Joe Brennan: Hi, I am Joe Brennan from progamer.com. The series of videos that you are watching is how to join Xbox Live and right now we are going to learn how you can create your own gamertag. To get started in creating your gamertag, you are going to from the main Xbox Live screen, navigate down with your left thumb stick to the Join Xbox Live prompt and hit the green button to select it. You are going to get a nice little marketing message about how you are joining a community of millions of people across the globe waiting for you to come out and exert your dominance in Halo 3. So we are going to select the Join Xbox Live prompt. Hit the green Select A button and it's going to connect this to the network. Any connection that we would have right now to Xbox Live, any logins that we might have need to be severed, so we are going to select Yes. Press the green select button and we are going to connect to Xbox Live. Just select Continue and select the green A button and now we have to enter a gamertag name. Now gamertag is just like having an online avatar say for your Instant Messaging list. So, it ought to be reflective of who you are as a person, your personality, yet contain enough of the shall we say intimidation factor so that you fit in with the online gaming crowd. So I will just select Done. Xbox Live will again check and it turns out that, yes monkeyseeme2 is available as a gamertag name. Now, that we have finished creating your gamertag, now we are going to learn how to create or enter your Windows Live ID for Xbox Live.
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Xbox Live – Creating a Gamer Tag