Just in case you need to buy a cheap gift for a friend who is a fellow gamer and said friend lives far away or you are just to lazy to mail it, you can now buy them and deposit them in some one else’s account. Thanks to Majornelson, the points can be purchased by clicking on HERE. You can also link to it from Majornelson’s home page, but this is the same redirect. All you need is your Windows Live ID, a credit card, and some holiday spirit. This is the Beta version of this and is currently only allowed in the US. Sorry to all our friends across the pond.
Note: As of right now, you need the person’s Windows Live ID, which is basically the email address they use for their account. Gamertag transfers will be available soon, but not in this current beta version.
Some new Bioshock content went live today on Xbox Live. There are 6 videos, all free and in HD that will show you the locations of all the audio diaries located throughout Rapture. Just in case you played the game and did not listen to these, well, they are super creepy and often add good plot details. Again, free. Free.
Here is a list of the new planes that are available to download off of XBL. One plane is free, but the others will cost you between 200-400 points. The game is awesome by the way and Gamefly is sending me a copy now; I played it on a friend’s machine. I’m not a huge fan of paying for anything supplemental to a game and Maps are the only exception. Click more for the list and appropriate pricing. If anyone has bought these planes, let me know how they are.
So we have all been sitting around waiting for it and now the day has come, new Halo 3 maps available today. Bungie is taking the same strategy they took for the Halo 2 expansion maps, charge now and make them free later. In 2008 the maps will be free downloads as soon as the newer maps are made available. All maps are editable in the Forge, which is always nice.
Two more titles will be made available at the usual time this Wednesday on XBLA.
Two items have just been made available on Xbox Live Marketplace. The first in the free download for the Renault Clio 197. Once downloaded, the car will be able to be purchased in game with credits.
There are many XBLA titles, and there are a number of them which are quite good. There will be some titles re-released in a sense. The games have not really changed in content, but in price. The following games will be released at the updated prices on Tuesday. Consequently, there will be no release this Wednesday. Click more for the games and prices.
After careful reading of ALL the features and noticed that parents can now limit the time their kids are playing. The feature will allow the parents to enter a passcode which will enable a shutdown timer either daily or weekly. This timer would have warning countdowns that will let the gamer know exactly how much time is left. The Family Timer will also disable startup until the clock has expired. I am not totally in disagreement with this because childhood obesity is at an all time high, but how many parents actually know how to use the Xbox 360 let alone know that a dash update is available. I would like to see some statistics on how many Family Timers are used. It would be a good prank if your roommate hogs the tv with Mass Effect while you are trying to watch The Real World. Thought’s anyone?
