Microsoft Offers RRoD Patch For Xbox360 - Only 1,200 MS Points

Massouken on September 17th, 2008

360 owners rejoice! Microsoft has finally come up with a way to prevent the dreaded Red Ring of Death from bricking your beloved console. That’s right - no more sending your system to Washington in a Microsoft-brand cardboard coffin and waiting 6 to 8 weeks curled up in fetal position in front of the TV for its return. For a meager 1,200 MS points (that’s $15), you will be able to download a patch that protects your 360 indefinitely. But wait…there’s more!

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Xbox Live Silver Members Allowed To Suckle At The Golden Teat For Awhile

B Miggs on July 29th, 2008

Calling all gamers out there who have no problem spending hundreds of dollars on a video game console but can’t justify the $50 a year Xbox Live subscription to make the most of it - your golden cow nipples have arrived. Microsoft has slyly let loose the news that you cheap-ass Silver members can play online for free with the Gold guys in select games before your ethernet cable turns back into a pumpkin.

Grab your friends, line up your poor, dry mouths at the shiny gates of milky mammilla, and extract every last droplet until this fall when its back to the homeless shelter with no shoes for you. Now stop bumming quarters for the downtown peep show booth and go kick some Gold ass! Never mind that they’re infinitely more obsessed and experienced by now - you need a few more lessons in humility.

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The 10 Commandments of Xbox Live

B Miggs on May 27th, 2008

And on the 7th day after getting their test console back from the repair shop, Microsoft created the Xbox360, a powerful behemoth in the online console gaming scene. But with the power of X comes great responsibility, and thus the 10 Commandments of Xbox Live were created. It is of utmost importance that one follows these rules, as they are the codification that binds our gamertags in joyous, prosperous gaming unison.

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Top 5 Tips To Meeting Girls On Xbox Live

the -minus world on March 25th, 2008

Before I begin, I’d like to let you know that I’ve gotten laid by using Xbox Live a record of 23 times in the last 3 months (achievement unlocked) and I’m here to show you the secrets Microsoft doesn’t want you to know. I could just be saying that, and I could just be making this up, but can you afford to pass this up? If your hand is as cramped as mine was before I bought a Gold Live membership, well then NO YOU CAN’T!!!

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