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Original Xbox Live is dead

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Do you hear that? That's the life-support machine for Xbox Live for the original Xbox giving away. Time of death: 23:48pm BST.

Here's the tweet from Director of Policy and Enforcement for Live on 360 Stephen Toulose that confirmed the news:

"Remember that old 'banned' European xbox commercial? Sad moment guys, the baby just landed in the grave. So long xbox 1 LIVE"

We've been told, however, this is for the US so far. European Live servers are still alive and running.

The service was due to go down at midnight PST, which was 8:00am BST yesterday morning, but people kept trucking on and playing Halo 2 until the sun didn't shine upon the Chief no more.

And that is all she wrote. Now we return to normal programing.

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Johnny Cullen

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Johnny has experience at a wide range of games media outlets, having written for Eurogamer, Play Magazine, PC Gamer, GameDaily, and more. He worked at VG247 pumping out news at an astonishing rate for several years. More recently, he founded the games website PlayDiaries.

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