For all you Duke Nukem fans out there, the Forever demo of the game is now available on Xbox Live and Steam (if you’re a Gold member that is). More »

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An update on Rockstar’s newswire announces a new update for L.A. Noire. Downloadable for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, you’ll see the update when you sign into the PSN or Xbox Live. More »

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The ongoing events of LulzSec have moved onto Microsoft now. With their recent announcement and “release” of 62,000 e-mail address and password combinations that supposedly belong to Twitter, PayPal, Facebook and Xbox Live accounts. But it seems as though it was a dud since all four companies are reporting nothing breached and it doesn’t seem like any of the email/password comibinations have significantly gone through. More »

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Seems like confirmation has come sooner than expected. With yesterday’s leaked image of the third Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack, Activision has gone ahead and officially announced that “Annihilation” will launch on June 28. More »

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In PowerUp Heroes, you can take your XBOX Live avatar and dress it up as a superhero. Like fighting games, there are different moves and combos that can be used to win fights. However, in this game, you use the Kinect to use the attacks. More »

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From Microsoft themselves, Windows 8 is expected to integrate Xbox Live into its offered services on the new operating system for the PC. More »

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Users over Xbox Live are currently going through problems accessing the Xbox Live Marketplace on Xbox 360 as well as PC. Various people have spoke out about the fact that Xbox 360 consoles are having trouble displaying content. More »

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If you’ve never played Halo Reach before, then you’ve missed out on ever so much. After several months on from the game’s release, a single and multiplayers demo for Bungie’s last Halo Game is now onto Xbox Live. More »

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Microsoft is offering a small number of Xbox 360 owners replacement consoles and a free year of Xbox Live to serve as compensation for a firmware glitch. According to Kotaku, some customers have received emails noticing them that they can trade in their defective consoles in return for an upgrade. More »

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A verified email was sent to Xbox Live customer support claiming that a recent update provided to Xbox LIVE beta testers is preventing “a very small number of Xbox 360 owners from playing retail discs.” More »

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People who accessed Xbox Live for free over the weekend were not only used to experience the online service, but to also be involved in an attempt by Microsoft to set a bizarre world records. You wouldn’t believe what it was. More »

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Do you enjoy the Xbox Live and free-to-play games? Well, who doesn’t? There’s been a rumor swirling out and about claiming that we should be expecting some Xbox Live free-to-play games from Microsoft. This also means that players have the ability to buy virtual possessions “such as currency, weapons and clothes.” If you’re familiar with MafiaWars and CityVille from Facebook, this should all ring a bell. This whole concept just might blow up because we’ve got Electronic Arts publishers working on this with games like Battlefield Play4Free. It’s a shame that’s it’s a rumor as of now but let’s hope it’s true! More »

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Stephen Toulouse, known to many as Stepto, is Microsoft’s director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live. So he is the main man going on the service, which makes him a prime target for hackers. More »

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If you’re an Xbox Live member and you reside in the U.S., you have a chance at testing Microsoft’s new system for the Xbox 360. You have a decent chance at participating because they’re looking for “multiple thousands” of you gamers. It’s pretty neat because they’ll be sending you actual products from their new system just to hear what you have to say about it. Products include a copy of Halo Reach and other things that they’re keeping mum about. More »

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Many are curious about the future of gaming, especially with Microsoft’s new video on how it sees the future of its Windows Gaming Experience platform, using Xbox Live. The video focuses in on four different concepts and experiences: social, avatars, search, and transaction. Social concentrates on integrating Facebook games; avatars focus on customizing characters with a virtual wardrobe; search emphasizes on the simplicity of finding and joining games and apps through Bing and finally, transaction delivers digital content with ease. More »

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I believe that most people at one point in their lives have played a video game just to relax and have some fun. However it isn’t every day that through a video game you can potentially save an persons life as a fourteen year old boy from Canada did. More »

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Microsoft as part of their ongoing commitment to improve Xbox Live, have created a new program called Xbox Live Labs. The program is optional and is designed to improve network performances and will run a number of network tests from your console to Xbox Live. These results are solely for the purpose of testing and improving the service. More »

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Why spend more than you have to? In other words, why settle for Microsoft instead of Walmart? Instead of paying for the 60$ yearly Xbox Live Gold subscription, you can head to Walmart and save about 15$ and pay $44.96 instead. It’s a win-win and to top it off, you can spend the remainders on the Halo: Reach or Fable III which have also been discounted! Both of these games are discounted to $29.96. The sale started yesterday and will continue until the 26th of February. More »

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A teenager living in Maryland, US, has been arrested for hijacking an Xbox Live account, sending prank messages to over 100 gamers with threats of brining a gun to school to shoot pupils. This anonymous child acquired the login details via unauthorised transaction via a website. More »

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Xbox Live is a world-class online gaming service, as we all know. It’s just growing in stature. I can reveal that you are able to reap even more rewards with Xbox Live now. Microsoft has launched a “Refer a friend” programme for Xbox Live. This is where you are rewarded for referring friends by Gamertag to nab existing Gold member tokens, which can be used to redeem one of these 4 rewards: More »

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