An advanced word of warning from the Major to all Xbox Live players that LIVE will be down for scheduled maintenance next week for up to *GASP* 24 hours. The downtime is to get LIVE prepped for the addition of Facebook, Twitter and all the other new fancies that will be headed our way later this year. Here's the full word:

“On Tuesday, June 16th from 7:01AM UTC (12:01 AM PST) for up to 24 hours, Xbox Live will be offline for maintenance. As a result, Xbox LIVE and the ‘My Xbox’ section of Xbox.com will be unavailable, and the Xbox forums will be in read only mode (you won’t be able to post.)

The remainder of Xbox.com will be available with limited interruptions.

This service maintenance is to prepare for some of the recently announced features that will be available later this year.

Let me reiterate: When the service returns, you will not have any new functions or features. This is for scheduled maintenance only.”