Xbox Live – Gold And Silver
Xbox 360 currently gives users the means to interact with one another, using the add-on function that is Xbox Live. If you’re an Xbox Live user, you are automatically part of the chat list. So, you can chat and debate anything with friends and family via the Xbox 360 headset. Moreover, you can also interact and organize a gaming throwdown with countless other Xbox users. Xbox Live also lets you buy content in Xbox Live Marketplace, download additional videogame content and even watch preview videos.
If users are enticed by these features and wish to become an Xbox Live member, there are two accounts to choose from, classified into two distinct services – gold and silver.
Initially, the silver service is just the free option of Xbox Live. Choosing this version, gamers just simply get online and download games. Adding to this, users are given the ability to integrate their own voice to chat and interact with fellow Xbox Live players. However, this is all Xbox Live silver provides users with. If you’re attempting to find the true Xbox Live experience, Xbox Live gold is what you must go for.
Secondly, the Xbox Live Gold service has many functions that make it a grand way to game on the web. Aside from the brilliant Xbox Live functions, it provides players with a large number of further add-ons. There is improved chat allowance, as well as interaction with a host of Microsoft products, including messenger and further chat and video programs. The most notable function of Xbox Live gold is the way in which your online avatar is shown to the community. Each account is allowed to form a different ‘motto’ displaying to other gamers online and even linking to Facebook. Additionally, you can also hold a record of your accomplishments. As you play more you gradually forge a reputation, and if users like you they can rank you positively, making it better to avoid interacting with players holding negative feedback.
Users may also build a friends list that will list all of your selected chums. It will also inform you when any of your pals come online. There’s also a player list that will list the last fifty users that you have met.
Xbox Live is as good as Xbox gaming gets. It not only offers great gaming but also provides you with the chance to share your experience with other gamers!
Bungie No Longer Making Halo Games
Some sad video game news now for gamers, Bungie, game developers of the massively popular Halo series, have announced that once they finish with the production of Halo: Reach, they will no longer be creating any more Halo games.
This news was released during an interview with video game reviews site, IGN, with Lars Bakken. Drakken had this to say to IGN: “After Reach that’s it for us. We’re already working on a new project that we can’t talk about yet.”
Absolutely nothing is given away about the new title that is currently in the works. However, Bungie haven’t always developed FPS, oh no, before that they developed third person games, as well as some RTS games. Because of this, we have absolutely no idea what sort of game to expect next from Bungie.
What we do know is that many people will miss Bungies contribution to the Halo franchise. With the first release back in 2001 with Halo: Combat Evolved, the company went from strength to strength. Hitting the shelves soon after came Halo 2 and Halo 3 which both brought in record breaking sales to Bungie. Halo 3: ODST and the final game, Halo: Reach, are currently both in production at Bungie Studios. ODST is planned for a September 2009 release and the recently announced Reach game is planned for a late 2010 release. Obviously the release date for Halo: Reach cannot be confirmed, only a target can be given.
Don’t be too worried though Halo fans, any future games that may be developed are being handed over to the recently announced Microsoft 343 industries. Whether any games developed by them will manage the same top notch game reviews is unknown, it’s just a case of waiting and watching for now.
Lets just hope that they don’t send the franchie into any strange new direction that might ruin the game. It would would be terrible if that happened as the whole game and reputation would be ruined.
TV Shows and Movies on Video Game Consoles
This entertainment article was originally written for Spreety TV Online by Carolyn Giardina.
Accessing and Viewing Entertainment Content on Nontraditional Devices
By Carolyn Giardina
The interest in accessing and viewing entertainment content on nontraditional devices was growing this year at Electronic Entertainment Expo, the annual computer and video games convention better known as E3, which occurred in June at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
An estimated 41,000 attendees previewed upcoming titles such as James Cameron’s 3D “Avatar,” “The Beatles: Rock Band” and a new version of Wii Fit. More than 40 million subscribers use the entertainment networks of Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network, said Michael Gallagher, CEO of the Entertainment Software Association, which puts on E3.
Gallagher also reported that during the first three months that Netflix was available through Xbox Live, over 25 million hours of movies and TV programming was viewed.
And now content availability it poised to grow. Sony Computer Entertainment America confirmed that its PSP portable system would offer direct access to PlayStation Network’s video delivery service, where users can download movies and television programs to the mobile device.
Also at E3, Sony’s video delivery service announced content from 16 new partners in Hollywood, anime and sports. With these partners, Sony expects its service to offer nearly 1,900 movies and 9,400 TV episodes.
Hollywood content partners include Showtime Networks, Starz Media, Summit Entertainment, The Weinstein Company, HDnet and Magnolia Pictures. Among the sports partners are HDNet Fights, UFC, Wrestling from TNA and Video Action Sports.
PlayStation Store will feature TV shows such as Showtime’s “Dexter” and E!’s “The Soup.” A new anime channel will be added to the lineup.
Meanwhile, Microsoft revealed that Xbox would deliver 1080p movies and TV with 5.1 surround sound, instantly on demand and direct to consoles connected to compatible HD TVs through the Xbox LIVE social entertainment network.
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