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You’ve played Xbox 360 games with the millions of gamers on Xbox LIVE. You’ve chatted, shared, and dominated in games of all kinds. But what if those millions could be playing your game? Better still – what if you were getting paid for it? Read more in my post about it over here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
In a previous post I originally announced that two South African bands were in the top rated tracks list in the Xbox Soundtracks competition run by Microsoft and Universal Music. Today it was announced in a press release that the local Johannesburg based band MadLove had been crowned as the South Africa winner for the Xbox Soundtracks competition. MadLove’s Angel’s Fall track for Tomb Raider was ranked as the best track by visitors to the contest site. For the past month thousands of musicians and...
Microsoft EMEA is running a worldwide competition to discover the next-generation of music-makers through an initiative called Xbox Soundtracks . The competition has reached the voting stage and the community is called to action to vote on the submissions. The winner of the competition will get the chance to record their soundtrack professionally with the Universal Music team. Looking at the top rated tracks list reveals two South African bands, Gently Scar'd and MadLove, in the top 3. Wow! Currently...
Microsoft Game Studios knows how to reward gamers with downloadable content. Today sees the release of not only a free title update to improve the gameplay, a free add-on pack called the Free-For-All Pack but they also added the Gettin' Busy Bonus Pack for 800 Microsoft points. I particularly like the sound of new vehicles and weapons but I'm sure most gamers will agree, the hidden orbs are a mission to find. So now the orb sound comes into range sooner when you have 50% and then 20% remaining...
One result of all the commotion around the Xbox 360 Dashboard update and the new content control was an urgent push to get the draft of an online petition to Microsoft South Africa requesting clarity on Xbox LIVE in South Africa out the door earlier. And I must say that it is a great effort. The South African gaming community is getting behind the online petition which I encourage every South African Xbox supporter to sign. So far there are almost 500 signatures and more being added daily. There...
Over the last couple of days the local Xbox 360 community has been a bit agitated regarding the Dashboard software update that has gone live today. The update adds a whole bunch of cool new features like integration with the Windows Live Messenger (or MSN Messenger for those behind the times) network so you can now chat with your buddies from your console as well. Last week the Microsoft Games Global Marketing team blogged about the new Xbox 360 Marketplace territory controls being strengthened....
The Microsoft Community Manager for Xbox.com known as AceyBongos has made an interesting post today regarding the new content controls put in place for Xbox Live Marketplace. Currently South Africa doesn't have official access to the Xbox LIVE service as it hasn't been launched yet locally so a lot of us signed up for access through the UK or US services. Its a common practice and it works well as we get access to the amazing Xbox LIVE network and the unlimited gaming and social networking...
Often I hear the cries from Xbox LIVE members here in South Africa. Microsoft releases an update to the Xbox 360 firmware (aka the Dashboard et al) and you are prompted to download it over the often horrendous South African international bandwidth. I was quite impressed to find the following blog post making life a lot easier. Turns out the firmware is just over 6mb compressed, not too bad for the average user and I'm sure it will download faster than from the console itself. Its also a cool...
With the local launch of the Xbox 360 just around the corner (29th of September) a lot of members of the local Xbox 360 community have been wondering when, if at all, Microsoft will be launching a local Xbox Live service. Currently early adopters that have imported consoles, including local Microsoft employees, have to be registered with an overseas address in order to become an Xbox Live member - a rather tedious step in the process. However I heard a rumour twice today from two different sources...