Xbox Gaming in South Africa

It's Labour Day weekend this weekend in America, which means that it's another double XP weekend this weekend in Gears of War 2. Logically.

And because of some esoteric American sociocultural thing, there's all kinds of emphasis on playing Hardcore - with Hardcore Horde racking up bonus XP, equivalent to double Insane XP. Also:

• Double experience for all Horde games and Public multiplayer games
• Winning team gets a 500 XP bonus in Public multiplayer
• Public Horde will default to Hardcore difficulty instead of Normal
• Horde will be infected with Sires, just like the Ticker attack of July 4th