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Spartan 117:

Can you use USB drives and alternate hard drives as memory units? The Xbox ones are pricey... ...

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An Xbox 360 won't recognize a USB flash drive or another external hard drive as a memory unit, so you can't save...MORE

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"Something really irks me about people who own a major console and buy maybe a few big-name games a year and that's IT...then call themselves serious gamers. "

Posted on: May 07, 2009

Wanna Bet?

WORDS BY: Corey Cohen

When leaderboards aren’t enough, two OXM editors vie for the biggest prize of all: money. Join us as we gamble our way across Xbox Live!

We both knew this war was coming. For ages now, Dan has been my office nemesis — the Dwight to my Jim, the Eddie Brock to my Peter Parker. Every day our piles of game gear compete for room on our shared deskspace, while we compete like crazed maniacs every time a new multiplayer game comes in. Truth is, each of us needs to know: I’m better.

So when Dan trumpeted his TEMPORARY lead in Gamerscore to the whole world (see chart, page 92) — and those all-caps better not be edited out by a certain colleague! — that was it. It was on. Time for the ultimate showdown, to determine the superior gamer. And I knew just how to sweeten the stakes: we’d use a new online service, BringIt, to bet beautiful, precious cash on each of our games. We’d be battling for glory and money... the perfect competition!

The Warm Up

Before the soul-crushing could commence, we had to pick our battlegrounds. Which games? As it turns out, using BringIt made the selection process a lot easier: at press time, the service supports just 17 Xbox 360 titles. (See sidebar for more information on BringIt, including its legality.) Minimum deposit is $10, so Dan and I signed up and deposited $25 in our respective accounts. Now all we had to do was issue challenges to each other via BringIt.com’s messaging feature, and we were ready to go!