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Microsoft Fights Back Against Gamers Who Allegedly Stole Xbox Currency
After some gamers took advantage of an exploit that automatically produced codes for Microsoft Points — e-currency that's used on Xbox Live purchases — Microsoft invalidated the points and may punish those who took advantage. More »

Microsoft Stops Carnival Trickery, Sells Online Currency In Regular Increments
Microsoft used to pull the old carnival trick while selling you Microsoft points, having you buy them in 1,000 point ($12.50) increments to buy a game that costs 800 points ($10). You'd end up with some left over, which you'd feel as though you were wasting unless you re-upped and bought more games to reduce your balance to zero. Now that's changed, Kotaku reports: Microsoft lets you buy them in 400 point increments. More »

UPDATED: Microsoft Will Let You Download Games With 360 Currency It Sells You, CSRs Told Me Otherwise

—>Dork that I am, I got giddy when I heard Microsoft would start selling full downloads of retail Xbox 360 games to hard drives under the new Games on Demand banner. I bought $60 worth of Microsoft points in order to download Call of Duty 2 and Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga.  More »