October, 2009

Sunday’s a big day. Starting at 3-5 P.M. ET, singer Henry Santos of the bachata band Aventura will be in our Game with Fame playing The Ballad of Gay Tony from Grand Theft Auto IV . Our Community Playdate features the same game which you can play with...

It’s a Call of Duty: World at War Double Experience Points weekend through November 1, and even better, the World at War Map Packs are half off. Find out more and get playing!

We’ve got lots of things happening on Xbox LIVE Friday, October 30. You can play with Rockstar who will be online having fun in their new add-on for Grand Theft Auto IV , The Ballad of Gay Tony , from 5-10 P.M. ET. Be sure to pick up the Gay Tony add...

The developers of Double Fine Productions, the folks who made the brilliant rock and roll game Brutal Legend , will play their game with Xbox LIVE Gold Members Wednesday, October 28, from 8-10 P.M. ET. This is YOUR chance to get that elusive Six Degrees...

He’s a Georgia gamer, a frequent tweeter (@thrallmind) and reviews potato chips on www.taterrater.com . Get to know ThrallMind! trixie360: What's the story behind your gamertag? ThrallMind: When Xbox LIVE came around and I had to chose a screen...

If you are a fan of Agatha Christie mysteries, or just a fan of traveling on someone else’s dime, you should definitely enter this sweepstakes (provided you are 18 years of age or older and a legal resident of the 50 United States and District of Columbia...

Next time you pop Gears of War 2 into your Xbox 360, you’ll find a welcome batch of enhancements and fixes, courtesy of the latest title update. Some of these can even be lifesaving, such as the ability to view friendly-planted grenades in Tac/Com. For...

The Deal of the Week available to Xbox LIVE Gold Members through November 1 is the fun Fable II Pub Games now going for only 400 MS Points, a 50% savings. Download the game now and get ready to visit Albion!

Sign up and play the good folks from the gaming website jggh.net in our Community Playdate Sunday, October 25. They’ll be playing Halo 3 from 8-11 PM ET. See you there!

I have to admit it I went into Panzer General: Allied Assault a skeptic. I was a big fan of the MS-DOS classic Panzer General, and when I heard that they were adding a card mechanic to a WW2 battle game, it seemed too different. Why use cards in an electronic...

We have two Game with Developers events running Friday, October 23. From 5-8 PM ET, play the team from Luxoflux in their game Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , and follow that up by mixing it up with the folks who made Borderlands from 6-9 PM ET....

Recently, we received a letter from a parent who wanted to spread the word that children with disabilities can play the Xbox 360 too. We here at the Community team were moved by the letter and asked to print it. What follows is one parent’s thoughts on...

The Xbox LIVE Arcade version of the popular Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers   just got its first expansion. After all, what fun is a collectable card game if you can’t add some new decks? Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers...

Hey cats and kittens, my maternity leave is over and I’m back at work in your Xbox Community. If you’ve tried to send me email at xlmail@microsoft.com in the past couple weeks you undoubtedly noticed that it is messed up. Having over 10,000 unread messages...

He’s a Metallica fan who doesn’t have a lot good to say about the Waffle House. Say hello to EGC YODA EF . KP: What’s the story behind your Gamertag? EGC YODA EF: I grew up in a small neighborhood in Ohio. Unfortunately at the time I was very short. All...

Halloween is almost here, and Xbox.com has a ghoulishly fun sweepstakes for you to enter. “Trick or Treat!” Download the free Shocktober gamerpic, then download selected game add-ons, Arcade games, TV episodes or movies, or just play an Xbox 360 multiplayer...

Matt Stone, the co-creator of South Park, will be on Xbox LIVE today with Christopher “Crispy” Brion and Todd Benson of South Park Digital Studios playing their recently released Xbox LIVE Arcade game. C’mon down to South Park. They’ll be playing South...

This week, Xbox LIVE Gold Members can acquire the Resident Evil 5 Versus Mode game add-on for only 240 MS Points, a 40% savings. It pays to Go Gold !

This weekend the Fight Like a Girl tournament raised over $5,000 (and counting) for Breast and Cervical Cancers, with participants from around the world competing in Free For All, 2v2 and 4v4 tournaments. Punch Cancer in the face! We setup onsite...

The good folks from the Fanboygaming.com website will play Halo 3: ODST with Xbox LIVE Gold Members on October 18 from 8-11 PM ET. Join us !

One of the great joys of Xbox LIVE Arcade is the originality of so many of the games there. Take this week’s release, Axel & Pixel , developed by Silver Wish Games. This 2D title combines digitized images and hand-drawn art to create a bizarre, cool...

You better fight like a girl in the Fight Like A Girl (FLAG) Halo 3 2009 charity tournament. This annual event is held October 17-18 in order to raise money for breast and cervical cancer research. Master Chief says, “Sign up!” Check out the FLAG page...

The band Breaking Benjamin will be on Xbox LIVE playing Call of Duty 4 with Gold Members. Event starts 7 P.M. ET. Be there!

Meet TATEone , a newlywed systems analyst who’s been around since the olden days of the Xbox LIVE Beta. KP: What’s the story behind your Gamertag? TATEone: TATE was the tag I used for doing graffiti early on, and eventually I added “one” at the end but...

There are three great new events running now, and all have super-cool prizes. Check out the South Park Download & Win where you could score a custom South Park Xbox 360. You know what Brian Boitano would do, he’d sign up! That sweepstakes ends October...