As most of you already know, on April 15th the Xbox Live Marketplace will welcome the Legendary map pack for 800 points. It will include 3 maps, two of which, Ghost Town and Avalanche, have already been announced. The third and final map will be officially announced Tuesday, however we now know it will be another remake.
We’re all paying for XBOX Live here. Other consoles have inferior, but free online gaming features. The PC has free and much superior online play. So my question is why do we continue to pay for a service that doesn’t even have a server for an individual game? When Halo 3 came out, Live froze every 5 seconds, because of the load of new users. Since we are paying $50 each, why can’t Microsoft buy every game a server?
Just a reminder to those that have not purchased the pack already, the heroic maps will be free on Tuesday, March 25 at 2 AM Pacific. As of the April playlist, the Heroic Map Pack will be required to play Ranked Big Team, Social Big Team, Team Slayer, and Rocket Race. Heroic Map pack trailer after the jump.
All six songs this week are the original recordings. The pack will be set at 800 Points ($10) with each song being 160 points ($2).
Boston Pack
Song previews after the break.
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Live 360 is back with another installment of our Top 5 Xbox 360 Games. Last week we brought you the Top 5 FPS, and now it is time for the Top 5 Role Playing Games on the Xbox 360. The following list is compiled based on graphics, gameplay, story, sound, longevity, innovation, and plain ol’ fun. Our decisions are heavily debated and you may or may not agree with us. After reading our list, send a comment our way and tell us whats on your mind.
Now here it is, Live-360’s Top 5 RPG’s!
 
Today, Southpeak Games has officially announced a sequel to their Open World RPG, Two Worlds. Two Worlds: The Temptation will continue the story of the first game and will feature graphics, “that have to be seen to be believed.” The Temptation will build upon the flaws of the first game and will be out sometime this fall for the Xbox 360 and PC.
Did you buy an HD-DVD player/360 add on? If you bought yours at Best Buy before February 23rd you are elidgable for a $50 gift card. All you have to do is call up Best Buy (or go there) and show them your reciept or if you payed with credit card you will show them your info and they will mail you a card by May 1st.
Best Buy plans on giving back $10 million in gift cards. Not only will you be able to get $50 but best buy is offering an online trade in program with more details on that March 21st.
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On April 3rd you will be able to pick up CoD4 Game of the Year edition and this is also the day the map pack will be released. In case you missed everything about the maps theres four in the pack. Creek, Chinatown, Broadcast, and Killhouse will be available via download token in the GOTY edition or 800 MS points through download. To see a preview of each map check out our previous post.
Well Bungie just released another map to go along with the vehicles released earlier in the week(Avalanche Vehicles). The official name of the map is Avalanche and it’s a tribute to the map sidewinder from Halo: CE.
The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with an earlier ruling that a Minnesota law meant to limit sales of M- and AO-rated games was unconstitutional.
Under the law, anyone under 17 who rented or purchased games rated M or AO would be fined $25. Shortly after it was enacted, retailers contested the law and won a July ‘06 court case. The ruling was later appealed, but has been squashed again by the appeals court. The court has consistently ruled that there is no concrete scientific evidence that violent video games are harmful to children.