It's time to un-cork the champagne and celebrate! Our pals over at Gamertag Radio are celebrating their 100th episode by showing listeners some love and giving away a limited edition Halo 3 Zune. And all you have to do to enter the giveaway is listen to the podcast and send in your honest opinion of the 100th episode. It's that easy! Heck, you may even hear some familiar voices while listening. So, go give the 100th episode a listen, enter the free Halo 3 Zune giveaway, and be sure to congratulate the entire GTR team for a job well done. We only hope that we can churn out 100 Fancasts without going through mandatory therapy or needing voice transplants.
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GTR giving away a Halo 3 Zune for 100th episode
It's time to un-cork the champagne and celebrate! Our pals over at Gamertag Radio are celebrating their 100th episode by showing listeners some love and giving away a limited edition Halo 3 Zune. And all you have to do to enter the giveaway is listen to the podcast and send in your honest opinion of the 100th episode. It's that easy! Heck, you may even hear some familiar voices while listening. So, go give the 100th episode a listen, enter the free Halo 3 Zune giveaway, and be sure to congratulate the entire GTR team for a job well done. We only hope that we can churn out 100 Fancasts without going through mandatory therapy or needing voice transplants.
Live ID lameness rears ugly head once more
If your gamertag is saddled with a Hotmail or MSN email address, you may know of the unbreakable bond between them. Discovered long ago, it is impossible to associate your gamertag with a new email address if your Windows Live ID was automatically created by a Microsoft site like Hotmail or MSN. Before, it was a minor annoyance, as it forced many to maintain an email address they had long since abandoned. Now, with the release of Live Messenger integration on the 360, it's become a serious nuisance.
Custom jacket featuring your gamertag ... sweetness
Being a Xbox MVP must be life, not only do you get a bunch of respect from the community, but you also get one sweet jacket from Microsoft. DeaconBlade over at Unscripted 360 received a special gift from Redmond, a custom Xbox 360 jacket featuring his very own gamertag lovingly detailed on the back. Are we jealous? Just a tad, but we know the big guys over at Microsoft are reading this and sending out our own custom jackets this very moment. Who are we kidding ... those MVPs get all the good stuff.
Some Xbox Live accounts hacked [update 1]
Over the weekend a group of hackers hijacked Windows Live IDs through Bungie.net and supposedly took over all accounts associated within those IDs. ZDNet.com compiled a list of sources who are confirming such hacks after a security researcher over at Digital Munition released a full disclosure report. ZDNet.com then received emails from Xbox Live members confirming that their accounts have been taken over and that everything from fraudulent charges on their account to password changes occurred. So far Microsoft has somewhat admitted to the problem, but hasn't been overly helpful. There has been no official word from Microsoft, but in a phone conversation with a Xbox Live Tech they said that "hackers have control of Xbox live and there is nothing we can do about it".Have you noticed anything screwy with your Xbox Live account or Windows Live ID? So far we haven't heard anything from the fanboy community, making us believe this is a much more isolated problem then ZDNet.com makes it appear. But we definitely think Microsoft needs to either come out and admit to the problem and tell us what happened or squash this over-zealous rumor. This whole hacking problem further begs the question; why can't hackers and gamers live in harmony?
Update 1: This mystery has been solved!
[Via Digg]
The psychology behind you and your Gamertag
Playing on Xbox Live introduces you to a plethora of personalities, cultures, and interesting people. And unless you've been living under the 360's power brick, you know that on Xbox Live your online identity is your Gamertag. But what does your Gamertag really tell others about you? The guys over at Games Radar put on their scientific hats, because they were curious to what the sub-conscious meaning and hidden significance was behind a person's Gamertag. They took a sample of real Gamertags, broke them down into six categories, and received some insight from a professor of psychology. They came away with a few generalized meanings behind each category as they make logicial (psychology) sense. A person's Gamertag is (simply put) their chosen online identity, a label to which they wish to be called, and a label they consciously choose. So, sometimes their is hidden meaning behind a Gamertag and we can learn a little bit about a person just from it, even without even talking to them. But even after reading this article I have yet to learn what the hidden significance behind SuperDunners is ... I guess I'm just super.[Via Digg]
Vision video chat demo
Gamertag Radio got to check out the Vision Cameras video chat functionality at the Microsoft Games Unwrapped event in NYC. Not exactly earth shattering if you've used a webcam in the past 10 years, but still eagerly awaited. Unfortunately, the hot chick isn't included with the retail SKU, so you're stuck chatting with whoever is on your friends list. I hope there's an option for full-screen.
Chart your GamerScore
Here's a site that lets you graphically chart your GamerScore progress by simply entering your tag. Nice idea, but I suggest enhancing the visuals. That chart looks way too much like the ones I see at budget meetings.[Thanks Jim]
