Xbox Live is 5ive detailed– Xbox Originals on 4 Dec, free XBLA title tomorrow
Wednesday 14 Nov 2007
Tomorrow Xbox Live will celebrate its fifth anniversary. The latest figures reveal that over 8 million members are engaging in Xbox Live and Microsoft has decided to reward them by offering the Xbox Live Arcade strategy game Carcassone for free for 48 hours, between 12:01 AM PDT on the 15th of November and 11:59 PM PDT on the 16th of November. And just because Bill Gates has his party hat on, every active member who joined Xbox Live in 2002 will be rewarded with 500 free Microsoft Points.
For more on how to master strategy in the medieval world, head over to our earlier discussion on Carcassone.
Xbox Originals
And just to bring you up to speed, from the 4th of December Santa Claus will be offering all Xbox Live members a free system update including new features and enhancements. Most notable among the offerings is the launch of the Xbox Originals which, for the first time, consumers can download and own full Xbox games including Halo, Psychonauts, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge and Fable. The games cost 1200 Microsoft Points and do not require a disk.
“The king of the online arena”
“In just five short years Xbox LIVE has revolutionized the way friends and family have fun in the living room,” said John Schappert, corporate vice president of LIVE, software and services at Microsoft. “On its fifth birthday, Xbox LIVE truly is the place for hanging out with friends and enjoying downloadable TV shows, movies, videos, game add-ons, and now downloadable Xbox games on demand.”
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