Bad news if you’ve been rocking Borderlands or Forza 3 on Xbox Live. These games haven’t been released yet, and Microsoft is going to permanently ban anyone caught pirating these games. “You know, when you play a pre-release title on LIVE when I know you
2K Games announced the first DLC for upcoming RPG shooter Borderlands, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned. Following on the popular zombie movement, Dr. Ned is tasked with keeping the workers of Jakobs Cove alive, and does his job a little too well. Zombies and
Grand Theft Auto IV is now available for download through Xbox 360’s Live Marketplace Games on Demand service. Xbox 360 owners with net-connected boxes can download the 7GB game for $29.99. For the same $30 price tag users can purchase the game from retailers, and
Microsoft announced that greatness had been earned by Grand Theft Auto 4, Left 4 Dead, and others, and that they will join the Platinum Hits collection. The games will be rebraned and repriced, though it is not known at this time what the prices will
You could be one large fry or Angus burger away from being an Xbox 360 owner. McDonald’s Monopoly starts today, kicking off a month of Monopoly piece collecting. Besides cash prizes and gift cards (and a free small fry) instant win tickets from the new
Xbox 360 owners wishing for Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm on their Dashboard might get the chance to see what’s in store for them with a beta of the new Dashboard update available sometime this month. Microsoft announced the update at E3 09, promising a 2009
Halo 3 ODST has sold 2 million copies in its first 24 hours. Early this week preorders for the game stood at 1.35 million in the Americas (which was lower than Halo 3’s 1.95 million), and first day sales totaled to 1.5 million in the
Netflix account holders can currently take advantage of an exclusive deal between Xbox and Netflix to stream movies through their Xbox 360 console. That may change in the future. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told Reuters, “Eventually we want to be on all the game consoles,
Left 4 Dead 2 has been denied classification in Australia, essentially banning the game. Australia’s highest video game rating is M 15+ and anything that would meet criteria beyond that cannot be sold or demonstrated. It seems the gorey nature of the game is the
The controversial Shadow Complex was released on Xbox Live in August, and sanctions have already been decided for those who cheat. Players verified as having cheated will be removed from leaderboards (though there is no word on what a “verified cheater” entails). These players will