week early, and with the Xbox LIVE Marketplace scoring exclusive demos like nobody’s business, that’s one hell of a bonus. This week I’ve run through the X-Men Origins: Wolverine demo...

I love the independently-developed Community Games on Xbox 360. Sure, there's always the silly programmer's test with crappy graphics but if you download and try each game on the service like I do, you're going to find quite a few gems. And one of these...

Operation Campus Migration has drawn to a close, with only some minor fallout left to deal with. We're in a new building, settling into our respective areas. Trixie has done an admirable job of transplanting her disaster area to the new building and along...

It's been another great week on Xbox.com. Here's what we've done: Gold members can get the LIVE 365 subscription for NBA Live 09 for only 560 points this weekend, a 30% savings . Happy Mother's Day! We have gift wish lists from some of the Moms...

Some of you may have heard that today is our team's last day on the Millennium campus. I've been here for 7 years, Major for 5 1/2 or so. The new campus, Studios West (or Robbieland, as I like to call it after our illustrious President Robbie Bach) is...