Xbox Live Gets Social

Microsoft have just stepped up their online service by offering Twitter, Facebook and LastFM to their Gold Xbox Live subscribers. They’re by no means perfect, but go some way to justifying the yearly fee. The full details are listed in my feature, which you can read a preview for below. If you want to read the full article, just click the ‘more’ button.

While the Playstation 3 boasts a fully functioning web browser (although arguably a little haphazard) Xbox 360 owners have been waiting for their next big internet integration.

Luckily Microsoft are always keen to update their online service, adding small but significant changes to show that our subscription fees are being put to good use. The last major overhaul was the new dashboard system; this time we’re getting Facebook, Twitter and LastFM. (More)

As you may have probably guessed from the Twitter feed on the right, i’m a big fan of the ‘140 character’ revolution known as ‘tweeting’. You can keep up with my Twitter profile here and please, by all means post links to your own Twitter feeds below. I’d love to follow you guys!

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