XBL Update: Twitter, Facebook, Last FM, Movies & More …
It’s mandatory XBox Live update day!
Following on from the launch of Netflix on the PS3 last week, Microsoft hope to appease their own members by an update that integrates dashboards with the biggest social networking and multimedia sites available today.
From the 17 November, Gold members be able twitter with friends via XBox Live (although, thankfully, nothing will pop up whilst you’re in the middle of playing) and update statues or sync gamertags via Facebook accounts. You’ll be able to explore and discover new music via Last FM’s vaults of 3.5 million tracks to tailor your perfect radio station and – with a promise of minimal buffering/download time – Zune offers HD movies to buy/rent from the comfort of your dashboard.
This comes within days of the UK update that enables subscribers to British broadcaster BSkyB to watch Sky TV – including the Sky Sports, News, Movies and entertainment channels – from their console. (As someone who has never been able to access the Sky Player due to Mac functionality issues (sigh), this was a much-wanted feature in Vikkiland.)
Just a note of caution if you’ve got a modded box; the BBC reports that over a million gamers have been banned from the XBL network following violations of terms of use on discovery of chips and pirated games.
So what do you think? Are you pleased with the new features?
Tags: bskyb, dashboard update, facebook, gold membership, last.fm, november 17th, release date, skytv, twitter, xbox live
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Yay! It's the day we'll all been waiting for! But… It's so lame…
Last.fm and Instant On (which I'll seldom use) seem pretty cool, but I don't have enough time on my hands to use Facebook and Tweet from my Xbox.
I haven't upgraded yet as I've been in tied up with uni, but as I don't really use FB, it seems a bit useless for me. Last FM too. The only thing I'm moderately interested in is Twitter.
Yay! It's the day we'll all been waiting for! But… It's so lame…
Last.fm and Instant On (which I'll seldom use) seem pretty cool, but I don't have enough time on my hands to use Facebook and Tweet from my Xbox.
I haven't upgraded yet as I've been in tied up with uni, but as I don't really use FB, it seems a bit useless for me. Last FM too. The only thing I'm moderately interested in is Twitter.