After hearing news of the ban hammer getting thrown around on hacked Xbox’s, preventing users of said ‘boxes from using Xbox live ever again on the hacked machine as well as a few other not so special treats left many heading straight to eBay. Don’t be so hasty now. Do you not have faith in the very people that helped you get to the hacked and open state of your ‘box in the first place? You should know that the hacking community is extremely...

Talk about fast development, just yesterday we got word that Microsoft was banning all modded Xboxes from Live services and were speculating as to how long the ban would be in effect and how accused gamers could go about reinstating their account. Today Microsoft told BBC that banned ‘boxes are gone…forever. So much for longevity by modding your system. In order to reinstate your Xbox live account, you’ll have to back it up onto a new, un-modified Xbox...

Microsoft giving the ‘ol ban hammer to Xbox live users for various reasons is nothing new. Though banning over 1,000,000 users because they’re running hacked or modded hardware is certainly a deviation from the norm. The whole problem with modded 360′s is it allows end users to circumnavigate the many layers of DRM in use by the Xbox software. Obviously game developers have a problem with this as games are then easily copied and saved to the device sans...