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Isn’t it great when an Xbox 360 advert reminds you of Little Big Planet on the Playstation 3: http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/live/bestoflive/connectnow.htm

It is a great tune though and it’s called Get It Together by The Go! Team.

The original album: Thunder, Lightning, Strike is well worth picking up too!

I had a bit of bad luck followed by a bit of really good luck the other week.

My XBox 360 DVD drive had been reporting intermittent “unreadable disc” errors on random discs for the past few weeks. I’d been persevering with it but it was the final straw when I bought Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 and it said there was a fault with an absolutely pristine disc.

With a sigh I trundled off to register the console for repair on the XBox site. I tapped my serial number into the site and Microsoft said the console was already out of standard warranty! Huh! I’d only had the thing six months so this was slightly annoying to say the least. I couldn’t ring them either as it was a Sunday.

Plan B. I’d bought it from Sainsbury’s and I had the receipt so I thought I’d just take it back there. Result! Swapped it over with no arguments and actually gave me an brand new black 120GB Elite in exchange for a dusty old broken cream 60GB Premium.

I had to sacrifice my hard earned save games but an extra 60GB of hard drive space for nowt was worth it. My warranty is also reset to 12 months again and this time the Microsoft site agrees!

It doesn’t happen very often but it’s nice when it does!