Even though this will most likely not get read by the mother or father congrats!

ThatsMrOffDutyNinja

@Kimiko: It's "you're" and "pathetic".

You're pathetic. Got that? You're pathetic.

ErskinPig

@ErskinPig:

Stfu, your pathatic.

Kimiko

lets never associate the rrod of death with a new born baby ever again. i get it, and its cute, but if you think a little bit about what that means...it couldnt be any less funny. Though i'm not saying any of you are crazy a**holes...i know what ya meant and that there was no harm intended.

jrghoull

Love is a battlefield. Wait, what if you make love to the enemy?

excaleranth

@rdj: Yes, and strangely it ended up on gaming news sites across the globe. I bet they never saw that coming or intended for it to happen. 8-)

ErskinPig

There's a lot of suckers on here. Damn.

Hate filled? I don't give a shit about the baby, the baby is not the issue. The issue is that MS obviously caught wind of this story and bribed the couple to use it as a propaganda piece, and by the looks of it, it worked!

If you can't see that, then I pity you.

ErskinPig

Congrats on the baby!!!

Superman

@luketheobscure: Totally cute pic :-D

Superman

The sender of that message sounds like a psychopath. Really, she does. Like the 'handcuff man to house so he can't leave' type of psychopath.

Nereos

@ErskinPig: ................................................................... Wow. Wow.
These people are happy together, what makes you so hate filled you have to call it a lie and propaganda?

Zeouterlimits

Nice to hear this lady did out of it, but this story is the reason so many men bug any random females on Xbox live they meet.

Ladies, keep the success stories quiet or we won't be able to scare all the wierdos away!

EdwinJ85

@ErskinPig: Yeah, how dare they report on the goings-on of their community....in their community section. On their own website. Which is actually just for the xbox readers. Were you going for sarcasm or something?

Anywho, yay for e-relations, it happens on occasion.

rdj

@balls187++: Jack Thompson? Is that you?

...and stereotypes abound...

Iocarios

Great, so now there is another kid that can be ignored while their irresponsible parents play online games.

School.Shooting++

balls187++

Nothing to add but a picture of my baby holding an xbox controller:

[www.flickr.com]

When else will I get to post this?

luketheobscure

What a little cutie. :) Congrats to the couple!

Soriya

This just goes to show that consistent gaming doesn't always result in isolation, loneliness, and blue balls.

acez2087

What's the kid's GamerTag? ...errr I mean name?

Mr.SithNinja

cuute =]

Kimiko

@Cell9song: nothings awful about it, but at the same time, whats so special about it!? i question the reasoning behind her doing this, its a nice enough story but becomes sour in some peoples eyes because it seems quite plausible shes basically trying to get free stuff out of MS. what else has made her feel the need to email them broadcasting this amazing news!..what does she want? a medal? yes, you met someone and started a relationship while doing fun activity you both enjoy doing, what a revelation!!

you know another activity people also enjoy doing? going out getting drunk and dancing around in clubs on saturday nights!! next you'll be telling me people form relationships after meeting up doing that aswell! :P

seriously tho, this woman may be onto something. i met my girlfriend in a shop, im off to email their website telling them that in the hope i get sent free stuff too ;)

Up2NoGooD316

Teabagging n00bs is a lot more fun in real life!

kidnicky

How much did bill Gates pay her to make that baby? :P

STHD

GET THAT BABY OF THE 360!! Jeez do you want the RROD? FOOLS!

excel_excel

Bitterness highlights the truthiness of gamer stereotype re: getting chicks.

Huxleyhobbes

@FLegion: You poor fool.

ErskinPig

lol, I love that carefully staged photo too. We're supposed to believe it's just a random snap from the family album eh MS? No photoshoot, no professional photographer. Gotcha ;) I won't tell anyone.

ErskinPig

@ErskinPig: You're joking, right? Sounds like you're the one who needs the bithcslap. Or a hug.

Agree, geekgrrl and Cell9song.

FLegion

@Reneg: hey you can spin my comment however you want to try but my point stands that there are very few people on LIVE with a certain level of maturity. I mean, it's good for them and I'm happy it worked out. All I am saying is that I personally can't handle way over competitive people and their insationable need to swear use derogatory terms. I know for a fact there are several good people on LIVE. The problem is that the bad to good ratio is way out of whack.

LowNemesis

God, why are some people so jaded? (I should talk though)

Two people found each other and had a kid. WTF is so awful about that?

Cell9song

congrats to the couple and their kid, but i seriously doubt this is the first baby born as a result of xbox live. people meet through games all the time, they just don't get publicity like this.

the amount of cynicism in this thread is disheartening and kind of surprising. we're gamers, what's so strange about meeting a potential life partner during one of our biggest hobbies? sure, the distance sucks, but making it work is not impossible. besides, you can find out a lot about a person by how s/he plays a game than in many other situations.

geekgrrl

Lame publicity stunt MS. Lame and weaselly. I love how you're trying to act like this is something that's come from the community and that you haven't bribed these people to use their child as propoganda.

You really need a good bitchslapping.

ErskinPig

Let's see...this baby was born 2 years after that game came out, so....good luck with your impulse marriage.

supercrap

1st xbox baby? lol someone wants a ms goodie bag...

Up2NoGooD316

What the . . . ? I've never even heard of Rainbow Six Lockdown.

And why would they ruin a perfectly good Xbox by putting a baby on it?!

This whole story is very confusing.

peAr_nectAr

This just in.. XBox 360 #1 cause of teen pregnancy

xpnet

Hopefully the baby doesn't get RROD

hwalker84

Maybe Live is a good place to meet women because, if you're not a 13 year old swear-monger, you look pretty damn good.

I know, I know, I should be congratulatory. But I have to admit, there's something that vaguely creeps me out about the situation. I don't mind meeting people on line, but...well, maybe it's my inner Thompson, but I can't not doubt the health of a partnership originally formed around a terrorist shoot 'um up.

Slatz_Grobnik

It's nice to hear a cute story like this about Live instead of the usual stuff. I don't have Live myself so I'm kinda curious if it's as bad as people say it is...

And just to throw it out there, I met my boyfriend by selling him a 24-slot herb bag. We're living together now :P

Technolicious

@DaiMacculate: Ahh, I understand now. I'm sorry if i came off a bit hostile, there are many sony fanboys out there who usually fight with my reasoning and I mistook you for one. I agree that sony should keep doing at least ok because microsoft needs someone to compete with on the same level, since wii is kind of in a different atmosphere of its own. Oh, and im glad you liked my Zero Wing reference, I thought it would be the best way to end my paragraph, like completely end it without leaving a negitive feel or more like an ending joke :D Anyways we are straying far away from topic and I don't know if thats allowed, so in other news...

Thats a cute baby, but I'm taking that the 360 its laying on doesn't work and has the RROD? I mean, why else would they be using the towel trick...err blanket & baby trick in this case :p

GcRayden

Beautiful story, and gave me a laugh at the end there. And pretty sure I've played this baby in COD4 but then again there are a lot of babies on that game ; )

BLiNk

I am confused now oO, who is the father? Mike or Xbox Live????

Maxinux

@GcRayden: So don't get pissy with me because I made a joke on sony's end, I'm not setting you up the bomb.

Other than the Zero Wing reference, I'm not sure I get you. I was legitimately curious to the source of your anger with Sony, which from your experience sounds justified. I myself only got a PS2 because of Katamari and my unwillingness to wait for the Xbox1 version of GTA: San Andreas, so no Sony fanboy am I ;)

I'm also still on the fence with the PS3, mostly because I continue to question the utility of owning a Blu Ray drive at the moment, when most HD releases are just not worth the money. If all it had going was its gaming, I'd be where I was with the PS2 in 2003, waiting on a game that is compelling enough (to me personally) to sell me the system.

I am kind of rooting for PS3 to continue doing at least OK though, because I fear the consequences if MS is somehow left in sole control of the HD console market.

DaiMacculate

@DaiMacculate: I have had numerious problems with sony, like the fact that my ps2 came without rumble. I tried to get sony to fix it but since the ps2 was still in working condition they wouldn't accept it. Then once my ps2 did break, they offered to fix it for a fee of $120 because it was like 3 days over the warrenty. Most of my ps2 games gave me disc read errors and my ps2 wouldn't read blue disc games, but that problem I had when i first got it too. Then I got the multi-tap, too bad it doesn't work on your ps2 if your rumble is broken. I got the HDD which sony said would be used for all these different games (appearently Final Fantasy XI and their expansions count as different games). After all of this crap happening, I decided just to get a new ps2, which eventually started to go down the same path so I got into ps2 backups / HDD loader as ps2 started dying out. Then the biggest blow to push me over the edge was when the ps3 was announced at $600 and then they have the balls to turn around and say that its our problem if we dont buy it. I might get a ps3 in the future, but after all of that sony is going to have to show me some proof that what they are putting out is worth it because I'll be damned if I have to go through that again. Its not that im a 360 fanboy, im just a hurt gamer trying to find the best system for me, and ps3 has so far killed their chance with me because of their different sku's being constantly downgraded to make the ps3 cheaper. So don't get pissy with me because I made a joke on sony's end, I'm not setting you up the bomb.

GcRayden

Aww, nice with a feelgood story from/about live, instead of the usual negative suff. Congratulations to the parents.

Cactuar

Errr... I'm glad for you Stacey... REALLY.

But the first X-Box LIVE baby? The First x360 baby? Stop it with the over dramatisizing... It's YOUR baby for pete's sake XD

Death-Grin

The first XBOX baby? Nah. There are alot of babies on Xbox Live, just listen through the headset.

KM91

We can create a new fad here: "gamepads over my first born"

[www.stuffonmycat.com]

tei

Quite a cute baby. Of course once she wakes up and starts crying you can then put the headset on her and she'll fit right in with the rest of the Halo kiddies.

Seriously though. Very cute story and a nice way to start my work day.

battra92

what a cutie! they're so precious when they're not throwing up, shitting or screaming.

i really have to resist my urge to snicker at the fact that two nerds met through an online game, but this time it actually came out pretty awesome. no one was killed.
in fact, just the opposite! they created a life! and on purpose too!

....probably.

aphexacid

Isn't putting your kid on top of an xbox 360 child abuse? I know that if my parents put me near a 360 when I was a baby, I'd be more mad at them now that if they were those parents who put their kids on leashes when they go grocery shopping... it's just plain wrong!

TouchMyBox

My girlfriend has the worst feedback on Xbox live: Like 88% avoid 22% approve, and she talks maybe once a twice a day... usually doesn't even plug in the headset. One female voice, and the friends requests flow though... she had over 50 friends in two days of CoD4. The second she gets online, she'll have four or five messages and a few game invite requests. We just laugh.

Oh, and I met her on WoW, three years ago. We promptly quit right after we met.

aveneyer

Would love to see what this chick looks like.

mikecoscia

I would chime in on whatever the hell is happening in here, but that baby is just too adorable.

Infradead

@GcRayden: Wow, Sony really hurt you, didn't they? What did they do, run over your dog? I'm just really curious now.

DaiMacculate

An XBox Live baby? A horrifying thought!

It's first word will probably be "Faggot!" or "Bitch!"

Still, I suppose congratulations are in order.

Just keep the soap handy for washing that mouth out.

JudgeNutmeg

One of these again -_- I congratulate them for finding each other, same with the halo 3 in-game "will you marry me?" message but alot of these articles make me jealous because they act like this kind of thing is "new and exciting". I met my girlfriend on THPS4 for Ps2 and we recently just moved in together and are getting married soon and nobody seemed to post an article about us lol. I was a sony fanboy for the longest time and hated the xbox / xbox 360 for years until sony betrayed me. Now I switched to 360 but maybe I should act like I got ps3 and switch my story to meeting on ps3's THPG and be their "Wonderful 1/10 chance, 2 people hook up on ps3 game". That would show them, stupid microsoft and your gloating stories. Oh and btw, the 1/10 chance isnt a typo, I was just guessing around the true number of people who actually play on the playstation network :p

GcRayden

That's an adorable picture :)

And how is this any different from the people that meet over the internet? It's just another form of socialising, which on occassions can lead to greater things. :o! Shocking!

holytramp

So if this kid grows up to be a brutal, oppressive dictator somehow, is it fair if I blame Live/Major Nelson/Bill Gates? Without them he would never have come into being...

DaiMacculate

@hikaizer: Why not? Matchmaking works great in halo3. Yeah, I know sometimes you get paired with captains, even if you're a newbie who just got graduated, but it's mostly accurate :P

Mr. Pie

While it's a touching story and it worked for this couple, I really would not recommend the LIVE service for matchmaking.

hikaizer

@Fugue: "Oh man, is that worse for the baby or for the 360?"

Nah, the baby will be all warm and fuzzy sleeping on that xbox360, and the 360..... well... it'll be TOO warm and fuzzy INSIDE, so I guess the console will take the damage.

Oh boy, I think I'm getting old, because I find the picture cute, and the baby adorable. Damn you! 360! You ruin everything! Now if you'll excuse me i'll go watch some photos of cats doing things with funny captions ¬¬

Mr. Pie

Picture = fantastic. Cute + Console + Shiny.
Toss a puppy in there and you've got a poster for years to come.

GMC

24th. I share my birthday with a true product of gaming.

Intriguing. Their newsletter, I shall subscribe.

No honestly, I don't really care. All I know is my cousin married a women he met online and after they got married she stole all of his stuff and had him committed to an psychiatric house for aledgedly attempting to murder himself and her.

I honestly don't know what happened to him. My brother relayed the story to me 4 months ago when he got off the phone with my cousin's mom (so my aunt). To be honest, I was never close enough to the guy to think about checking up on how the events progressed.

This story just reminded me of it. Pretty messed up world we live in.

Feig

Feigro

we can now use the Phrase "Lets make babies over LIVE"..:p

28121986

This is no less "E-Ridiculous" or 'lame' as all those WoW weddings and crap. But personally when I meet someone on Live I hate, I mute them, report them and make sure I don't play with them again. Maybe I've been missing a trick there...

Pombar

Thats true NEXT-GEN.

tei

@Chef:

It's funny because it's true.

Marlor

Congrats to the mother and father!

Rebelphoenix83

@symphony_of_the_night: Hahaha, that cracked me up. I lol'd, multiple times.

Jomi294

Wow, some of these comments are in such poor taste I wish the banhammer upon you. Seriously, wash your mouths out.
My particular fave is @LowNemesis: Step 1: Completely discredit and insult all people who may have used X-box live. Step 2: Tell about how you've been using Xbox Live for the past 4 years.

Reneg

@Chef: Yeah, that's what I was talking about!!

yoshinatsu

What a heartwarming story to hear of two people who warmed up to each other until their hearts were set aflame into a burning passion for each other thanks to Xbox Live.

I'm amazed, because:

1) The Xbox helped make a baby instead of crush one (as the user manual repeatedly warns against)
2) I can't possibly see this happening based on my experiences with Uno, CoD4, and Halo 3 online voice chat, unless you have a soft spot in your heart for 13-15 year olds with high voices and mouths that sailors wouldn't dare to piss in.

Chef

@RealmRPGer: LoL. I think it's a faceplate.

yoshinatsu

@Snuffbox: Well, no one said it's Microsoft's fault that Xbox Live is full of kids.

yoshinatsu

Hmm this thread makes me wonder what kind of Monday we will see next week... :)

Enderet

XBOX LIVE the new eHarmony.

Sailorcancer

Holy crap

There is so much cynicism in this thread its ridiculous. People just love ripping Microsoft for whatever reason. Microsoft could discover the cure for cancer and fanboys would still find something wrong with it.

Congrats to the happy couple- their daughter is extremely cute and their success is just another example of tech bringing people together.

Snuffbox

Well, Xbox Live IS full of young screaming kids.
It's just that there ARE exceptions.
Anyway, it's always nice to see that technology is also helping people other than destroying them.
It's also good to know that people share the experience of games, and that it's actually AN EXPERIENCE nowadays.
That's what we wanted from games in all of our life, and I think we finally got it :)

yoshinatsu

I bet that kid is going to grow up to be screaming swear words and racial slurs with the best of them ^_^

But congrats to Stacy and Mike, showing all people that Xbox Live isn't just full of young screaming kids.

May the little girl have a long and healthy life!

exkon

@Captain Impulse: Very keen observation. What is with everyone?

JohnnytheFuture

It's a nice story, but I think it just represents the one time a 1:10000 odds of a successful online-gaming-turned-real-life relationship actually works.

Can't use it as inspiration to find your own partner online. It's just luck. =(

Crisu

Congradulations Mike and Stacy on your beautiful daughter!

What really makes me tingly is the fact that yall took the time to get the hard xbox360 all comfy and fluffy with the pink blanket while taking this picture.

Better be careful there though Stacy, your daughter may start prefering the warm motherly pur of the 360.

doing

Oh geez, you people, lighten up! Not every person on Xbox Live is a screaming 10-year old. It's perfectly possible to casually meet on any game and have a worthwile conversation.

Policroma

That's rad...?

commanderdeek

Well... Xbox Live can't get me pregant.

Xiedo

that poor kid is gonna hate her parents for putting her on top of a blinged-out 360 later in life...

on second thought,considering her parents met over Live, she might turn out the be the exact kind of person to think it's really awesome...who knows!

H0PLITE

Is it just me or is that kid more adorable than it has any right to be?

somethinginnocuous

Congratulations! Birth Achievement Unlocked!

KnaveX

@ArmyofJuan: In COD4: "Oh yeah, baby. Stab me again!"

Revolutionary

Is Stacy a Microsoft employee?

Hollette

the whole "I hate you" then marraige over games/mmos is more common than a lot of you think :P

SkutSkut

GOLD BLING OF DEATH

LittleBigPlaneteer

I would have hated to be on their team before they met. All the flirting over the headset must have been annoying. Possibly the first case of mic-sex.

ArmyofJuan

Congrats to them seriously , meeting through a video game the epitome of lovefor a nerd, that of marrying the person you makes youre favorite game. but i dont think the latter has happened yet

eternalplayer2345

Wow...some of the ridiculous comments here made me forget I was on Kotaku.

Captain Impulse

Incoming Microsoft gifts for Stacy.

...like they did for that kid who's 360 got cleaned of custom artwork.

They're probably gonna get a ton of pampers and games or something.

Revolutionary

You all are a bunch of cynical bastards. This is a real next-gen system here, people. Thing's got support for 8000000p resolution, tons of memory, and force feedback, all standard.

Congrats, and have a happy lifetime of telling her not to sit too close to the TV.

MisterSleep

@Afore Notation: Agreed that the baby is adorable, and some of the mocking in the thread is, let's say, in poor taste.

On the other hand, some of the "negative" comments are reacting less to the birth of this little girl and more to something a little odd about the credit given to the xbox live community. Like Intelsilver said, it's kind of like sending flowers to the gym where you met your mate, and it makes the whole thing feel a little... commercial, I guess.

Not to begrudge this couple their happiness at the birth of their new baby, it's just that the announcement seems a bit strange somehow.

(That, and the coincidence of the birth of the console's "first baby" with the release date of its biggest game makes my Hoax-meter tingle a bit, but stranger things have happened)

DireWombat

Better hope that XBox doesn't overheat...

Nullzero

@elevenoverzero: Lol

Nice story i guess, but absolutely one in a million. More likely: [kotaku.com]

Thrillhaus

@Afore Notation: Seconded. Stacy's explanation was a bit gushy, but I think the comments of "laaame" and whatnot are from those who can't understand why yelling "omg ur a girl be my gf kthxbai" into their headset doesn't work.

ShaggE

and RROD joke in...................

mikeluisortega

Did the baby frag anyone yet?

Burrows14

Did the 360 community migrate over to this page just to ridicule themselves and this couple? Sure sounds like it, and I am choking on the second hand irony.

I, for one, think--nay, I KNOW this is a beautiful thing.

Afore Notation

Wait, September 24, 2007? Is that right?

So the, as they put it, "first Xbox LIVE baby" was born just in time for the parents to get in line for the midnight release of Halo 3?

Eerie.

DireWombat

@IntelSilver: Well said, couldn't have said it better myself. lol

This thing happens a lot in gaming. I remember I once saw on TV about a wife cheating on her husband with a guy she met on EverQuest. Really.. what are the odds?

k_dash

What a bunch of freaks.

AnEternalEnigma

@Eating_Sushi:
Reminds me of a website that was selling something similar for the PC a long time ago. (Don't know if it was a joke or not) It was called "F-u F-me" I think. If it wasn't a joke, it was funny regardless.

Darkest Daze

Did the man-juice shoot from the 360 console, remote controller, or the headset?

I'm believing now that Microsoft has a dildo add-on for the ladies and a vagina for the men. Miracously through a new technology called SoIP, we can make e-love along with moaning and groaning through VoIP.

Need to research more.

Eating_Sushi

I really doubt he is much of a "man" if she met him playing on Xbox live. Xbox live is full of kids and adults who act like kids. I've been on live since 2004 and there are only a couple of people that I have ever met that I would be able to tolerate in person.

LowNemesis

@symphony_of_the_night:

LOL

I think this was a bit of a wake up call to me. Theres not more assholes playing xbox, theres just a general amount like in everyday life. As I'm forcefully shown here, theres an equal amount of good things happening because of the social connections being made.

But really, R6 Lockdown? I hated that game. My dad might love every R6 there is, but I'm just a Vegas man.

Komrade_Kayce

@naznatips:
Weak. Just weak.

Grey_Fox

Where do I get the shiny 360?

RealmRPGer

@k_dash:
Me too. I don't know why. I think it's the credits they give to Xbox Live or whatever they happen to meet with.
So if I meet my wife in a gym, i have to send flowers and thank you gifts/cards to the gym owner.

IntelSilver

Well there's something you don't hear everyday.

But such a success story for the rest of us looking for e-whores is looking real slim.

Congrats to the happy couple though.

Batousi

why are they cooking their children ?

symphony_of_the_night

Some people might find this E-Romantic, to me its E-Ridiculous..

k_dash

start the presses ladie has e sex and get pregnant read all about it.

Really now people that play video games alday are very lonely. I'm not surprised at least they are happy. I know for one im loney but i still try and look in the real world for my ladies... wait maybe i should start looking on xboxlive.

Allcars

Congrats~! I hope your baby doesn't get the red ring.

Connoisseur

Wow, that has to be the biggest load of cheese I've ever heard. Laaaaaaaaaaaaaame.

iToke

I hope that baby doesn't RROD. >_>
(someone had to do it)

naznatips

@Xeros606: I wonder if they were re-enacting those virtual rape moments from that Mass Effect Porn.

mescalineeyes

first it makes kids violent, then it causes pregnancies? we must do something about these "video games"! ill go inform the media!

im off to fox news headquarters!

Xeros606

I wish girls fell for me when I call them "gay homos lols lols lols" over voice chat.

elevenoverzero

Oh man, is that worse for the baby or for the 360?

Fugue

@ErskinPig: I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with your comments, but the only thing that is always pathetic is someone who tries to ridicule someone else for the grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. As long as we understand what their getting at, it matters not. This is a blog's comment section, not a course on composition. I've seen several of you're posts and it seems like you just go around trying to start arguments. Everyone has their own opinion and your's is not going to change anyone else's or vise versa.

LowNemesis

Lucky they didn't meet on V1 Xbox - the controller would have crushed the kid!

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