Experience Xbox Live for Free

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Microsoft today announced the start of a free two-month Xbox Live trial with purchase of select Live-enabled games. As we informed last week, the promotion kicked off with the newly released NFL Fever 2004.

In the coming months gamers can take advantage of the free trial by purchasing any of the following titles:

ACCLAIM -- NBA Jam, Burnout 2: Point of Impact (Developer’s Cut), All-Star Baseball 2005 featuring Derek Jeter
Activision -- , Cabela’s Deer Hunt: 2004 Season, Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts
Atari -- Unreal II: The Awakening, Magic: the Gathering - Battlegrounds, Dead Man's Hand
Codemasters -- Pro Race Driver PRDXL
ESPN Videogames -- ESPN NHL Hockey, ESPN NFL Football, ESPN NBA Basketball, ESPN NCAA College Hoops
Jaleco -- World Championship Pool 2004
Konami -- Dance Dance Revolution UltraMix
LucasArts -- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Knight Academy
Majesco -- Black 9
Microsoft Game Studios -- Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Counter-Strike Condition Zero, Project Gotham Racing 2, NBA Inside Drive 2004, NFL Fever 2004, NHL Rivals 2004, Top Spin Tennis, Links 2004, Amped 2
Sega -- Sega GT Online
Take 2 Interactive -- Conflict: Desert Storm 2 - Back to Baghdad
Tecmo -- Ninja Gaiden
Ubi Soft -- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Island Thunder, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, XIII (Thirteen)
Vivendi Universal Games -- Hunter: The Reckoning Redeemer, S.W.A.T. Global Strike Team

News source: Team Xbox

What's New in This Release:

· The WBZ/WBC support has been removed! (At request of www.webshots.com)
· Support for Adobe 8BF filters: Image->Effects menu (PlugIn)
· Support for JPM format (JPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpm, PlugIn)
· Support for DDS format (Direct Draw Surface) (Formats PlugIn)
· Support for DXF format. PlugIn from: http://www.cadsofttools.com (Shareware)
· Support for DWG format (AutoCAD 13 or later, preview only)
· Simple saturation option added (Image->Enhance Colors and Batch mode)
· New options for GIF/ICO transparent saving (save dialog options)
· New edit menu: Create custom selection
· New advanced batch option: Add overlay text
· New batch scan option: Skip existing files
· The image selection can be moved using the right mouse button
· Expanded Copy/Move dialog (more folders)
· Option to set JPG Comment/IPTC for multiple files (from Thumbnails window)
· Option to set the cut color (Properties->Misc 3)
· Option to sort files in "Create multipage TIF" dialog
· Option to set the start image index in the slideshow dialog (double click)
· Option to enable/disable dithering for color reduction
· New option: "Properties->Misc. 1->Show TGA alpha color"
· Improved JPG lossless operations: Use as JPG cleaner possible
· New options for HTML export
· Change: PSP, CAM, SFW formats moved to FORMATS PlugIn
· Wallpaper save location changed (Folder: "Application data")
· Slideshow movement in now possible in automatic mode too (space/backspace ...)
· Improved SGI, TIF reading
· Improved command line option: /slideshow; Examples:
i_view32.exe /slideshow=folder
i_view32.exe /slideshow=folder*.jpg
· New command option: /aspectratio; Enable aspect ratio for /resize and /resample
· New command line option: /info=txtfile; Write image infos to text file
Example: i_view32 c:test.jpg /info=test.txt
Example: i_view32 c:*.jpg /info=jpgs.txt
· Most PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
· Some minor bugs/features fixed/added (Filter Factory, RAW)

#1 Cryptic_Night on 04 Sep 2003 - 20:43

Too bad I'm on a 56k Modem :'(

#2 Coolme on 04 Sep 2003 - 22:02

Great Deal

#3 gameguy on 04 Sep 2003 - 22:46

hmmm... i think i'm going to go buy a game

(5 replies) #4 ~~NeYo~~ on 04 Sep 2003 - 23:16

So, the Xbox has live capabilities out of the box right?
WTF, besides the 12 month subscription and Stupid Mic type thing do you get for Forty quid?!

#4.1 hobsgrg on 04 Sep 2003 - 23:41

an attractive box?

#4.2 blackice912 on 04 Sep 2003 - 23:42

Downloading extras that you can only get on Live.

#4.3 xEonBuRn on 04 Sep 2003 - 23:54

well, what good is the live capabilities if you don't have the subscription to use it... 12 months is a lot of online game play... aside from the mic I'd pay $40 for that. What is the monthly cost afterward anyway?

#4.4 grafXguru on 05 Sep 2003 - 02:49

a years subscription and a headset aren't enough for 40?

#4.5 insurektion on 05 Sep 2003 - 03:51

Lagproofage FROM OTHER LAMERS (AS LONG AS YOU DONT SUCK). 1 year of this. and a cool headset (mic-typething) is not at all a bad deal. ms has like 30 or 40 something deicated servers for live.

(1 reply) #5 Faid on 05 Sep 2003 - 03:56

Microsoft has dedicated servers? Could have fooled me. Most servers are run by the people who actually paid to run them in the first place.

Xbox Live is pretty awesome though, especially with the Mic.

What sucks is I will be seeing even more people without Mics online thanks to this trial, which sucks especially in a team based game.

#5.1 gameguy on 06 Sep 2003 - 05:42

yes, microsoft runs the servers for xbox live. this way, the game publishers don't have to worry about making their own online platform (which would most likely have less features than xbox live) and can concentrate on making a better game

#6 divertom15 on 05 Sep 2003 - 18:57

*******Wait, Wait, Wait, here we go people this is the best joke of all

QUOTE

Microsoft Game Studios -- Counter-Strike Condition Zero,

when is that going to be out maybe they ought to add duke nuke forever xbox live enabled heh does anyone else here see this as a joke

#7 JediXAngel on 05 Sep 2003 - 19:25

Wait, do you still need to buy the $50 Live! w/ headset?

If not, can you use any headsets or what? I am confused

Or, is it one of the conditions, you can use it, just without headset?

Like StarWars: KOTOR for example can it work? No?

Last edited by 5376 on 05 Sep 2003 - 19:32

#8 JediXAngel on 05 Sep 2003 - 19:30

>aside from the mic I'd pay $40 for that.<

Dude, u can get a lot of Mics for under $40

Anything special about this Mic/headset?

#9 Simplex on 05 Sep 2003 - 21:18

This is Microsoft's way to update the dashboard and bios to fix all the known bugs and try and lock out some of the stupider modchippers. Beware.

#10 xSuRgEx on 06 Sep 2003 - 06:08

i think you only get a trail "access" to xbox live with any of thoes games, i think you might need to have a head set already.
i cant realy see microsoft giving away free headsets and stuff with other companys games and even there own games. sorry if iam worng.

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