Many people who know me know that I?m a big gamer. I love my 360… I once over heated my Xbox from 14 hours or straight use. (This was before the girlfriend.)

Over the holiday season the online service that Microsoft runs got slammed because of all the people who received 360?s for Christmas. (or Hanukah, or Chanukah, or Kwanzaa, or Ramadan, or Boxing Day… you get my point. ) Xbox Live or XBL is a pay service that costs $50 a year. When you pay for a service like this, you pay for uptime so when the service went down paying customers got angry.

Microsoft extended an olive branch to the XBL users and announced that every user would receive a FREE Live Arcade game to make up for the service downtime, title or titles to be determined at a later date.

Today is officially the later date. Microsoft announced that there would only be ONE game to choose from and that game would be Undertow. Don?t get me wrong, I appreciate the freebie for shitty service, but let me pick a game I want… not one that didn?t do so well and you want to prop up.

I?m calling this LAME.

Gizmodo: Microsoft’s Free Xbox Live Game For Service Outage: Undertow