Grab 800 not-quite-free Microsoft Points from 1-800-4MY-XBOX. Microsoft started giving away Undertow downloads as a cover-their-butts freebie to make up for the holiday Xbox Live outages.
It’s not exactly a blockbuster game, but it’s free to everyone and nice for those of us who never saw any outages because we’d gorged ourselves on pie and were [...]

The top-selling Blu-ray player by a huge margin is Sony’s PS3. That should be good news to all current owners, since the PS3 is (supposedly) the only Blu-ray player currently on the market that’s compatible with the Blu-ray 2.0 specifications. If you’re currently an owner of another Blu-ray player, suck it up, the bad news [...]

Activision is pre-announcing the release of replacement Guitar Hero III discs for the Wii. No bonuses or add-ons to make up for the mistake, but at least they’re not going to charge for shipping. Call Activision at (866) 780-8286 during their lame call center hours to pre-register for a replacement disc.

Second Life has had recurring asset issues and server outages since this Wednesday’s update. The “asset cluster” needs to be expanded to resolve the issues. Unfortunately the issues will probably continue for a whole week, since the restart and downtime Linden Labs has scheduled aren’t until next Wednesday.
If you’re compulsive enough to be playing [...]

All that holiday downtime equals a free Xbox LIVE Arcade game to every member of the service. It’s not going to heal all the extra time spent with family for gamers with days off and new gifts to play. It’s still a whole lot better than how Microsoft handled the original Xbox 360 bricking problems [...]

Major Nelson, Microsoft’s official Xbox PR-blogger, has been dropping status updates for days. He’s finally posted to Twitter that Xbox LIVE looks pretty good to him. He’d like to know what the rest of us think:
LIVE is looking pretty good now….how is it for you guys-n-girls?
If you’re down hop over to the Major Nelson blog [...]