New Links 2004 Course Coming

On the Xboxcom message board yesterday, Microsoft announced that a brand-new golf course will pretty soon be available for Links 2004 the online golf sim the company released for the Xbox back in November. The course will first appearance on the Xbox Live service sometime within the nearest few days; players will ne to pay a one-time $499 charge to come by the necessary files.

According to David Cass of Microsoft, the course will be Kapalua Plantation in Hawaii -- site of the Mercede Championships, a PGA Tour fact taking place through January 11 "It will be exclusively available via Xbox Live," Cass wrote "You cannot download this from the Internet and deposit it on a disk, nor will you be seeing it in the Xbox magazine disks."

The novel course marks the latest in a series of Xbox Live updates that require the user to pay extra -- a turn that's alarmed some online gamers. "I know many will question our decision to release a premium easy in mind download at this time," wrote Daryl Welsh, program manager at Microsoft. "The hard reality is that Links is a business, and part of our desire to stay in this business is to do sum of two units things simultaneously: provide those customers who've already purchased our game new and exciting new content, and render certain we have all the resources we ne to make great fresh content for the next version of the game."

Concurrent with the Kapalua course will be a brand-new sweepstakes, with random Links players winning prizes like cudgel sets and Suunto golf watches. You'll ne to download the extra course to penetrate the sweepstakes, the details of which Microsoft promised to release pretty soon

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