“Earning Xbox Live achievements on the toilet? Awesome. Being able to play online multiplayer games with my other Xbox Live friends and earning achievements while on the toilet? That would be even awesomer. Right now, Windows Phone’s link to Xbox Live is only medium satisfying, but the potential for amazing things is eyeball-explodingly obvious. Full-on Xbox Live multiplayer. Xbox Live Arcade games that you start playing on your Xbox and then pick up waiting in line at Starbucks, like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Earning items in a Fable Windows Phone game to use in Fable IV. Truly ubiquitous Xbox gaming, so even the most atrophied addicts can leave the house and still get their game on. Windows Phone should be the portable Xbox. (And it should be a remote for your Xbox too.)”
There’s no shortage of ways that Microsoft can improve Windows Phone 7 – despite the version number, it’s really 1.0 software, and has lots of growth required before it’s on even footing with rival platforms that have 3-5 years of growth behind them. There are some interesting things on this list, though some of them are kind of odd – would you really power off your phone in the middle of a game instead of exiting the game, then powering it off? The author of this piece is complaining about how it takes a few seconds to resume a game that’s behind the lock screen when he powers the phone back on – I’ll have to try the same thing on my iPod Touch to see how iOS handles it…
“Microsoft has announced that a new batch of Crackdown 2 DLC will be released later this month…Microsoft is also planning to release a Windows Phone 7 tie-in project later this month. Entitled Crackdown: Project Sunburst, the game offers up tower defense gameplay utilizing Bing Maps”
It will be exciting to see the Xbox Live companion type games come to the marketplace. Any Crackdown 2 players out there?
“Microsoft has announced that a new batch of Crackdown 2 DLC will be released later this month…Microsoft is also planning to release a Windows Phone 7 tie-in project later this month. Entitled Crackdown: Project Sunburst, the game offers up tower defense gameplay utilizing Bing Maps”
It will be exciting to see the Xbox Live companion type games come to the marketplace. Any Crackdown 2 players out there?
“Microsoft has announced that a new batch of Crackdown 2 DLC will be released later this month…Microsoft is also planning to release a Windows Phone 7 tie-in project later this month. Entitled Crackdown: Project Sunburst, the game offers up tower defense gameplay utilizing Bing Maps”
It will be exciting to see the Xbox Live companion type games come to the marketplace. Any Crackdown 2 players out there?
Some new Windows Phone 7 demo videos have just been posted by Microsoft on their YouTube channel. We’re a little puzzled with some of them though – the “Get in the Game” video just shows you the Games Hub Tile .. just that.. for 30 seconds. Surely a game or two would’ve been better?
You can also get a demo of the on-screen keyboard with “Spell It Your Way“, “Emoticons” and “Auto Corrections“.
Click on to view them all, and don’t forget to be here on Monday afternoon when the first Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices will be shown off to the world.
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Some new Windows Phone 7 demo videos have just been posted by Microsoft on their YouTube channel. We’re a little puzzled with some of them though – the “Get in the Game” video just shows you the Games Hub Tile .. just that.. for 30 seconds. Surely a game or two would’ve been better?
You can also get a demo of the on-screen keyboard with “Spell It Your Way“, “Emoticons” and “Auto Corrections“.
Click on to view them all, and don’t forget to be here on Monday afternoon when the first Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices will be shown off to the world.
Read on and add your comments. Follow us on twitter too.
Some new Windows Phone 7 demo videos have just been posted by Microsoft on their YouTube channel. We’re a little puzzled with some of them though – the “Get in the Game” video just shows you the Games Hub Tile .. just that.. for 30 seconds. Surely a game or two would’ve been better?
You can also get a demo of the on-screen keyboard with “Spell It Your Way“, “Emoticons” and “Auto Corrections“.
Click on to view them all, and don’t forget to be here on Monday afternoon when the first Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices will be shown off to the world.
Read on and add your comments. Follow us on twitter too.
I’ve been thinking of sharing excerpts of some articles I publish on other websites, while I figure out an efficient way to do that I’ll do it old school. To begin with here are my thoughts on Apple’s Ping and Game Center as posted on The Next Web:
Apple did not create a Facebook meets Twitter meets iTunes since it was a magical way to make people buy music, they wanted to make sure Microsoft did not claim a social one-up. Game Center did not come out solely because iOS is the best selling portable gaming platform. Apple realized that users enjoy competing with their friends and score themselves, Microsoft had this as another potential USP with Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone 7.
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[TNW] iTunes Ping, Game Center and Windows Phone 7
I’ve been thinking of sharing excerpts of some articles I publish on other websites, while I figure out an efficient way to do that I’ll do it old school. To begin with here are my thoughts on Apple’s Ping and Game Center as posted on The Next Web:
Apple did not create a Facebook meets Twitter meets iTunes since it was a magical way to make people buy music, they wanted to make sure Microsoft did not claim a social one-up. Game Center did not come out solely because iOS is the best selling portable gaming platform. Apple realized that users enjoy competing with their friends and score themselves, Microsoft had this as another potential USP with Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone 7.
Read the full post on The Next Web
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[TNW] iTunes Ping, Game Center and Windows Phone 7
I’ve been thinking of sharing excerpts of some articles I publish on other websites, while I figure out an efficient way to do that I’ll do it old school. To begin with here are my thoughts on Apple’s Ping and Game Center as posted on The Next Web:
Apple did not create a Facebook meets Twitter meets iTunes since it was a magical way to make people buy music, they wanted to make sure Microsoft did not claim a social one-up. Game Center did not come out solely because iOS is the best selling portable gaming platform. Apple realized that users enjoy competing with their friends and score themselves, Microsoft had this as another potential USP with Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone 7.
Read the full post on The Next Web
Published at: I'm Just Being Manan | Subscribe
[TNW] iTunes Ping, Game Center and Windows Phone 7
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