Microsoft E3 Tons Of Goodies Announced

By: Syeed 

So Microsoft recently held their Keynote at E3 and they’ve got quite a few interesting new plans for Xbox 360 and Live.

First off, live T.V and YouTube will finally be coming to Xbox 360. From what I understand it’s rolling out in Australia and France, but I haven’t been able to track down any specific details on a US release. This is a pretty big addition and might allow for future software that could make your Xbox into a DVR. The new T.V service will also have full Kinect support as well as make use of Bin voice search to help users find content.

As far as games go, it was sequel-a-plenty time there’s Halo 4, which will be the first in a new Halo trilogy, a remake of the original Halo…but in HD and with online co-op, Kinect Star Was was announced…pretty much any decent selling Xbox 360 ever is getting a sequel it seems. My favorite and one I’ve been waiting awhile for is Mass Effect 3, I love that game and can’t wait to finish it out.

There were some other cool things for Kinect announced such as support that will allow players to scan their faces and whatnot, I guess if your going to be shooting your friends in the face online, it might as well look like ‘em right? There’s also tell of a Kinect-enabled version of Mincraft releasing next year, and Kinect Fun Labs, an addition to the Xbox 360’s dashboard that’s pretty much just a goof-around tool for Kinect.

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Xbox TV a Possibility

There were reports yesterday that Microsoft is currently trying to woo top television networks into bringing their content on the Xbox 360 here in the U.S.

As it stands Xbox 360 users currently spend about 40 percent of their time on the console watching the video content that’s currently already available via Netflix, Zune and the ESPN channels. So it would stand to reason that the content providers would want to add their content to the console, not only would it benefit them in terms of reaching a slightly wider audience they would also be getting the benefit of targeted advertising since Microsoft, y’know spies on Xbox users practically every second of the day. Hell if you own a Kinect it’s not at all impossible for advertisers to target ads for clothing in your exact size.

Anyway enough paranoia for now, although there hasn’t been any official announcement but one of the suits over at Microsoft has commented that they are ‘very interested in delivering great content to consumers.’  E3 isn’t too far away so there probably just ironing things out for an announcement there.

There’s also mention that if Xbox 360 gets television stations they might be coming to you through Verizon’s new data centers which have apparently been optimized for exactly what the rumors are rumoring, provide high definition video over the web as reliably as any cable or satellite provider. Verizon is Fios TV will be the first to take advantage of the new centers but they will be available to any retailer looking to become an online multiservice operator.

UK Sky Cable subscribers already get the use something like what people think Microsoft is planning here in the states. So the picture up top is an example of what it might look like.

• By: Kareem@techsual.com
• Source: Toms Guide