Our faithful Xbox 360 has crossed the 26,000 gamerscore mark tonight – the plateau from this fall/winter has been broken and we’re totally back in the game.
JG
Our faithful Xbox 360 has crossed the 26,000 gamerscore mark tonight – the plateau from this fall/winter has been broken and we’re totally back in the game.
JG

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lol … wow … I was all pumped because I just broke 5000 the other week! Only took me two years!
Ahhhh, I miss my gamerscore… I miss my XBox 360… About 9 months ago my wife and I were struggling a bit financially and I had to make the tough call between the rock-solid and fun Wii, and the XBox 360 that was on the fritz for the second time and would cost us money to get fixed. I was okay for a long time, but I’ve really missed it the last couple of months…
dude,
i thought you gave up games…….