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Microsoft Offers Free Xbox LIVE Arcade Title for Outages

SUNDAY JANUARY 20 2008 9:00 AM

Submitted by punk. Edited By thefreak.

TAGS: Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, video games, free

Earlier this month Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE service was unreliable at best. Users were greeted with either frequent Yo-Yo disconnects (Connected! Not connected. Connected! Not connected.) or cryptic messages about Windows LIVE IDs - just in time for the post-Christmas present game-fest.

As they attempted to address the situation, Microsoft assured their loyal players that it was not the result of hackers or hardware failure, but the “largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history,” according to LIVE’s manager Marc Whitten. And instead of a simple apology, they decided to hand every LIVE subscriber a free game for their trouble.

We’re pleased to announce that from 2:00 a.m. PST Wednesday, January 23, 2008 through 11:59 p.m. PST, Sunday, January 27, 2008 you can download the full version of the recent Xbox LIVE Arcade game, Undertow free of charge.

The game description, from Xbox.com:

Undertow is a fast-paced action-shooter that sends you underwater as you battle up to 16 players for control of the oceans! Non-stop conquest-style battles push the envelope of onscreen effects and combat action and boast some of the most stunning graphics ever seen in an Xbox LIVE® Arcade title.

punk invites Xbox enthusiasts to check out the Xbox Et Al Group.

6 Comments

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

JAN 20, 2008 09:31 AM

Well, while I wish I could get any bloody game I wanted, I'll take what I can get.

Thanks for the update, punk.

-TM

punk

NEWSWIRE

Phoenix, AZ

JAN 20, 2008 09:43 AM

Sucks for folks who already have Undertow, too.

sillyokio

Egypt

January 2005

JAN 20, 2008 10:29 AM

Here's hoping I get my xbox back from the Red Ring of DeathCamp in time.
I'm all about free games.

BongoCave

Norway

January 2008

JAN 20, 2008 12:37 PM

Wish they just give me gamerpoints, but YES to free achivments

lapsus_linguae

Australia

June 2007

JAN 26, 2008 02:52 PM

Is it just me, or does Undertow really suck? I'm loving the part with the free game, just not the part with the squinting at impossible to see pin-head sized graphics.

Maybe its time for a new TV.

t0mmyb0y

United Kingdom

September 2006

JAN 26, 2008 04:50 PM

Undertow is a crap game, they should have given us microsoft points instead to the equivalent of the arcade game we would like. But then I think this is a lame compo anyway