That's exactly what blows.. You know guys here are going to buy them, which in turn, makes us have to buy them if we want to play.

If not, I'd hear.. "Oh, Tbird doesn't have that map, cheap bastard, so we can't play that one.." OR most likely I'd hear. "Tbird doesn't have that map, cheap bastard, screw him.. Let's play!"

That's what I say already regardless of whether or not the map is the issue

Anyone know a workaround with the no DSL but need to load single player data problem
?

I will be buying them and also making fun of Martin and/or Tbird whether they buy the maps or not.

I believe there's a way to tell your system not to auto sign into xbox live. You either have to fool with personal settings or system settings I think.

But that's just it. You sign in when you play single player so there's no problem. But if you don't sign in, your games don't get saved and you don't register achievements.

You need to be signed into a profile, whether or not you're on Live.

That would only be possible if you actually played COD.. Lately you've been too occupied with Oblivion and DW5 (WTH!?)..

What's the matter Colonel Sanders.... Chicken??

Yes, you can opt to NOT Auto-Sign in. I think if you hit the XBOX Guide button there is a setting in there. I had mine the opposite for a while.

I know I played my 360 offline for almost a month, since I had a defective 360 and had to wait for my coffin. Basically, MS screwed up....long story, posted somewhere else.

the vampire princess is afraid to tangle with us Tbird

I see, breaking out the princess comments now. Talk about the gloves coming off

No, i have (and still do) have a guest staying with me and since none of the games let me join online with a guest like Halo did i obviously am playing offline games. I rented DW5 and while not a great game is a fun hack and slash with a touch of strategy that has kept both he and an i occupied. No worries though, i'll be back online gunning for you guys near the end of the week.

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* Monday, May 8: Check out The Lord of the Rings™, The Battle for Middle-earth™ II and many more.
* Tuesday, May 9: Get a sneak peak at lots more new Xbox 360™ game trailers.
* Wednesday, May 10: See WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 in action, plus many more game trailers.
* Thursday, May 11: Take an early look at Dead or Alive Extreme 2.
* Friday, May 12: The trailer for Saint's Row is finally unveiled.

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Monday, May 8

* Test Drive® Unlimited: Race exotic vehicles on diverse Hawaiian roads in Atari's fast-paced racer.

Tuesday, May 9

* Lost Planet™ : Capcom shows off its upcoming action sci-fi shooter set on the frozen tundra of a hostile planet.

Thursday, May 11

* MotoGP '06: Experience extreme racing with stunning photorealistic graphics and a blisteringly fast game engine.

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Tuesday, May 9

UNO®: The latest additon to Xbox Live Arcade is the classic party card game that’s number one for family fun! Compete against three other players to match colors and symbols, go Wild with special command cards such as Skip and Reverse, and be the first to play all your cards. Add-on theme decks offer new art and new card effects, keeping the game fresh and challenging.

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Wednesday, May 10
Call of Duty® 2 Map Packs: Activision has some exciting new premium and free map packs to get you through the week. Battle across new multiplayer maps for this intense WWII shooter.

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Monday, May 8

* Poseidon movie trailer.

Wednesday, May 10

* A Scanner Darkly movie trailer.

Thursday, May 11

* Rihanna will have a live performance of her song, "S.O.S."

Friday, May 12

* Hip-hop star Chris Brown will perform three songs live.

Saturday, May 13

* The Promise movie trailer.


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* Silver and Gold dashboard themes
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Friday, May 12

* X-Men dashboard theme

Saturday, May 13 and Sunday, May 14

* X-Men Picture Pack

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Test Drive: Unlimited demo.

I was hoping for the new splinter cell demo, sonic demo, and LOTR demo. I'm a little dissapointed.

I was hoping to check out Lost Planet this week but with no 360 that won't be possible. I'm afraid of what negative things my 360 blog is going to say since I will be w/o my console for a few weeks.

Here is a good one from my 360 blog the other day:

I'm still baffled by Uno. Of all the potential games out there they had to go with one with the least amount of strategy or even decision making.

I keep hoping we see something like Cosmic Encounter on Live. They already have a version you can subscribe to and play online so they could take that, throw it on Live, sell you alien races as expansions and have free play otherwise and it would be awesome.

check out the online game at: www.cosmicencounter.com

Yea, I'm disappointed too. I was expecting a lot more in the demo area.

Me too. Especially when the email that was sent previously lumped everything together

The lack of demos does kind of suck, but it's better than nothing.

Hopefully MS and the devs get the message that we want much more next year.

Where the heck is Street Fighter!

I hope there's more that they just aren't saying. It doesn't even say they have a trailer for Splinter Cell or Sonic. At least give us trailers for that.

Where is our FREE POKER?

In the trailers it does say "and many more" so I think they just want to keep some stuff under wraps.

Speaking of the devil, Sonic Trailer and LOTR trailers are up.

Tons of stuff up now.