Is Microsoft Planning a "Launch Party" for the New Xbox Experience?

Yesterday, an interesting rumor emerged claiming that Microsoft was planning a huge launch party on September 25th to celebrate the release of the dashboard update. While it wouldn’t be odd for the company to hold some sort of event in order to drum up interest, the sheer magnitude of the event was going to be staggering.

According to the source, the company was teaming up with G4 to present a five-hour programming marathon, featuring a countdown and various product announcements along the way. Among these earth-shattering plans were going to be reveals for a partnership with Sirius satellite radio for service over Xbox Live, a new music store and, biggest of all, the announcement of twelve new Xbox 360 titles, coupled with the release of 6 free original Xbox games, among them the original Halo.

If you’re thinking this sounds too good to be true, you’re not alone. All of the features listed here were not even mentioned by Microsoft at the E3 dashboard reveal, and none of these features leaked at PAX either. Also, the fact that such a huge event was being planned and yet not a single promotion has been made on G4 (the studio that runs nonstop commercials about how you can watch Cops pretty much every hour of the day) seemed quite fishy. It turns out the whole thing is just a hoax.

Kotaku took it upon themselves to get a comment from G4, and according to the company, they have had absolutely no talks with Microsoft regarding such an event.While G4 reps couldn’t comment on what Microsoft may plan to do internally for the dashboard update, the station confirmed that there is no televised countdown and no major red carpet extravaganza. Looks like this is just a case of some over-eager fanboy using the Internet to spread his vision of a Utopian Xbox future. Well, we’re here to kill that Utopia and bring him back to harsh reality.

TGR Verdict: Rumor Killed