Xbox announced the update a little bit ago. It’s features to help parents with game control. Pretty great stuff if you ask me. I do appreciate Xbox enabling me as a parent in the access my son and daughter have to online content as well as games on the Xbox 360. My Xbox and access to the forums could be another 24 wait and because I am at work I don’t know yet if LIVE is up. More information soon to come.
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It’s that time of the year again. Xbox. com shut down yesterday for the regular maintenance stuff as well as some “amazing” new features. The funny thing was that it was supposed to be down for 24hrs, from midnight to midnight. Now its 7:45 pacific and still nothing. The site popped up a few minutes ago but I was not able to log on. I’m going to keep trying though.. I want to know why I couldn’t play Far Cry last night!!!
Update: It’s back up now… but still can’t login. Still don’t know WHAT’S NEW?!?!?!
Update 8:09am: Can’t get into the forums or log in. Any attempt sends me back to the main page. Still waiting and hopeing!
Update 10:35am: Still waiting….
Xbox announced yesterday their new “Xbox LIVE PIPELINE” for browsing the LIVE Marketplace on the web. This is a good idea but still needs some work. After using the service for a day I have some good and bad things to say.
First, the positives: a well built site that’s not a total pain to navigate, a chance to preview new releases before you (go find them again and) download them. A little preview is available for each title and included cost of each. I do like this mainly so I don’t have to waist game-time on the 360 Marketplace unless there’s something I want to go grab.
Now the cons: no freaking preview of themes or gamer-pictures? COME ON! I just want to see what I’m buying before I pull the trigger. I also think there should be a way to message yourself on the console so you don’t have to go find the download again. Just allowing for the user to message a link or reminder would be great.