Are you looking to extend your Xbox Live memberber, to create a second account for a friend, or to get free microsoft points to spend in the Xbox Live Marketplace on map packs or full games? You can do all of the above quickly, easily, and absolutely free. This is the easiest way of earning free microsoft points or an Xbox Live Membership and will only take you around thirty minutes of your time before you receive your prize.

The first this you will need to do is sign up for your account. Head on over to the Rewards site to sign up for your free account that will be credited with points. I suggest creating a free yahoo email to use in the easy surveys you can take. This will divert all spam mail to another email address of yours and you’ll never have to deal with it ever again.

Once you have an account set up, head on over to the site and log in. Click on the offers and then on free offers. These offers are pretty easy to complete. Some of them, all you have to do is enter your email and an address and you are credited for them and a step closer to your free microsoft points. Once you receive 2000 points you can request your 1,600 free microsoft points or if you wait until you’re at 5000 points you can request your 4,000 free microsoft points. With only 800 points you can get a 1 month xbox live gold card for free.

I have received countless free microsoft points cards and xbox live accounts over the last few months. In fact, some of my better months I received well over 40,000 points! I enjoy the freedom of the Xbox Live Marketplace, especially when I have 10,000 microsoft points on my gamertag that I can spend.

If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask! Comment about your success with this site, along with different games you’ve gotten from your free microsoft points. I’m always looking for new games to download.

“I can’t comment on any future plans for our ODSTs,” said Joseph Statten. “But it would be a shame if we made a game about the planet Reach — a place where Buck, the ODST’s squad leader, was known to be — and not have him appear in some way shape or form…”

So it is pretty much guaranteed that Nathon Fillion will be playing a role as Buck in Halo: Reach. It is just not said how big this role will be.

25. Dead Space
24. Lost Odyssey
23. Dead Rising
22. Shadow Complex
21. NHL ‘10
20. Modern Warfare 2
19. Virtua Fighter 5 Online
18. Left 4 Dead
17. FIFA ‘10
16. Forza 3
15. Rock Band 2
14. Geometry Wars
13. Borderlands
12. Halo Wars
11. Halo 3: ODST
10. Gears of War
9. Braid
8. BioShock
7. The Orange Box
6. Halo 3
5. Grand Theft Auto IV
4. Oblivion
3. Fallout 3
2. Modern Warfare
1. Mass Effect

All of you probably have different views on what games should be on the top twenty five list. Maybe there are games on this list that you haven’t played yet. Well if there is, then you should look into playing them since you will probably like them considering it is from the top Xbox games list. If the decision was yours, would you change anything about the order of the list or would you add any new songs? Or do you totally agree with this list?

• Multiplayer: There is the chance to play in multiplayer modes with up to four people and this can also be online. Along with your team mates, create strategies to taunt your enemies in the various team or vs. multiplayer modes.
• New commanders unit: You now have the ability to pick a commander who will lead your forces in multiplayer mode. In doing this, you will be allowed to choose from up to 20 unique abilities.
• Various command views: Experience this game in many different views. Use the overhead map view to make strategies. Watch glorious battles happen with cinemagic camera action.
• Leaderboards: The leaderboard is detailed in stat tracking. Make your way to the top in the rankings as you do your best to try and prove to others that you are the best gamer of Military Madness: Nectaris.

Jamie Jackson, the creative director of DJ Hero, was asked by the website “Destructoid” whether or not the DJ Hero controller would work with any other game. Jamie Jackson responded with a quite obvious answer by saying, “DJ Hero is DJ Hero. If someone needed to use our controller, then they would basically have to rip our game off.”

After all, the only other DJ game that I can think of is Scratch: The Ultimate DJ. Both the controller and the gameplay are completely different from each other so it makes sense that as of right now, it looks like the DJ Hero controller will not be used for any other games.

The following are some features that are included in this game:

Adventures in space: Battle aliens using a unique fluid and particle system.
Different varieties of play: Test your skills all the way through twenty levels using four different settings each with lavish graphics.
Upgrades: Earn a variety of upgrades for your spaceships. Get upgrades such as augmented speed or increase radius used for collecting surrounding particles.
Different modes of play: Play various multiplayer modes including cooperative, arena, or harvest. Play these with up to four players.
Power-ups: Collect a variety special power-ups such as the Black Hole. Each power-up is only usable for a limited amount of time though so use it wisely.
International flavor: Ion Assault is the first ever Xbox Live Arcade game to be developed in Germany.

Pearl Jam is a very good alternative rock band that joined together in Seattle in the year of 1990. This band consists of members Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Matt Cameron. All together, the band has sold many more than 60 million records around the entire globe.

Not only are they releasing this album, “Backspacer”, to Rock Band, Pearl Jam will offer a special edition CD that will be available at Target stores nationwide which will include the Backspaceralbum disc and also a special code enabling owners of the special edition CD to download the entire album for Rock Band or Rock Band 2 gameplay. One great thing is that the songs will be imported into the Rock Band player’s library. This is going to make these songs available in each of the game modes including solo, band play, online multiplayer and instrument vs. instrument.

Track Listing
If you would like to buy the entire Backspacer album it is available to you for 1440 Microsoft Points. You can also buy just one individual track which is available at 160 Microsoft Points each. The following is a list of the songs:

• “Gonna See My Friend”
• “Got Some”
• “The Fixer”
• “Johnny Guitar”
• “Just Breathe”
• “Amongst the Waves”
• “Unthought Known”
• “Supersonic”
• “Speed of Sound”
• “Force of Nature”
• “The End”

This rumor will most likely simply remain a claim for quite a long time. However, when the word of Microsoft’s possible deal reached the public, Electronic Arts received a 4 percent boost in sales which suggests that this deal would be very big for Microsoft if it happens. I can’t even start to think about how huge this deal would be. With Microsoft in control, there would be Xbox exclusives for Electronic Arts which would definitely boost the Microsoft sales.

However, until one of these companies, either Microsoft or Electronic Arts, is albe to announce it to be made official, it is not worth even getting worked up about. If this were really to happen, it would probably not be any time in the very near future.

When this rumor was first spread, an Electronic Arts representative was supposedly not available to make any comments. Also, a Microsoft representative declined to comment on the deal. Also, recently an Electronic Arts representative said, ”We do not comment on speculation about our business.”

Skull names and effects:

Gold skulls:

1: Iron: effect is if you get killed you have to restart the level.

2: Black Eye: effect is the only way for your shields to regenerate is to melee an enemy.

3: Tough Luck: Your enemies never run away, always make good grenade throws, and always attack you.

4: Catch: Your enemies throw a-lot of grenades.

5: Fog: You lose your motion sensor.

6: Famine: Enemies drop half the ammo they usually drop.

7: Thunderstorm: All enemies are given a field promotion, and ranked up to their next available level.

8: Tilt: Makes enemy resistance much greater.

9: Mythic: All enemies have double their usual health.

Silver Skulls:

1: Blind: You lose your HUD when this skull turned on. You won’t see your weapons, shield, radar, etc.

2: Grunt Birthday Party: When you get a headshot on an enemy grunt, they will explode into confetti, and you’ll hear children cheer, “yay!” in excitement.

3: Cowbell: Explosions become much bigger in the game.

4: IWHBYD (I would have been your daddy): Unlocks hidden dialogue throughout Halo 3’s campaign.

Mythic Skulls:

1: Assembly: no effect

2: Sandbox: no effect

3: Orbital: no effect

Skull Locations:

When obtaining the skulls you have to start the level from the beginning, you can’t load checkpoints or the skull will not appear.

Gold skulls:

Iron: You can find the iron skull at the end of the very first level Sierra 117. It is behind the building Sgt. Johnson is held by the Brutes, up on the roof. You can get onto the roof at the far right side of the building. Travel to the left side of the roof to find the iron skull.

Black eye: The Black eye skull can be located at the very beginning of the second level.  Their are pipes hanging from the roof, on these pipes is the black eye skull.  Its on the pipe nearest to the large screen. You can gain access to the pipes a few different ways.

Tough luck: The tough luck skull is on the third level when the huge covenant cruiser flies above you. To your right is some large piping following the road you are walking on.  Under this piping are support beams that go over a cliff. Jump over to the first of these beams and go to the end of it. Look to the left and the tough luck skull will be sitting on top of a rock, jump over to it and you’ve got the tough luck skull.

Catch: The catch skull can be found on the fourth level, in the first area where you have to destroy the Wraiths, when you enter the area do not eiliminate the wraiths, because the skull disappears when they’re destroyed. The skull is located on top of the circular building next to the anti air wraith, you can access the skull by grenade jumping or jumping on the back of a warthog.

Fog: The fog skull can be found on the 5th level, near the beginning of the level, as you are walking down from the anti-air gun you destroyed you encounter a ramp. You will hit a checkpoint and hear a marine yell out “there! over there!”

You only have a short period in which to obtain the skull, look up towards the right of the alley, there will be a flood jumping across the alley, you have to kill him before he jumps, because he is holding the fog skull. If you kill him too early the skull will get stuck on the roof,  you have to time it just right, wait til hes directly over the alley, if you succeeded the skull will drop to the ground and you can retrieve it, if you failed don’t worry because you can just reload the checkpoint and try again. Don’t get discouraged if it takes you a few tries because its not easy to time it right, but you’ll get it eventually.

Famine Tactic 1: The famine skull can be found on the sixth level, where the path breaks into two paths, the one leading to the area where the tanks cross the bridge, and the path where you meet up with your frigate.  Take the path that leads to the frigate and you’ll see a structure to your left, there will be a few ghosts near the structure.

You start by scaling the rocks to the right of the structure, and travel across it so that you pass 3 of the large support beams extending into the cliffs. Inside the fourth support beam contains the Famine skull, grenade jump to it and your done!

Famine Tactic 2: You need to hijack a brute chopper to do this tactic, when you have head back to the structure and drive it up onto the rocks next to the structure, to the right. and jump the ledge with the chopper. Position the chopper next to the fourth column and jump on the chopper and then onto the column.

Thunderstorm: The thunderstorm skull is located on the 7th level, right at the part where you get control of one of the hornets. Fly to the second force field generator, the one the Arbiter disabled and land. The skull can be found at the top of the ramp, not the entrance.

Tilt: The tilt skull is on the 8th level in the circular room where cortana starts talking to you about that she “likes to play games too…”.

Getting to the skull is somewhat hard, it requires very well timed jumps. When you enter the room head left where you see some mushrooms along the wall. Jump onto the top of these and then look up and to the right for another mushroom to jump to. Now just jump to the top of the ceiling of the room, where the tilt skull is located.

Mythic: This is the easiest skull to get, because it is located in the very beginning of the last level. Begin by heading into the canyon, but hang by the right wall. You will notice that there is a turn to the right that is off the normal trail. Head down this path, and the final golden skull will be sitting there.

Silver Skulls:

Silver skulls do not have achievements, so don’t worry if you don’t see an achievement pop up.

Blind: The blind skull is located on the first level Sierra 117, Once you kill the golden armored brutes two enemy ships will appear a little bit down the stream go towards the farthest away ship towards the cliff edge. Go to the very right and then you will see a rock jutting out over the large lake, the blind skull is found here.
Grunt Birthday Party: This is my personal favorite skull, it can be found on the second mission, right before you meet up with the the Arbiter, the piping area where drones are buzzing past you. Right before you jump down the pipe to meet up with the Arbiter, stop at the edge and look below you. There is a small ledge, jump down onto this edge and go inside the secret room, the skull is found in middle of the room.

Cowbell: The cowbell skull is found on the level The Ark, its pretty far into the level and it takes a little time to find it.

Start off by headng to the point of the level where you battle the scarab, in the middle of this dessert area your fighting it in is a somewhat large structure, grab one of the grav lifts in the structure and take down the scarab. Now head into the building that you meet up with the arbiter and go into the room with explosive crates, right after this room is a staircase/hallway that leads to a level below. The skull is located at the top of the room, position the grav lift to where you can reach the top platform where the skull is located.

IWHBYD: The skull is located on the level The Covenant. After defeating the scarabs and teaming up with the flood, fight your way to the profit of truth and kill him, then the flood will turn on you and once you have killed all of the flood head back to the entrance where you came into the building. You must jump through the rings in a specific order. The order of the rings is 1 being the entrance and 7 being the ring closest to the prophet of truth.

The order of the rings to jump through is 4 6 5 4 5 3 4

Note if you did it right the rings will start to glow and blink, the skull will appear near the prophet of truth.

Mythic Skulls:

The mythic skulls can be found on the 3 new maps that can be purchased at the Xbox live marketplace.

Assembly: To find the assembly skull, go into forge mode and load up the assembly map, the skull can be found on one of the two huge arms extending out from the center piece of the map, and you’ll find the skull.

Sandbox: You can simply download this map, in which you simply spawn next to the skull. Or you can create a path towards the skull, which is located to the right of the sunset.

Map: http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=68956613

Orbital: To get the skull simply open up forge and load the map, the skull is located down the blue corridor, towards the red door and into the next room. Face the red door you just entered and switch into monitor mode. Fly towards the top of the room facing this direction, the skull will be in the right corner of a small ledge, simply look around a bit.

I hope this helps you in finding those pesky skulls, and look out for my next guide!