Basically to prepare for Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter, Zune Marketplace conversion, etc. which should be rolling out either in August or the "Fall".  Same thing happened last year to prepare for the NXE, actually.

I always have to work and almost can never go online with my Xbox 360 in the week and now when I am sick and have some time to play online it is down (got some points aswell for COD WaW).

oh well, guess I should keep playing cod before it shuts out

It is already out, atleast for me.

Funny coinicidence, I thought about starting it myself given the downtime.

The one day I decide to take my 360 out of my duffel bag and brush off Halo 3...and Live is down.

Fuck me

Good thing for me I don't have my 360 hooked up to the net. Time for sum Fable 2!

The Uncharted Beta will get more playtime online, maybe follow it with Final Fantasy 7. CoD 4 can wait for 24 hours.

What a coincidence....

Still waiting for those Japan sales of 360's to drop below 1500

Huh? I dunno if that was a joke or something...but I've legitimately not played my 360 for a while, and I wanted to today.....only to see this news