Articles tagged with 'xbox live'

Xbox LIVE subscription fees increasing in November

Monday, 30 August 2010 Steven De Klerk

Microsoft has announced via MajorNelson's blog that Xbox LIVE membership fees will see a price increase from 1 November 2010 for members in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and the United States ...

XBL Deal of the Week: Alien themed content

Monday, 30 August 2010 Tarryn van der Byl

It's all about the aliens this week, apparently, with a bunch of alien-themed content going at up to 50% off on Xbox LIVE for Gold members ...

PayPal console integration on its way?

Friday, 27 August 2010 Tarryn van der Byl

PayPal has been available to US Xbox LIVE subscribers for some time already, but the payment service is currently only supported on Xbox.com. This might be set to change, however. According to a report on the Forbes blog, PayPal could be heading for a complete console integration ...

XG's Top 10 Xbox LIVE games in South Africa [Week of Aug 16]

Monday, 23 August 2010 Henry Dowling

It looks like everyone is having trouble with their 'eject' buttons, because Modern Warfare 2 still tops the charts, almost a year on. We suspect Treyarch's next addition in the CoD series will follow in MW2's foot steps and topple Infinity Ward's tour de force when it hits later this year ...

Xbox LIVE coming to South Africa in November

Thursday, 19 August 2010 Steven De Klerk

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that Xbox LIVE will finally be rolling out to all countries where the Xbox 360 is sold "by December 2010". And now thanks to an interview over on El33tOnline with Product Manager for Xbox Live EMEA Robin Burrowes, we know that Xbox LIVE will be available in South Africa as early as November ...

New Xbox 360 games to include Xbox LIVE content in South Africa

Thursday, 12 August 2010 Steven De Klerk

With Xbox LIVE officially launching later this year in South Africa, Microsoft has confirmed that all new Xbox 360 releases going forward will include LIVE content ...

Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week: Dragon Age: Origins DLC

Monday, 09 August 2010 Steven De Klerk

BioWare's dark fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Origins takes to the spotlight in this week's Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week promotion with discounted DLC and Avatar clothing. In fact, it's this week's and next week's DOTW according to MajorNelson ...

XG's Top 10 Xbox LIVE games in South Africa [Week of Jul 19]

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 Henry Dowling

So it seems Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 has settled in nicely back at the top of the charts, with pretenders to the throne such as Red Dead Redemption and Bad Company 2 not managing to hold the position for more than a week or two at best. Perhaps we'll have to wait for the next installment in the Call of Duty saga or Halo: Reach to really give MW2 a run for its money ...

XBL Deal of the Week: Borderlands DLC

Monday, 26 July 2010 Tarryn van der Byl

This must be one of the most epic deals in the history of epic deals - not only were these great deals when they were originally released at only 800 MSP each, they're now going at the even more epic deal of just 400 MSP each thanks to the Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week promotion ...