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Microsoft to Pull Original XBox from XBox Live April 15th

Engadget is reporting that Microsoft has just announced that as of April 15th, original XBox titles will no longer work with the XBox Live service. Now that XBox Live users have a firm date for when the XBox v1 games will cease working with the service, rumors are already circulating around what Microsoft will announce in the coming days during their X10 event in San Francisco.

It's been no secret that original Xbox games have been the vestigial limb holding back much wanted features including raising the limit on our friends list to over 100 or mobile tie-ins, and on April 15 all that will come to an end. Even those Xbox Originals downloaded to the 360 or played via backwards compatibility will be cut off, so we'd suggest getting those last few rounds of Halo 2 in now or at least look into an alternative solution like XBConnect. Affected users should keep an eye on their inbox, Xbox Live GM Marc Whitten has promised "details and opportunities" to come for you as partners in this process -- we're figuring a coupon or two or an extended XBL subscription as the lights are turned out is the least they can do.

Engadget

Posted by | Fri, Feb 05, 2010 - 08:11 AM