Same here. Now you can usually find GTA IV with both DLC packs for 30 bucks or less. I won't do that ever again.

Just got home and got the message on Live. Responded via Live but yes - many thanks!

Thanks for the links to the HD swap videos. I had no idea the older ones could be shoe-horned into the new boxes so now my son has an old 20g in his shiny new 4g rig.

4gb with kinect like new from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used

Currently at 247.99

250gb with kinect like new $313 http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used

Oh that post was directed towards Sominex if he was interested. The 4gb without kinect is also usually 150ish. They had a 250gb without kinect for $200 earlier today as well.

And sominex thanks for such a friendly response to my response. Glad you're doing better, didn't know anything about proposals or getting hit by cars (sheesh!) or any of that. Good luck with the recovery (and the proposal?) and have fun gaming.

That isn't going to happen. I am about 45 hours into Fallout and won't be playing another game until I finish it. I finished the Mother Ship DLC a couple of hours ago (game time) and am very much enjoying turning things to dust with the alien guns.

anyone ever have their xbox overheat? i screwed up yesterday. i accidentally left a netflix envelope on top of the newer machine (where the vents are) and it overheated. seems fine now. just wanted to see if there might be any potential future problems.

My Xbox has started having issues when I hit the eject button. It will make a chug sound like it is trying to open the tray but then won't. It happened every so often a long time ago but got back on track. Now it is happening more often... I have a distinct feeling it is going to die on me soon.

Same thing happened to me, in the end it stopped opening and I had to get it repaired at BB.

My first Elite started doing pretty much the same thing. It didn't want to open sometimes when I'd press eject. I had to send it in to Microsoft and, since that isn't covered under their warranty, I had to pay $124 (CAD.) They incorrectly quoted me $110, so they sent me a free wireless controller.

They don't do repairs here in Canada. We just have relay stations. So, I requested a new console (I didn't want someone's dirty/possibly broken refurb,) and luckily got one. I still have it, as this was a couple of years ago.

12 month gold for $30
http://www.shoprizer.com/store/produ...live-gold-card

That site reliable? Why does it require you to join a group in order to get it for $30?

Sounds very shady. Caveat emptor.

I've been led to believe it is, but I don't know for sure. I think it is similar to Groupon or other such sites.

Just a headsup, XBox Live 12 Month subscription card is on sale at Target for $44. I went ahead and picked one up even though my subscription doesn't expire for another 5 months. It doesn't hurt to be ahead of the game and the $15 discount is nice. I know there are better deals online, but this is the best B&M deal I've seen for the subscription in a long time.

Since we're talking sales, both Best Buy and Amazon have 1600 point cards on sale this week for $17.99. Yes $2 isn't a huge savings, but it's still 10% off and might be worth stocking up on a couple before the glut of February and March XBLA games hit.

Thanks. Since Amazon stopped selling codes, I made my last 2 points purchases at full price directly from the dashboard when I needed them fairly quickly due to a sale and/or desire for instant gratification. Didn't realize until I saw my bank statement that they add tax on top too. I might grab a couple now to be prepared ahead of time.

I have an Elite and an Arcade. The Arcade is at a house without Internet (don't ask). Can I buy stuff with the Elite, save it to the hard drive, and then use it on the arcade by taking over the hard drive? I know I can just go and try it, but I'm making plans and wanted to see if I could find out beforehand if it would work =) I was thinking of buying workouts for my workout games and songs for the dance games.

Not without Internet (don't ask).

No. But you could swing the arcade to your place, buy the stuff while connected on that one, and then use them on your elite (if it's connected to XBL). I believe.

So you CAN use stuff you bought at one XBOX with another XBOX as long as there is Internet connectivity, and you can use stuff bought at one XBOX in that same XBOX even when the Internet is shut off?

Yes.

You can also transfer stuff over to the second Xbox if you want to use it offline with that machine via a pretty clumsy process. But you can only have access to it offline on one machine.

That'd work, and it makes perfect sense, because if it didn't work this way you could just buy stuff once and share with everybody. Thanks Seems like the best thing to do is make one trip and load it up.

You could always tell your boyfriend to get internet or your going to hold out

The line was "your breath stinks," not "your break stinks." Boom, roasted.