Celebrating the fifth year of Xbox LIVE service, Microsoft is offering up a free download. The LIVE Arcade title
Carcassonne will be available for only 48 hours, starting 12:01AM PST November 15, and ending 11:59PM PST Nov. 16. Also, if you have been a member of the Xbox LIVE community since 2002, you will receive an additional gift from Microsoft of 500 MS points, free.
This comes with the news of the Xbox original titles to be offered after the December 4th fall update. The only titles mentioned so far (for the U.S. at least) are
Halo,
Crimson Skies,
Fable,
Psychonauts, with others planned for future releases priced at 1200 MS points.
Play and Win. The big GIMME GIMME event being held is the
Xbox LIVE is 5IVE Play & Win Sweepstakes. Players who register their gamertags and play on Xbox LIVE on Nov. 15 will be entered to win free prizes.
Game with Fame. The other gamer treat is the opportunity to play against the development teams from a number of games on their own turf. These games will be hosted throughout the day of November 15th, so check out the
schedule for times.
UPDATEXbox.com currently lists as the first Xbox original dowloads (for the U.S.) as being:
Burnout 3: Takedown,
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex,
Crimson Skies,
Fable,
Fuzion Frenzy,
Halo, and
Psychonauts. Also, there will be no achievements.
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Carcassone is an excellent board game!
I'm going to be all over this one! An 800 point game for FREE!
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I wish Sony would give us free games like that. 
Though they did give us Calling All Cars for half price a few weeks ago, which was amazing.
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Awesome news!
I've been a member of Xbox Live for 5 years!?!
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wow a game i already own! not that it matters as everyone outside the USA gets sod all for free anyway!
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Hey captain_N, you might wanna check this one out. I guess there's a few hoops you might have to jump through to get those 500 MS points. Sorry dude.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/11/16/how-to-get-your-500-point-live-is-5ive-present/
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The free download should be closed by now. I'm sorry if you missed out.
Carcassonne, like Aegis Wing, turned out to be a good game. I wish I could say the same for Yaris.
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Downloaded it, have yet to play it though. From all the positive feedback about I'll try it out. Microsoft should have given us free access to the expansions or discounts on them. Now if they would allow full 360 game downloads through Live...an Xbox 720 eighth gen feature?
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it's thinking