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  • Xbox live and xbox.com down for maintenance

    In case you may have forgotten, Xbox is down for scheduled maintenance today. The outage affects both Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com. They started at midnight PST, and plan to take up to 24 hours to make the needed changes. I am told that this is not the dashboard update to the “New Xbox Experience” and that we will not see any cosmetic changes at all this time around. Hopefully it’s driving us closer to seeing the new dashboard and Netflix streaming capabilities!

    So, COD4 friends… what do you plan to play since we can’t get on for multiplayer today? I finished Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise over the weekend, so it’s a toss-up between Lost Odyssey (in which I am stuck at the first boss) or Bioshock (in which I am stuck at a Big Daddy). Whatever it is, I won’t let this little outage force me into doing housework during my beloved gaming hours!

  • I iz 1337!

    Today, I accomplished an amazing thing. I finished the Call of Duty 4 campaign on Veteran. After months of being stuck on No Fighting In the War Room (love that Dr. Strangelove reference!), I got some help from the guys on the xbox.com forums and watched a few videos on nextgenwalkthroughs.com. It took me two nights of sheer determination to get through the crates and then the tunnels in NFITWR, but less than 30 minutes after blasting through to the control room, I was watching the credits again. Woot! Deep and Hard is probably the hardest 360 achievement I have unlocked to date. Pizza Party with the Knice People tonight!

    I am taking a break before even attempting Mile High Club…

  • Call of Duty 4: Double XP weekend

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    This weekend is double XP in COD4 Multiplayer on Xbox Live, starting about 2 hours ago and running through Sunday. At the same time, the Variety Map Pack is discounted 50% to just 400 MS points.  For $5, you can play in two of my favorite maps, Chinatown and Broadcast, and get your head sniped off 5000 times in Creek (if your skill level is similar to mine). Killhouse is the 4th map, and it’s awesome for 1v1. See you in Headquarters, where I’ll be spending my weekend.