Xbox Live Compensates Gamers With Free Game

The evil empire’s online gaming service, Xbox Live, has been plagued with all sorts of problems for several days now, and they are now ponying up to all of the disgruntled gamers, 8 million of them worldwide, by offering a downloadable game.

Xbox Live General Manager Mark Whitten said that the problem stemmed from a massive increase in new users who got there shinny new units for Christmas. Convenient excuse or just not prepared, what do you think?

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