10th Anniversary XBL = Free 360's?!?!

Xbox Live turns 10 this year and Microsoft appears to be celebrating by giving away special, anniversary-branded Xbox 360 consoles to those who have been around since the early days. There's been no formal confirmation from Microsoft, but reports and photos from around the web offer pretty concrete evidence.

One Redditor claims to have received a phone call on October 22, 2012 about the 10th anniversary of Xbox Live, letting the user know that he's "one of their most valued members." A few weeks later (aka yesterday), a package arrived containing what you see in the above image. A similar report comes via one Kotaku user.

The only official confirmation so far that something is up came from Major Nelson, who tweeted yesterday about the anniversary and promising news to come. It looks like this news has taken care of itself.

S7 mrmiller wrote:Correct, to play Halo online we used Xbox Connect, a tunneling program you ran simultaneously on your Networked PC. It actually worked really well. The first big XBL game for the original black box was Unreal Championship which was great. Many hours of CTF were spent in that game.

~mrmiller

S7 Interseptor wrote:Keep in mind, this is Xbox Live from back from before the 360. We are talking about the ORIGINAL Xbox back in 2002.

S7 Interseptor wrote:Keep in mind, this is Xbox Live from back from before the 360. We are talking about the ORIGINAL Xbox back in 2002.

S7 K1ll3rKlown wrote: oh yeah...just remembered.
Back then I wasn't K1ll3rKlown, I was "Gr8testAlive"...think that matters?

S7 OC wrote:Same here any one signed up for the Microsoft rewards program should also have received a code for an Xbox anniversary helmet.