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So I was surfing Youtube for my latest and greatest music videos when I got the urge to see if anyone had posted some interesting videos on Rockband.

Rock Band Drums on the PC.

To my suprise I found this dude had put together an app to use your drums that are included with the Rockband game on you pc.  This is so cool. I can now play the drums record my session and share it with the world via Youtube or your favorite video site. Another great how to get windows xp to recognize your usb drumset head on over to Matt Hackmanns Blog.

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Remember when I talked about a free game will be given out for lack  of network performance from Microsoft? Well without much fanfare Microsoft decided the game: "Undertow"  would be the freebie. I understand that the game will only be available until tomorrow **unconfirmed**.  So get it fast before its not free.

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Xbox LIVE Holiday Performance

As many of you know, I have been keeping you up to date on the status of Xbox LIVE. Here is an official message from Marc Whitten (Notwen) GM of Xbox LIVE on where we are and what we are going to do. Again, thanks for your patience.

Dear Xbox LIVE Members:                                                                                                    

During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records.  This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service. 

As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break.  While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance.  I would like to take this moment to thank each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state. 

At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service.  And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge.  In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you. 

Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today! 

Sincerely,

Marc Whitten

General Manager, Xbox LIVE

Gamertag: Notwen

Sweet Cannot wait.

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  As you all know I love the Xbox360 especially the party games such as Halo3 and Guitar Hero 3. So naturally when I walked by the Gamestop in my local mall I noticed this large black box with big bold lettering "RockBand" and wow I was interested. I inquired within(Gamestop). Found a setup that matched my console(Xbox360) and inquired about the cost. $180 seemed quite steep but it came with the drums and microphone. What really sold it for me was how excited my wife was to play it.

So I brought it home. Unboxed the components and sure enough there was all the greatness that I paid for sitting inside. I hurried and setup the drums and pulled out the guitar as well as my Guitar hero guitar(because it works with this also *Bonus*) Turned on the Game and all the components lit up on the green circle of xbox360 love except the microphone.

After close examination I was very concerned it was yet another Logitech device. Grrr! So I looked within the box maybe I missed some documentation on setting up the microphone cause it was still dysfunctional. I did come across the pink paper entitled: "Stop Please don’t return any Rock Band Hardware...."

I went to the support page: http://support.ea.com/rockband . No answers there either. I contacted the support number on the web site and waited 2 hours to talk to someone that had to explain that I needed a xbox360 controller turned on with the microphone to make it work.

So the whole reason for this was to let all those who are frustrated with the microphone like me. Calm down, relax. You now know how to work the blessed microphone  with the Xbox360. EA needs better than no instructions on how to make the microphone work.

Rock ON!

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I know, I know I love google too. However I am also a microsoft junkie. Never did like msn search much. I do however love Tafiti.com maybe cause it reminds me of tahiti somehow. Anyway the coolest looking search engine tafiti has gone halo 3 check it out and the screenshots.

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