Weekly Roundup: DRM Free Edition

Photo of Robert Allen Robert AllenJune 27, 2008
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– If you’ve had the unfortunate experience of seeing the red
ring of death on your Xbox 360, and have had your system replaced or
refurbished, you probably discovered the dreaded DRM woes. Any titles
downloaded from the Marketplace won’t function if you aren’t connected to the
internet. Luckily, Microsoft has a simple fix for you. Additionally, Major Nelson can walk you through the process. Basically, you log in to Microsoft’s site with your
gamertag, where you will see a list of all the content you’ve downloaded. Next,
you turn on your working Xbox, which tells the site what console to transfer
your licenses to.Finally, redownload any titles that have given you DRM
issues. We found the process easy, yet depressing- the site reminded us we’ve
gone through nine consoles in three short years.How about you?

– News or Rumor? A report surfaced that God of War 3 will be
shown at E3 next month.

– Still hurting from the purchase price of your PS3? So is
Sony, to the tune of 3.3 billion dollars. Some speculate that the PS3 hardware may never be profitable for the company.

– For 360 owners, the Xbox Live Marketplace has two new demos- Top Spin 3, and Lego Indiana Jones. But, you already read our review of the latter, didn’t you?

– Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 for the 360 was given a title update that adds three multiplayer maps, ranks, and a new option for a versus match. A extremely choppy video with all the additions can be found here.

Photo of Robert Allen Robert AllenJune 27, 2008
23 470 1 minute read
Photo of Robert Allen

Robert Allen

Since being a toddler, Robert Allen has been immersed in video games, anime, and tokusatsu. Currently, his days are spent teaching at two southern California colleges. But his evenings and weekends are filled with STGs, RPGs, and action titles and well at writing for Tech-Gaming since 2007.

23 Comments

  3. How could they lose 3.3 Billion on the PS3. They’ve sold 11 million units? They lost 300 dollars on each?

  6. Well, Microsoft has lost a billion on red-ringed 360s.

    And India gained a good portion of that billion dollars.

  8. Played Indy Demo, it’s like crack. I’ll buy full game on the way home tonight.

  11. 3.3 billion is probably the amount they paid Warner Bros. to fuck Toshiba right before CES and win the high def war. Blu-ray might have won the battle, but they already lost the war. The delivery system of the future will be digital downloads.

  15. Out of all my friends with 360’s no one has their original one.

    I’ve gone through three of them, before getting an elite.

  16. Watch out, this can only be done once every 12 months. I believe the life expectancy of a 360 is significantly shorter than that.

  20. and if you see the Joystiq guys, punch them for editing out my comments. Till they bleed out their belly button.

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