Tag: Xbox Live
Microsoft about-turns on Games for Windows Live pricing, offers refund
PC gaming news was kind of thin on the ground at the recent E3. Well, in fairness, gaming news was widely considered to be thin on the ground at this year’s E3, but directly PC-relevant news especially so. Microsoft must have been a bit too embarrassed to announce this one to the attending masses (despite how appealing it is to our wallets): Games for Windows Live is now free to use on PC.
Microsoft's Xbox Live-on-a-mobile 'Live Anywhere' service still coming. Eventually
Live Anywhere arrived to a big fanfare when it was first revealed in early 2006, with demos – now clearly revealed as fantasy mock-ups – that showed gamers editing their Forza Motorsport 2 cars on mobiles, texting them over to friends, accessing their Xbox Live GamerTags on their phones and playing their Live Arcade game collections on a suitably powerful handset.
That, we now know, is a dream that didn’t happen. Not even a sniff of a beta. But it’s still on the cards – Microsoft’s Live supremo Jeff Bell recently confirmed that bringing Xbox Live to mobiles is still very much one of Microsoft’s future plans…
Call of Duty 4 Map Pack sets new Xbox Live record
Publisher Activision has announced that the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare expansion, enticingly named ‘Variety Map Pack’ has broken the record for downloadable content sales on Xbox Live…
Xbox Live Video Store is up in the UK – Warner releasing more films soon
If you’re a bit disappointed by the 24 slightly old movies that’ve just gone up on the new UK Xbox Live Video Store today, don’t cry about it – Warner will be coming to the rescue of film fans before the end of the year.
Specifically, Warner has said that Batman Begins will be up before 2008, with the older Batman Forever and Analyze That also appearing on Xbox Live before you have…
Xbox Live going all Facebook with 'Friends of Friends' social networking toy
Next week’s Xbox 360 dashboard update – due on December 4 – is going to bring some basic social networking features to the incredibly popular online service.
Basically, you’ll be able to browse the Friends lists of your Friends – which is a terrifying prospect if you’ve constructed a careful web of lies over who all these people are…
The week's hottest Xbox 360 stories: Price cut, Halo 3, Shadowrun and more…
Amid all the blather about PS3 and Wii, people often forget that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console is continuing to fire on all cylinders, particularly when it comes to online and downloadable gaming. Our sister blog Xboxer keeps track of it all – here’s their ten top stories this week:
