Did anyone else get pissed off trying to sign into Xbox Live over the Holidays? It was so frustrating have time off work to stare at a non-functional xbox and not play new games!
Turns out that Microsoft actually felt sorry for users and is making a peace offering. Check this out:
Dear Xbox LIVE Members:
During
this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE
records. This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE
in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the
single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service.
As
a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you
experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break. While
the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are
disappointed in our performance. I would like to take this moment to
thank you each and every one of you for your patience and understanding
as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a
stable state.
At the same time we would like to offer a token
of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for
the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday
period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the
world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to
download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the
specific details of this offer with you.
Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!
Sincerely,
Marc Whitten
General Manager, Xbox LIVE
Pretty sweet eh? What’s a good Arcade game to grab?
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A four-year-old from Fleetwood, Lancashire, has peed on his older brother’s console in what may be the ultimate bad Wii joke. Tot Ellis Emsley was apparently upset as his brother played with his new Christmas gift and ignored him, reports Metro.
The father of the boys, Darren Emsley, had coughed up ?250 for the console for six-year-old Danny’s Christmas present. However, his little brother wasn’t as overjoyed at the addition to the household, and became jealous of the console.
The boy’s mother, Kerry, explained, “It seems Ellis got fed up with Danny being obsessed with the Wii and refusing to play with him. He was told it was his turn on the Wii next, but he took it a bit too literally and used his secret weapon to sabotage the machine.”
The Wii is now, unsurprisingly, not working. Meanwhile, Darren is weighing up the chances of the ‘little accident’ being covered by their home contents insurance. He mused, “It must surely be counted as a leak.”
Article via GameSpot: http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php
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John Madden called Colts Darrell Reid’s Bombing the biggest hit he’d ever seen in his life, and Madden has obviously seen tons of NFL hits. Nothing like having a 6-2, 288 pound freight train running
down hill right at you. The second impressive thing about this
hit is that Chris Henry’s head didn’t pop clean off. He got right up and walked away like it was nothing.
Did any of you catch that hit? Holy crap! I almost came out of my seat when I seen the Reid Bombing. I know that it if that was me, I would STILL be laying there. Autopsy would show that my bones instantly turned to powder and every meal that I ate this past year would be resting in my underwear.
For those of you that don’t know who Darrell Reid is, check out his personal website here and also his profile over at Colts.com.
And now for the goodstuff. Check out the Reid Bombing clip…
Pardon me while I add this event to my library of nightmare content.
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