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Xbox Live Rewards Gamers For Its 5 Year Bash

From an article on ign.com, it seems Microsoft has big plans for its 5 year birthday of Xbox Live. Come December 5th, Xbox Live subscribers can boot up their 360 for an auto update which give gamers access to full original Xbox games on the Xbox Live Marketplace. A move that is surely copying the success of Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console, Microsoft is giving gamers the option to download Halo, Psychonauts, Crimson Skies: Road to Revenge, Fables, and a few unannounced games at this time for a mere 1200 Microsoft points, roughly $15.

But that isn't all folks, on November 15th, the actual 5 year anniversary of Live, Microsoft is giving every gamer on Live a free Xbox Arcade download. Korean gamers will receive Hexic 2, while everyone else in the world gets Carcossonne. And finally, every Live subscriber that has been around since 2002 will get 500 free Microsoft points.

All around this is great news. A virtual console, much like Wii's, is the logical next step for the Xbox Marketplace, and its great to see them finally getting around to it. The selection of initial games is also fantastic merely because Psychonauts is among the games to choose from. The game is so rare to actually find in stores, and is such a fantastic game that everyone should try it out, it surely comes highly recommended from myself. And while I can't speak for either of the arcade games being given away, I will gladly take anything with the label "free" on it, and give it a shot. Though I never want to try pronouncing the title of the game North Americans will have access too. I am also happy about the free 500 points because I think I apply for that deal. I remember buying Xbox Live when Unreal Championship first came out, making my ownership of Live roughly 5 years. So....yay for me.

But really this is about every gamer with an Xbox and Live benefiting from the anniversary and its great to see Microsoft taking the time to give something back to the fans that support them.

I leave you with the fine trailer for Psychonauts....GET THIS GAME!

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Posted by Erik on November 13, 2007 7:15 PM
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YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!! just cause ur not a guy. doesn't mean you can be in LOVE!! with halo!!!! kick but. finally. i hardly understand how my 360 halo disk works. so halo2 is just as good [ in some ways ] so thins kicks serious @$$

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