Next Tuesday, the wait for Halo: Reach is over. Unless you’re playing it now, of course. Leading up to launch, Microsoft is going Halo crazy over Xbox LIVE, with a week’s worth of festivities, new content, free items and more. Hit up the game’s section of LIVE Marketplace for more. September 7th – Day 7: [...]

Microsoft didn’t foresee any scenario where Xbox LIVE would increase in price in 2009, but 2010 is a whole different ballgame. And so it is that the cost of Gold subscription is being hiked up by $10 per year beginning this fall, adding ESPN, Video Kinect and support for 2011′s Hulu Plus. For all of [...]

Xbox LIVE Marketplace is the destination for downloadable content over the next month, it seems. Microsoft has a bevy of new XBLA games, DLC, festivities and more in the wings, and it’s all been wrapped up nicely for your viewing pleasure. Xbox LIVE Arcade: – August 31: Dead Rising 2: Case Zero (Capcom) – 400 [...]

Xbox LIVE’s Family Plan isn’t the only change coming to the online service this fall. Microsoft confirmed what we’ve been suspecting and hearing scuttlebut about for months: after 8 years, subscription prices are moving on up. Starting on November 1st in North America, the cost of a Gold membership will increase from $49.99 per year [...]

This fall, Xbox 360′s ever hip Avatars will transform into Avatars 2.0, becoming more “realistically proportioned.” If you’ve been keeping up with all of the Kinect media, you may have noticed what the 360 mascots would eventually resemble in some of the most recent screens for Kinect Sports, Rare’s Wii Sports clone. They also made [...]

It’s a rarity to use my Xbox LIVE headset these days, not just because I’ve nearly had it with multiplayer, but you can hardly ever hear or understand people on the other end. And when you can, you don’t want to. Microsoft are looking into this issue, though, and will be improving the sound quality [...]

Frequenters of Amazon.com’s handy Xbox LIVE Marketplace section are in for a bit of disappointment: the store is no more. Microsoft and Amazon entered into a partnership last year that allowed the online retailer to sell download codes for XBLA titles, using real money, letting you skirt the dreaded “I have no/I hate using Microsoft [...]

Another big announcement out of Gamescom by Microsoft, Windows Phone 7, launching this fall, is getting a slew of Xbox LIVE-enabled titles before year’s end. The first wave of software heading to the new mobile Games Hub ranges from the likes of a 3D Brickbreaker, to an all-new Crackdown adventure, to a mobile Halo Waypoint [...]

A new month brings a new shipment of digital wares directly to your living room, via Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Over the next four weeks look for the final two Summer of Arcade releases, additional Avatar gear, an epic Dragon Age week of deals, new Games on Demand like Too Human, and some fresh DLC for [...]