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:lol:

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Sonic & Sega racing might be fun for a 4 year old.

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Cars 2 is an excellent racing game for kids. Don't be fooled by the title, as it's not based on the movie at all except for the characters and visual style. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, as mentioned above, is another great one. Both of those are better in quality than Madagascar Kartz or Dreamworks Super Star Kartz, but those are options as well.

I'd definitely recommend looking for Cars 2 as your first choice, though.

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Today's Xbox update is taking forever. WTF!!!!

I searched in Twitter, just to be sure, and it seems most people is having the same issue.

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?...pdate&src=typd

Someone said that's three updates. I'm in the second one right now, the one that's taking forever. I mean I had one update, my Xbox rebooted, and had this second update, that's taking more than 10 minutes to download, and it's, according to the progress bar, halfway there.

I really hope this doesn't become the norm. :(

And oh yeah, I still need to update my second Xbox. #firstworldproblems

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Too bad it's no longer on sale, but Joy Ride Turbo is actually a pretty fun XBLA kart racer using avatars. Better than I thought it would be. Might be worth 800 points to you. Check out the demo.

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Thanks, I'll check that out (had the other Joy Ride game, but returned it due to poor reviews). Grabbed a few indie games and will look for that Sega game.

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:shrug: Mine didn't take that long.

Then again, I did mine around 5pm. Less bandwidth traffic at dinner time?

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For those who never received their Halo 4 golden election avatar armor, I posted on the Xbox Rewards forum and received a code via Xbox PM the next day from an Xbox Rep. They gave me both a male and female code. Please note that my Rewards account did show that I earned the armor; I just never received the code.

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The new update is causing a lot of consoles to be effectively frozen on startup, enough so that MS has issued a service alert:

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Did you have two updates too?

It's the second one that takes a lot of time. I'm updating my second Xbox right now. It seems it's going to take some time, same as yesterday.

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Is it an important update? should I decline it if its causing problems?

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If you want to do anything online, you have to do it.

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The Crunchyroll app is now available:

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http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...e-on-xbox-live

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I got an email from Microsoft this week, warning me that if I don't renew my XBox Live Gold subscription, I risk losing the benefits it includes.

But... my membership doesn't expire until March... 2014.
:hscratch:

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posted this in another thread, but I thought some xbox guys would get a kick out of this name...

https://live.xbox.com/en-US/Profile?...luffyafropubes

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:lol:

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Did you also see his friend? https://live.xbox.com/en-US/Profile?...uperStankyNutz

and his friend https://live.xbox.com/en-US/Profile?...ayonnaiseCanon

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Weird. Anyone else having issues with Live. I was on the Xbox site when it wouldn't connect. Then, I dl'ed some games, when I came back, I'm signed in, but it won't show me any social stuff.

Looks like there is something going on: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status

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This looks cool. Is this being projected from the TV or a seperate box?

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It uses a Kinect and a projector:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/...ts/illumiroom/

It's not clear where the Kinect is located in the video, but I'm guessing it's behind the player, so that it can visualize the surroundings and "augment them" (like you see with the vibrating shelves).

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Pretty cool.

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The IllumiRoom thing looks really cool, but I just spent 8 months of last year building out a home theater with a 10' screen and projector. I don't think there's any way I could incorporate that thing into my setup and I'm not moving my gaming back to a TV after getting used to a giant screen.

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Amazon Games is giving away codes for early access to the Dead Space 3 demo on facebook and twitter today. Just got one.

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Blah, blah, blah, more details:

http://www.vgleaks.com/world-exclusi...ango-unveiled/

And of course people are writing long posts about this, in all the videogame blogs.