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Xbox Live autumn update on Tuesday News
Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
The Xbox Live autumn update will be released on Tuesday, 17th November, confirming an earlier leak.
Marc Whitten, Xbox Live general manager, revealed the news on Fast Company (via Kotaku).
The autumn update brings Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm to Xbox 360 in special, console-tailored form.
Expect Xbox Live downtime next Tuesday as Johnny Minkley's backlog of Tweets are loaded.
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insincere_dave
12/11/09 @ 18:22
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Agreed. They would have launched the update before MW2 if there was going to be significant downtime.
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WinterSnowblind
12/11/09 @ 19:10
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You don't need to install Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm they're optional downloads.
@Vroom! Or the PS3 announcement is because the 360 is getting it..? Those of us in the preview programme have had access to these Apps for weeks now, we've known this update will be coming soon for a very long time. |
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TheRankinator
12/11/09 @ 19:14
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Indeed but I haven't really used any of the services beyond 30 minutes
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asphaltcowboy
12/11/09 @ 20:02
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last.fm is well implemented (even if you can't listen to music whilst playing games -- please sort this out MS!), but Twitter and Facebook are completely pointless. I would actually use them both if you could do status updates/tweets directly from the dashboard, but if I have to load up a specific app to access all this stuff, it becomes completely redundant!
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Jonathan_Fakenham
12/11/09 @ 21:12
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Any dashboard tweaks in this fall update at all? Or is it just all social networking junk.
Oh right. I seem to remember something about music game DLC getting its own separate section.
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I can see Last.fm being nice - especially if you could use it while in game, which you probably can't? But twitter and Facebook has limited use since they are really mediums which requires a regular browser to be really useful - how else are you suppose to be watching videoes and other fun links etc.?
Also I can only imagine you would have to have a chatpad to be able to use it without going crazy!
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@#18 - Last.fm can't be used in game, this is commen knowledge by now. Who knows though maybe they can update that in the future?
I've been in the preview. Used Last.fm a couple of times but haven't touched Twiiter or Facebook since the first day I downloaded them and had a quick look. Just totally pointless the way they have been implemented, if you could bring them up in the guide while gaming and post updates and such then maybe they'd be ok (though to be honest I'm not a huge fan of either on pc anyway).
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Facebook & Twitter ... yeah ok ... i might not use them much ... but i see why they'de want them on the 360 .... what I can't understand is why something like facebook and twitter would beat YouTube to the xbox dashboard !!!??? MS are you listening!?
Whislt you're at it ... B R O W S E R !!! C'mon! |
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metalangel
12/11/09 @ 23:05
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Fuck Twitter. For smug, self-loving twats who really think that anyone else really gives a fuck what they're doing every hour of the day. Especially to people who act all offended if you DON'T have Twitter to follow their pointless lives and thus have to suffer the old-fashioned hassle of, you know, talking to you about what they've been doing? Did we lose a war? Do we live in caves? Face to face interaction?
Facebook can fuck off as well. Especially as my team leader is on my friends list (you don't know what she's like, she nagged me constantly until I added her) so I'm now stuck - suppose I'm off sick, decide to play some Peggle to cheer myself up and have my Xbox updating my Facebook that I'm playing games! Oh, so you're too sick to work but not too sick to play games, eh?
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M_of_the_sys
12/11/09 @ 23:22
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@metalangel
That first paragraph seriously made me laugh. "Oh, so you're too sick to work but not too sick to play games, eh?" She kinda has a point there... o.O |
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Until Microsoft started throwing the words Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm around in relation to their upcoming update, I'd never heard of any of them! I can guess what Last.fm does (radio thing) but I haven't a clue what the other two are for!
Ah... the joys of being ignorant; that way you don't miss something you can't have. :) |
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farticusmaximus
13/11/09 @ 09:02
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"Too bad my made-up xbox is rodded"
What a coincidence, my PS3-that-also-doesnt-exist is YLODed so I wont be able to use the upcoming PS3 facebook update. |
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@spenner,Yes.
As everyone keeps saying Facebook is a bit naff on xbox but last fm is a nice tool for people like me who dont have any decent sound coming from the pc/laptop. And remember kids its not forced on to you,each app is a seperate download...if you dont want it dont download it you shower of moaning cock's ;) |
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Darrengamer
13/11/09 @ 10:24
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I don't know what Bookface and Twatter are because I live in a hole with my sooooper compooter! Who wants to associate with other people anyway?!
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Bravestinsane
13/11/09 @ 16:37
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This is a pointless update for me, my xbox and pc are both connected to my monitor so i can play full HD, i can flick back to that a lot quicker than loading it up and having limited functionality on a console.
On top of that one of my mates got the update early and said you can't use LastFM while playing games so meh... |
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