Showing posts with label Xbox Live. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Xbox Live. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Xbox SmartGlass now on iPhones and iPads
Microsoft has been quite aggressively branding its Xbox 360 as an all-new, all-in-1 home entertainment system, connecting it with its newly-released Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Along with the entire Microsoft family product sync would be the release of Xbox SmartGlass, serving as a companion app for the console.
The app has been on the Windows and Android platform for quite a while and today it has finally been approved onto the iOS platform. Meaning, Xbox SmartGlass is now available on the iPhone and even also a special version for the iPad.
What it serves to do remains pretty interesting. It basically serves as a second screen for most features in the console. Xbox Music was announced a week or so ago, and SmartGlass will be one of the ways to more conveniently control playbacks or search for songs, instead of navigating via the controller. Likewise, it works for movies, even providing additional information like synopsis when requested. However, SmartGlass features for games may for now be quite limited, though I'm expecting developers to take advantage of this features in future games.
Want a look into its experience? Here's a video explaining it all.
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You can download it here.
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
4 Xbox 360 dashboard updates you should know
Over the course of next week starting from today, login to your Xbox Live and you might just realise a slight change. It won't be a big change, and not completely revolutionary - the user interface in its basics will stay the same, the tiles will stay, the fonts will stay; and that's good, it's Microsoft's trademark now, afterall. But just look around the screen, and take a look at your tiles and you might just find out the new updates :
Internet Explorer
This, is big. It's possibly the biggest and most important update (depending on what you use) this time around as you can now go online to the web and do whatever you do on a computer, or a tablet, or a phone. Also to note that Internet Explorer supports any HTML5 videos so it can come pretty handy, though at the same time, browsing may be difficult as typing using a console, as you know, is simply not convenient at all.Xbox Video
Check around and you will notice that you can't find Zune Video Marketplace anymore. Hence, Xbox Video is now what has replaced Zune, also still providing TV shows and movies for buying or hire. Basically, similar features, a cooler name.Recent
Also a name change, what was called 'Quick Play' previously is now 'Recent'. So the next time you want to get back to your last action, just hit the Recent view up and get the list of whatever you last accessed on your console.My Pins
If you're a windows phone user, you will already know what these "pins" are all about. Basically, it's like bookmarking, or saving your favourite movies, TV shows, games, music, videos and even now websites right onto your homescreen. So the next time you want to find that movie you watch just so many times, save the long hassle and jump right into the scene from your homescreen itself.--------
And there you go the top 4 most important updates I believe will truly make a difference (or stop confusing you). It's actually really nice that the user interface haven't changed alot, and that the tiles stay. In fact, if you've noticed, more tiles are added! That's good, because I find Microsoft's tiles unique, different, special.
Oh, there's still one yet to come. It's not in this update though, but soon, really soon.
Xbox SmartGlass
Remember a few months ago during E3 when Microsoft introduced a companion app for Xbox 360 on Windows 8 PCs, tablets and smartphones? Well, this is at the moment not ready for release yet at least until the launch of Windows 8 come October 26th. Will it be a big update then? I'm thinking so but will it be revolutionary? I doubt so. The SmartGlass will probably be something as an additional fun, something you know you get so excited about at first, but slowly get bored after a while. Well, that's just what I think.Sunday, 2 September 2012
List of Xbox games available for Windows 8 launch
You've probably seen some of the newly unveiled Windows 8 tablet/laptops already, and may or have also heard that Microsoft's latest PC operating system will be hitting our shelves (or digitally downloaded) on October 26. And if you are planning to get your hands on it, here's some of the games immediately available (at a cost of course) on the day.
The official launch list:
- 4 Elements II Special Edition
- A World of Keflings
- Adera: Episode 1
- Adera: Episode 2
- Adera: Episode 3
- Angry Birds
- Angry Birds Space
- Big Buck Hunter Pro
- BlazBlue Calamity Trigger
- Collateral Damage
- Crash Course GO
- Cut the Rope
- Disney Fairies
- Dragon’s Lair
- Field & Stream Fishing
- Fruit Ninja
- Gravity Guy
- Gunstringer: Dead Man Running
- Hydro Thunder Hurricane
- IloMilo
- iStunt 2
- Jetpack Joyride
- Kinectimals Unleashed
- Microsoft Mahjong
- Microsoft Minesweeper
- Microsoft Solitaire Collection
- Monster Island
- PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX
- Pinball FX 2
- Reckless Racing Ultimate
- Rocket Riot 3D
- Shark Dash
- Shuffle Party
- Skulls of the Shogun
- Taptiles
- Team Crossword
- The Harvest HD
- Toy Soldiers Cold War
- Wordament
- Zombies!!!
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Valve Wants Steamworks in Xbox Live Version of CS: Global Offensive
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