I was all fired up to get Ride the Fury running on the XBox tonight.

The code was flowing well after some painful project file linking, the compile errors were all easy to deal with… had the whole thing packaged up on my lappy ready to upload and what happens.

XBOX.COM is down!!!!

For some reason the XNA Launcher requires you to be connected to the net before you can upload your project, presumably to keep tabs on people trying to do the wrong thing. So no xbox.com no XNA dev… damn it.

Edit: Coincidentally as if answering my criticism xbox.com came back online as soon I published this post.