{"id":92491,"date":"2016-05-17T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=92491"},"modified":"2016-05-17T13:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:46:01","slug":"recycled-xbox-live-gamertags-up-for-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/92491-recycled-xbox-live-gamertags-up-for-grabs","title":{"rendered":"Recycled Xbox Live Gamertags up for grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1 million inactive Gamertags will be made <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/majornelson.com\/2016\/05\/16\/recycled-xbox-gamertags-releasing-may-18th\/\" target=\"_blank\">available <\/a><\/strong>to the public.<\/p>\n<p>These account names will be up for grabs as of <strong>18 May at 20:00<\/strong> South African time.<\/p>\n<p>These Gamertags are from accounts abandoned from the original Xbox era, similar to the wave of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/majornelson.com\/2011\/03\/01\/xbox-live-gamertags-go-zombie-and-rise-from-the-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamertags released in 2011<\/a><\/strong>. These accounts never migrated to Xbox 360 and as a result they have been inactive for quite some time &#8211;\u00a0 you don&#8217;t have to worry about losing any of your games or someone kicking you out of your current account .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While it may be challenging to find the exact Gamertag you want, keep trying, as there are many great Gamertags that will be released. Although we can\u2019t share the actual list, we can tell you that many of the available Gamertags are in the following categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proper Names<\/li>\n<li>Pop culture references (Entertainment, sports, gaming)<\/li>\n<li>Types of Food<\/li>\n<li>Geography and Travel<\/li>\n<li>Science and Technology<\/li>\n<li>Math and Numbers<\/li>\n<li>Animals<\/li>\n<li>Some of the greatest inventions of all time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Is there a special Gamertag you have in mind that you hope to nab? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to ADSL gaming traffic growth in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87985-adsl-gaming-traffic-growth-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">ADSL gaming traffic growth in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Massive Xbox Live price increase in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/92461-massive-xbox-live-price-increase-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Massive Xbox Live price increase in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The fight for the heart and soul of competitive gaming in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/92331-the-fight-for-the-heart-and-soul-of-competitive-gaming-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The fight for the heart and soul of competitive gaming in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1 million inactive gamertags will be made available to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":37555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,18749,18751,243],"class_list":["post-92491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-gamertags","tag-released","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92531,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92491\/revisions\/92531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}