Destructoid reminder: Xbox LIVE will be down tomorrow.
Starting Tuesday June 16 at 7:01 A.M. UTC, the service will be offline for up to twenty-four hours. This -- just like the last time Microsoft purposefully pulled the plug on Xbox LIVE for an extended period of time -- is to prepare the service for new integrations: Twitter, Facebook, Last.FM and the host of other stuff announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009.
The bad news is you won’t be able to Tweet from your dashboard that the service is online again. However, if you can make that long walk back to your computer desk, you’ll be able to do it from there. Provided Twitter isn’t down as well.
The good news is that the transition to the aforementioned forthcoming features should be painless. After all, Microsoft did steal an entire day in order from you to do so.
What should you do while Xbox LIVE is down? We suggest checking out some PSN titles, playing Killzone 2, or revisiting some PlayStation One classics if you’re spectacularly bored. Or, you know, you could play an Xbox 360 game offline -- that’s always an option, although your Achievement time stamps will be slightly off.
The choice is yours! What will you guys be doing?
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11:30 PM on 06.15.2009
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I don't know what you're talking about, I play my arcade titles offline all the time.
haha that was fantastic
Yeah, I'll probably spend most of today discovering the world that lays beyond my houses walls. Seriously, I need to get outside.
Wait.
why does this line make no sense? i see this a lot on blogs. writers just use spell check, but have no grammer check (hah) this is where editors come in handy.
I don't mind that it's down, but I hope this sort of thing doesn't start happening often.
you don't. Just make a hotmail account and get the one month trial. As long as you're not a cheevo whore, enjoy online play with your friends for free.
Kinda sucks all my community (indie) games are reliant on xbox live! I bought em dammit let me play em ( and random Rock Band DLC wont let me play either)-- this DRM thing is bullshit!