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This may or may not be shown on Inside Xbox in the UK: EA are closing the servers for Burnout Revenge on the 13th of April 2012. Almost two years since we lost the ability to play Burnout 3: Takedown online with the close of Original Xbox Live, we are now losing its sequel. Burnout Revenge is a unique experience on Xbox Live. No other racing game shares its adrenalin fuelled furiosity. No other game has anything like its crash mode. No other game has had me hooked for over 6 years.

Sadly we are unable to get to play this week, so are missing saying goodbye to Burnout Revenge. I hope you are all still playing and making the most of your final chance to race around the Revenge world. I know some people have tried Ridge Racer Unbounded, and I hope to try it soon too... I wish there was a demo as I'm not sure it is going to suit me. Otherwise, I guess my race fix will be found on NFS: The Run, at least until something better comes along. Let me know if you have any tips for arcade racers I may not have tried out!

I haven't posted in a while but I always read what everyone says so here it goes. :)

I have been playing burnout for 7 years sense the day it came out!... The day Burnout Revenge is down will be one of the saddest days I will never forget. To my best friends I made on Revenge to the rivals I made. To all the Burners I will always cherish the races and moments we had. I love this game to death and I don't want to see it end. I might not always be on it daily but I will always be playing it when I do have time. I always imagined that I would grow old and die with a controller in my hand with Burnout in the console. (Just a thought though.)
I will miss all of my friends from the Original Release date on the big black box to everyone I met along the way! They are all my friends and even though we all had fights along the way. Family is Family and one thing we will always have together is Burnout! They might take away our online playing time together but they will never take away our memories from us! To all you Burnout Burners out there, I salute you! I love all of you and you'll forever be remembered in my life as amazing people! I hope to see my Burnout friends all again another good Burnout game! -
Sincerely - Hyperion118, L1LDRUMM3RB0Y, Hyper xGTx, Sonic STX, and Xedec! for all of my friends who new me as either of These.

A while back I did a little experiment with our forums and added a couple of forums for non-burnout games. 

They were not exactly a success.

In fact our whole forum section (if not the website, but lets not go there) has died a bit of a slow death.

I've had a bit of a spring clean over on our links page. Quite a few Burnout community fansites have fallen at the wayside. Sadly, BurnoutCrash.com was one of them. They had some good crash junction guides, but oh well! 

I'm feeling a little guilty about not playing Revenge enough to justify the servers staying open. I wouldn't say I ever moved on from it, but I did try the new release arcade racing games to see if I could get into them. I did play Paradise for a while and most recently killed some hours on Burnout Crash!

Burnout has been a big part of my life for a long time now. It all started with the first game, then came the second, on various consoles, then came Xbox Live and Burnout 3: Takedown.

It was on Takedown that I made most of the friends I have now. We made our own Burnout family. We were all excited for the release of Burnout: Revenge. The online experience on Burnout games was incredibly addictive. I would run home to be able to get online and play sooner. We were all hooked!

Not a lot to report today.

Added a Hall of Shame to publicly out spammers. Their name, e-mail, IP address and location is logged. The information can be found here: Hall of Shame . Do whatever you want with it.

Since the news broke about the server close down due on the 13th of April 2012, some of the Burnout Revenge community have taken action to try to save the game.

I sent an email to mailbag@criteriongames.com asking for a stay of execution, others have emailed ea, which I will do later if I can figure out how! There is also the official ea forums, where you can voice your concerns, although there doesn't seem to be an official Burnout Revenge or Burnout Series forum over there anymore... I hadn't visited for a long time before today, it's all different. (note to self, probably time to update the links page again) Edited to add: I found the Burnout series forum on the ea UK forums and did a post about it, but the forum is pretty dead.

We had 10 minutes of downtime this morning as I was upgrading the site to the latest version of Drupal ( version 6.25). The update contained a whole bunch of security related fixes. 

As I was upgrading the site I also installed the latest version of the text editor. Again mostly security related fixes + one feature I know some people will like. The editor now has spell checking! Also note that we are no longer accepting HTML formatted text to be pasted in to our text editor.