{"id":39133,"date":"2016-05-16T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T21:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=39133"},"modified":"2016-05-16T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T21:41:57","slug":"time-changed-gamertag-xbox-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2016\/05\/16\/time-changed-gamertag-xbox-live\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s about time you changed your gamertag on Xbox Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen up gamers! Microsoft is going to release close to a million defunct gamertags and <a href=\"https:\/\/majornelson.com\/2016\/05\/16\/recycled-xbox-gamertags-releasing-may-18th\/\">make them available<\/a> for Xbox Live members&#8217; use. That means you&#8217;ll be able to get away from the horrid nickname you chose in a fit of annoyance while trying to blast through the account creation process back when you got your first Xbox. I&#8217;m looking at you JoosyFroot911. You too, xXxPWN_DOGxXx. You&#8217;re not kids now. It&#8217;s time to grow up and grab one of these gamertags recycled from the original Xbox era. Hang it up, KirbyLuvsMario. No one&#8217;s buying what you&#8217;re selling. Although Microsoft won&#8217;t release a list ahead of the May 18th release date, the names come from categories like &#8220;Types of Food&#8221; and &#8220;Some of the greatest inventions of all time.&#8221; Time to see if LordSpeculum or Corndog_Millionaire are <a href=\"http:\/\/support.xbox.com\/en-US\/my-account\/manage-gamertag-and-profile\/change-xbox-live-gamertag\">up for grabs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen up gamers! Microsoft is going to release close to a million defunct gamertags and make them available for Xbox Live members&#8217; use. That means you&#8217;ll be able to get away from the horrid nickname you chose in a fit of annoyance while trying to blast through the account creation process back when you got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":39137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-39133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-xbox-live"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s about time you changed your gamertag on Xbox Live - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2016\/05\/16\/time-changed-gamertag-xbox-live\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s about time you changed your gamertag on Xbox Live - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Listen up gamers! 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