GamerScore Cheaters & More
Lots of news already for today, and we still have the revealing of the third and final Halo 3 map in the upcoming Legendary Map Pack coming tonight!
The Halo 3 Heroic Map Pack is now available for free from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Microsoft today busted some of the GamerScore cheaters out there in the Xbox Live community, and what they’ve done to these people is hilarious, here are the details:
Today we took action on some of the accounts we have identified as the most serious offenders who have violated the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use by tampering with their GamerScore and Achievements.
The steps today takes the form of the following:
• Resetting the entire GamerScore for an account to zero
• The account will be unable to regain all previously obtained achievements and GamerScore, however, the players will have the ability to gain future Achievements by earning them fairly, like the majority of the Xbox LIVE community does.
• The account will be clearly labeled as a cheater for the community to view on xbox.com. You can see an example here. In dash, the personal view of the gamercard will be labeled as well.
Xbox LIVE remains committed to keeping the service free of cheating in order to maintain a fair and level playing field for everyone. To read more about GamerScore corrections read the FAQ on Xbox.com
In other news, the Arcade game Switchball is being re-released tomorrow and will be getting an upgrade in visuals and in smoother gameplay. Switchball was a fun game that I got a little over half-way through, and was just thinking a couple days ago how I should go back to it. The next day, the news of this upgrade hit, and now I have even more reason to go back to it. It’s an awesome game, so make sure to at least check out the demo of it on Xbox Live Arcade.
Rock Band also received a large amount of songs today, a 6-song pack of Boston. For 800 points you get the following songs:
More Than A Feeling
Peace of Mind
Smokin
Rock & Roll Band
Something About You
Hitch A Ride