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I’m not a big gamer, but I do have an Xbox 360 and there may be some video evidence on the ‘net of me sampling a game or two at an MVP event a few years back…<\/p>\n

\"\"These days, much of the console’s use is from my children and, last weekend, my 9 year-old son was keen to buy Minecraft for the Xbox 360<\/a> after spotting it on sale in Sainsbury’s. \u00a0After coming home and researching, including prices elsewhere, we decided that it was a good deal and I took him back the next day to buy a copy. \u00a0One happy little boy.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, when we got home, I was having difficulty installing the game on the Xbox’s hard drive<\/a>. I do this to avoid wear and tear on the DVD drive in the Xbox, as well as to keep down the noise whilst playing. I expect to supply the optical media to verify that we have a copy (for any piracy purposes) but, from then on, our games run from from the hard drive.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that option didn’t seem to be available for Minecraft and it seems that it’s the same for all Xbox Live Arcade games<\/a>. Ludicrous – bizarrely it’s possible to buy the game online and download it to the Xbox via that route (and it would have saved some of my son’s pocket money)! \u00a0Unfortunately I don’t think this counts as “faulty” for return to the retailer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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