Xbox Live Gold members who still haven’t checked out the well reviewed Braid now have more reasons to get the hit game. Beginning last February 23, Gold members will get a discount if they buy the game. This is part of the new program of providing discounts on different content every week. The discount can be applied to Arcade games, Xbox Originals and Game Add-ons.

Braid, which usually goes for 1200 points will now be made available for only 800 points for Gold members in all regions. That’s a big 33 percent savings.

Hurry up and get it before they change the discount.

Xbox 360 gamers who play online are complaining about the growing number of hackers who are spoiling the fun of online gaming. According to reports, hackers are now using data flooding tools to boout players out of the service. The reason for doing this? Retaliation if they get beaten in games like Halo 3.

Hackers are allegedly using attacks similar to denial of service attacks in order to identify the IP addresses of the users hosting the games and then booting them out of the servers. Identification of the IP addreses are done through a number of methods including packet sniffers.

Microsoft has issued a statement that it wil lbe investigating the said attacks and promising to ban users proven to be the culprits.