Continuing the 10th Anniversary celebrations of Xbox Live, Microsoft releases a bunch of stats that's been accumulated ever since the service started in 2002.
Besides offering a free Kinect game yesterday and select XBLA games being 50% off, most of the other details regarded achievements and friends lists.
In terms of achievements, over 4.5 billion achievements have been unlocked generating over 270 billion in gamerscore value. In terms of friends lists, over 122 million accounts have been linked together using those lists.
Major Nelson himself released several images and audio clips regarding previous versions of the Xbox dashboard during the same 10 year span.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-insane-stats/
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Daily Recap:
* Shigeru Miyamoto celebrates his 60th birthday today with the next milestone being at 65 years old when he can decide on retirement based on Japanese labor laws.
http://www.destructoid.com/ol-grunkl...y-238758.phtml
* Rockstar announces GTA Vice City has been pulled from Steam and other digital services due to a recent legal dispute with Sony Music Entertainment over a song in the game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...music-dispute/
* PS Vita has another record-low setting week in Japan with this time the 3DS outselling the Vita by a ratio of around 47-to-1. The 3DS itself is already close to reaching the PS3's lifetime sales in Japan.
http://www.destructoid.com/3ds-outso...n-238770.phtml