On 12 January 2012, my account on Xbox Live was hacked like many others in order for the hacker to use my Microsoft points to purchase content for FIFA '12 for him/herself. I had about 2200 points stolen, so my balance was wiped clean. I had called Microsoft to report this and they started an investigation. Today, I got an email telling me the investigation was complete and that they provided codes in the email for two months of Xbox Live Gold and the 2200 points returned.
I'm incredibly pleased with Microsoft's support and quick investigation - previously to my dissatisfaction, I was told the investigation would take up to 12 days to complete. I wondered why it would take so long just to investigate, but then I considered they must have had a queue of investigations to complete. But lo and behold, they finished it in about 5 or 6 days. I am quite happy about it.
So with that being said, I'm back to gaming online and otherwise, and I will update the blog with my latest venture.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
did you put your credit card info in before it was hacked?
You didn't put your account info on a suspicious website, did you?