Sweet, I was about to download that game.

How do we find out when we joined the service?

Chris

SWEET! Downloadable version of Psychonauts! Goggalor here i come!!!!

Nice, since I'm waiting for my coffin to show up (UPS tracking indicates it should be here tomorrow), so I can send my dead 360 back, guess I won't get to participate in this freebie...

Anyone get friends requests from people they don't know out of the blue. I suppose that is normal. But I accepted one. Killerajk. It says he is currently playing games like Assassins Creed and Blacksite and when I go to his games list its always blank and he has no gamerscore. Weird stuff.

Live has been messed up for hours. I would check back on it later because it's probably just a weird glitch.

Have no idea if the games are remotely any good, but Target has their summer family movie-inspired video games on clearance. Fantastic Four ROTSS is $9.98, Harry Potter OOTP is $19.98 and Shrek the Third is $12.48. I picked up the Shrek game since my daughter loves the character despite the crappy third film. I can't imagine one would at least break even if trading these in after a quick play-through/ Achievement hunt.

They have a bunch of games on clearance right now.

All Pro Football (sub $10)
Top Spin ($20)
DOAX2 ($20)
Hitman (?)
Arcade Unplugged (?)

plus the ones you mentioned.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about All-Pro. 2K Sports made a HUGE mistake marking that at $59.99 originally; clearly $39.99 would have been a better fit. I wonder if it would be a fun, worthwhile purchase at $10.

Also I goofed above. Harry Potter is $19.98, but Shrek is indeed $12.48. I'm going to see if the Live Arcade Shek game is worth getting for my daughter; I sort of doubt it, but I'll check out the demo anyway.

Carcassonne is free through today. A Great game, my most played on my Xbox. Unfortunately, I already bought it.

I don't think it is free yet. It starts the 15th and runs through the 16th.

^Seriously? Awesome. I've been meaning to pick this up after playing Catan.

I've been waiting for this game to drop in price because the demo was decent. The FF game is a possible pick up if it's only $10.

I want the points. I don't have enough of a balance to get anything, and I think an extra 500 points might push me over the threshold.

Well, I'm watching the A2 version of 300 (the one without an SD side) and it looks GOOD. When I saw the combo DVD I went "Eh." I guess it's always possible that they messed up the labeling (I double and triple checked that I was able to see "This side up to watch HD-DVD" on the disc). It is in reality very like a comic book, and there's an ever-presence of golden tones. I like :D

I went to Target at lunch and they have 1600 pts Xbox live cards in clearance too, $14.

I bought the five that were in this store.

By the way, these games are currently on clearance at Toys-R-Us for $9.98:
Arcade Unplugged
Bomberman Zero
Kameo
Perfect Dark Zero
Table Tennis
The Outfit

I picked up Table Tennis and Perfect Dark Zero today.

They also have other clearances but the price is $19.98 on these:
Battlefield 2
Bionicle Heroes
Blazing Angels
Cabela's African Adventure
Cabela's Alaskan Adventure
Call of Duty 2: Platinum Hits
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Dead Rising
FEAR
FIFA 2006 World Cup
Godfather
Hitman Blood Money
NBA 2K6
NCAA Football 07 I think(sku 618095)
NCAA March Madness 07(sku 684772)
NHL 2K7
Prey
Samurai Warriors(don't know if its 2 or Empires sku 701658)
Splinter Cell 4
Splinter Cell Double Agent
Superman Returns
Tetris Evolution

The other half of the announcement pretty much says say goodbye to free backwards compatability updates. The backwards compatability promised at launch has just now turned into a $16/game charge. And instead of holding on to the discs, you can fit about 2 games downloads on your puny hard drives. We're sorry, here's a free arcade game.

Yeah, I went to two Targets today looking for that deal but they were both sold out. Why would they clearance point cards?

Or, you could read it the "glass is half full" way. Now we are paying MS to make games backwards compatible...it could lead to more frequent updates in the future

Son... of... a... bitch...

No, that's not strong enough.

FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My launch unit just gave me the RROD.

Goddamnit.

Sorry to hear that, luckily I speak from experience 2 1/2-3 week turn around for a refurbished unit.

Splinter Cell: Double Agent (360) $10.75 after taxes at Big Kmart or Kmart (Sticker price $29.99)

Congrats! Now you get a new unit that shouldn't have that problem, might have HDMI and a quieter disk drive! :banana:

That was definitely not the case for me.