With just over 4 days remaining for the big, mysterious announcement from Microsoft India, people have almost thrown themselves off bridges trying to figure out what the damn thing’s all about. Being the sick guy off work this week, what better way to spend my time recuperating than spreading and trying to substantiate rumors, right?

Even as hundreds of desperate fans try to analyze the image on the site, I think I may have just found a little more (ir?)refutable proof that the announcement will indeed be about Xbox LIVE. Thumbing through the Gears of War manual while waiting for a co-op session to begin, I noticed the Xbox LIVE ad in the manual has a number of “similar” characters. Which, combined with the little gold-colored concentric circles on the navigation menu on the Xbox India website, strongly points to the service soon finding its way into the country.

Of course, it’s quite possible that we’re setting ourselves, and hundreds of others, up for a huge fall, but, yeah, that’s how desperate and perverse we are. Or as the locals say, “kindly excuse, we are like this only!”

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• My Ghillie » Rumor Control: Xbox LIVE India Says:
  Friday, October 19th, 2007 08:29 pm GMT +5.5 at 8:29 pm

  [...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt Xbox LIVE India? With just over 4 days remaining for the big, mysterious announcement from Microsoft India, people have almost thrown themselves off bridges … concentric circles on the navigation menu on the Xbox India website, strongly points to the service soon [...]

• the ANGRY pixel » The GamingIndians Call Of Duty 4 Offer Says:
  Saturday, October 20th, 2007 09:24 am GMT +5.5 at 9:24 am

  [...] and the near-imminent launch of Xbox LIVE India! We are drooling already! [...]

• Varun Kumar Says:
  Monday, October 22nd, 2007 12:29 pm GMT +5.5 at 12:29 pm

  073107_superHero.swf
  Thats the name of SWF. erm, I fear its not XBL announcement. In any case there’s just one day left

• Krishnan Rajagopal Says:
  Monday, October 22nd, 2007 02:06 pm GMT +5.5 at 2:06 pm

  I don’t know. Major was watching CNN-IBN or some other channel the other day and saw Mohit Anand talk about Xbox LIVE’s launch in India and how it’d be “soon”. Could very well be… considering it’s about bloody time.

• the ANGRY pixel » The Great Xbox 360 India Avalanche Says:
  Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 02:32 pm GMT +5.5 at 2:32 pm

  [...] the little big Microsoft announcement that we talked about some time back? With over 2 hours to go before the clock hits zero, [...]