the problem i had was the marketplace was totally unavailable, due to some corrupted marketplace file in the hard drive. refer to my post here on how to fix that.

however, this doesn't solve the "This item is not available in your location" problem. i believe that's from the content lockdown they implemented recently. i dont think there's any workaround for this as they are blocking based on IP region (well actually u can do IP tunneling, but i dont know how and i'm not bothering it)

on my xbox (i'm using a US account btw), items that are affected by this are mostly in the video marketplace (movie, tv shows, music videos & trailers), no biggie, but i'll miss those HD+5.1 trailers . i've managed to download "US only" releases like Aegis Wing and Ocean's 13 Theme & Picture (i find this relevant because Ocean's 13 trailer is protected & not available to us), therefore i can safely assume that this content lockdown only affect video marketplace items, not game items, themes & gamerpics.

i haven't seen this in action in other region marketplace so far. i downloaded a music video (guess which one?) from SG video marketplace last night and downloading Trusty Bell/Eternal Sonata demo from JP marketplace right now...

*edit: oops.. i can't be so sure yet, didnt try download a game demo from US marketplace yet. will try that and report back...

Guys, please add my new friend gamertag SpectralVyper. John add him to the list please. Thanks

Prince of Persia is out on the marketplace

Yuya finally got a friend who works on the inside to give a me graph/ stats on users & games worldwide? There's aso a breakdown on GH 2 games. Maybe that can enlighten you.

Total Xbox 360 Users 1,524,263

1. 823877 American users (54%)
2. 205464 United Kingdom users (13.4%)
3. 78493 Canadian users (5.1%)
4. 48414 'Unknown' users (3.1%)
5. 48069 Japanese users (3.1%)
6. 46327 French users (3.03%)
7. 43320 German users (2.84%)
8. 27009 Dutch users (1.77%)
9. 25075 Spanish users (1.64%)
10. 22908 Australian users (1.5%)
11. 21998 Mexican users (1.44%)
12. 21409 Italian users (1.40%)
13. 14301 Swedish users (0.93%)
14. 11572 Hong Kong users (0.75%)
15. 10957 South Korean users (0.71%)
16. 8432 Norwegian users (0.55%)
17. 7840 Belgian users (0.5%)
18. 6701 Irish users (0.43%)
19. 6576 Taiwanese users (0.43%)
20. 6553 Swiss users (0.42%)
21. 5727 Finnish users (0.37%)
22. 5621 Danish users (0.36%)
23. 4987 Austrian users (0.3%)
24. 3608 New Zealand users (0.23%)
25. 3255 Singaporean users (0.21%)
26. 3016 Polish users (0.19%)
27. 2676 Portuguese users (0.17%)
28. 2394 Brazilian users (0.15%)
29. 1810 South African users (0.11%)
30. 1366 Colombian users (0.08%)
31. 1141 Greek users (0.07%)
32. 968 Hungarian users (0.06%)
33. 783 Czech users (0.05%)
34. 782 Chilean users (0.05%)
35. 400 Indian users (0.02%)
36. 343 Slovak users (0.02%)

ok guys, i need some help here. Its been 4 days now that my LIVE BLADE KEEPS ON LOADING and in the end nothing happen.. it says connect to Xbox LIVE.

But the strange thing is that i am connected. I can chat and view online friends but my LIVE blade is not display. This is happening to my LIVE blade, Marketplace Blade and Games Blade.

ANyone experience the same thing as i am right now....

go to xbox.com > Login > My Xbox > Accounts > Edit Payment Options.

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once u reload using card
cc will automatically off

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once u reload using card
cc will automatically off