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    Xbox Live Gold subscription cost going up Nov. 1

    Starting November 1, the price for a 1-year Xbox Live Gold membership will be $59.99, $10 more than the current price. If you have an automatic renewal that will kick in after that date, it will renew at the new price.  The $10 price increase...

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    Microsoft Avatars get a makeover

    Our Xbox 360 dashboard selves will change slightly in the coming months. The cartoonish, squat proportions of the current avatars are not working well with the hand/eye coordination that Kinect will require, so Nick Burton, senior programmer at Rare (avatar creators), says they’re going with...

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    Pre-Order Fable 3 and make your own NPC (to do with as you please).

    You can access the NPC maker with an XBox Live Gold account to experiment, and then pre-order the game and you’ll get a code that allows you to import a character of your very own design. You’ll be able to do whatever you want with...

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    Save Carmine! Or must he die?

    Starting July 29, Epic and Microsoft are giving gamers and fans a chance to decide the fate of one Clayton Carmine in the upcoming Gears of War 3 (out April 5, 2011).  They’ll be selling the above shirts in real life at the NECA booth...

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  • Threats on Xbox Live lead to Texas teen’s arrest.

    Threats on Xbox Live lead to Texas teen’s arrest.

    While playing Modern Warfare 2, a Texas teenager told his Canadian party that he was going to take a few guns to school, that he would get from a Marine friend, and shoot a pregnant girl and his best friend. He also said “that because...

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  • The AVP demo is the popular girl at school.

    The AVP demo is the popular girl at school.

    The AVP demo hit 14,000 downloads on Xbox Live over this past weekend, and has a rating of 4.5/5. I may not be a big fan of it, but I can admit that it’s fun. There was a bug in the PS3 version of the...

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  • Why I prefer to be a backseat player on Xbox Live

    Why I prefer to be a backseat player on Xbox Live

    The AVP multiplayer demo on Xbox Live is really, really fun–for everyone but me. On Friday night/Saturday morning Mike told me to download the demo so we could pair up and play together. Normally I’d say no, but I just paid to renew my Gold...

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  • Xbox not so “live” soon

    Xbox not so “live” soon

    I know that since we provide news for quite a few gamers and geeks that a few of you are probably still playing Xbox titles, either on your 360 or like me and on your original Xbox.  Well that’s all and well if you don’t...

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  • Xbox Live “romance” results in prison

    Xbox Live “romance” results in prison

    A 27-year-old Richmond Heights man met a 15-year-old girl over XBox Live and drove a little over 30 hours to Sanger, Calif. to have sex with the girl. Edward Stout is now facing up to 10 years in prison and will be registered as a...

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