Anyone who has been onto their xbox live accounts recently will have been greeted with a mandatory update. This brought about a couple of new features, mainly relating to the marketplace including game streaming and game awards, though the one that really caught my eye was a little yellow number at the top of some of my friends gamertags. But what is it exactly?

After a little asking around I found that not many people knew what it was about, maybe relating to the new award system or a rating system. But it turns out that it actually shows how many years the user has been a member of xbox live! Quite an interesting feature in my opinion.

I currently have the highest I have seen, being "6". Anyone got higher?!