Free: Xbox Live Arcade Game
I just read a post on Major Nelson's website (it's also on the official website) that there will be a free XBLA game for all Xbox Live users (Gold & Silver), as a sort of apology for the, frankly, appalling performance of Xbox Live over the Christmas Period.
I'll put up another post when I find out what it is and when you can get it 
Until then, I'm just hoping it doesn't go down (again), because I'll be very annoyed, along with a lot of others I'd imagine.
Xbox Live 3rd Jan 2008
After almost a week of Xbox Live being down, and just generally not working, it seems that the problems are almost all fixed. I had trouble signing in to the Xbox website last night, and in finding a game of Call Of Duty 4, but in the end perseverance paid off, and I managed to do both
Trouble is that it was still slow, so I'm hoping that it'll all be sorted by the weekend!
Another Xbox Live Update
It seems that Xbox Live is still down, yesterday/this morning I noticed it was down from about 5PM until at least 3AM (G.M.T). I can't say why this is, but I can say that it's to do with Call Of Duty 4, because I can't play that online during that time at all. I can play other games online (Forza 2, Guitar Hero 3) just not COD4.
I'm hoping Microsoft get this fixed soon, because if they don't I'll be calling them to give me an extra month of Xbox Live for free...if it continues I'd like to think some of you would do the same
Update On Xbox Live
It seem's that Microsoft are aware of this issue, which is good. However I noticed last night (December 29th) my Xbox was doing the same as the 28th!
Basically I turn the Xbox on, sign in, and it tells me how many friends are online then I just get the loading ring, and if I wait long enough it tells me to sign into Xbox Live. The weird thing is that if I put a game in, it signs me into Xbox Live no problems.
I think this is something to do with Call Of Duty 4:MW because I couldn't play that online at all last night, so for the last 2 nights I've been racing on Forza Motorsport 2. If anybody else is having these exact same issues I'd be interested to know, as it only seems to happen around 9PM G.M.T until about 2AM.
And if you want to know who I am on Xbox Live, check the about page, I've just added my GamerCard! And don't forget that comments are always welcome...unless you're spamming me
Xbox Live Down?
Currently trying to sign into Xbox Live doesn't seem to work, either on the console or through the Xbox Website. However, I figured I'd just pop Assassin's Creed in, and play that for a while, and sure enough, it signs me into Xbox Live.
I hope the haven't broke the dashboard...if they have, they'll be in some deep water.
Anyway, never mind! More killing and free-running to do!
Xbox Repair
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, my Xbox 360 died on me the other day.
I emailed Microsoft support, and they then emailed me a UPS label to print, but based on the fact it's not my fault it's broken, I figured "why should I print the label?!" So I instead phoned Xbox customer support.
They told me that I would get the label sent to my home address, however that was around 3-5 days ago, and UPS are infinitely better than the Royal Mail, so I knew there was something up there.
I've just got off the phone with Xbox support again, and told them to send me the label via email, because I don't seem to get post anymore, so I'll print the label at Uni, and then phone UPS.
R.I.P Dear Friend
Ok so nobody I know has died, let me just get that out of the way and make it perfectly clear
My Xbox 360 got the Red Ring Of Death just now, I am sad, it's outlasted a lot of people's consoles that I know. I got it in August 2006, and today 28 October 2007, it has died.
So I filled in a form thingy to get it fixed on the Microsoft website, which I'm guessing means it'll take about 3-6 weeks to get sorted (so it should work for Christmas!!).
Anyway that's all, thought I'd make a big deal out of it, because now I have nothing to distract me as much.
Viva Piñata
Ok so I went into town earlier because I had a 2 hour break at Uni, and I had a look in Game, as you do.
I ended up walking out with Viva Piñata, and it does look quite good, and I enjoyed the demo, I'll admit that. Plus it was only £13 so that's why I bought it, I'll probably do another post letting you all know what I think when I've played it some more.
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