Crank up Custom Entertainment on Xbox 360 Watch as this new feature for Xbox LIVE is revealed
at the E3 press briefing.High | LowXbox 360 announced today that for the first time you'll have access to high-quality streaming music on Xbox 360. Listen with your friends, manage your personalized radio station by loving or banning specific tracks, or let Last.fm customize a soundtrack for you based on artists you love or any music style you choose. In addition to Last.fm, Xbox 360 also announced that Facebook and Twitter would be tailor-made for your TV, brought straight to your couch only through Xbox LIVE. Making TV More Social
"We are always asking ourselves how to make the TV more social," said John Schappert, corporate vice president of Interactive Entertainment LIVE, Software and Studios at Microsoft. "By bringing Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm to Xbox 360, we're not only extending the walls of your living room beyond your home to your friends all over the world, we're creating the definitive social network, uniting more than 300 million people to share thoughts on music, play games, and tweet." The addition of Twitter and Facebook to Xbox LIVE means friends are always connected, anytime, anywhere—any couch. But updating your status, sharing photos and tweeting won't be the only things you can do. Using Facebook Connect, you can share your greatest moments in gaming by posting updates and screenshots directly to your Facebook profile. Don't let your moment of glory fade away—make sure everyone sees it with Facebook Connect, starting with a future release of the premier EA Sports golf franchise Tiger Woods PGA TOUR®. Xbox 360 also solidified its place as one of the leading social entertainment networks by announcing LIVE party for movies. Go to the cinema with your friends whether you are sitting on the same couch or in living rooms across the country. Starting this year, you can share a virtual theater, see your avatar (a virtual you) on the screen, all while you listen to each other laugh and cry together at the movie through voice chat on Xbox LIVE. With movie parties, the only thing you can't share is the popcorn. | | |
