September 13th 2011 1:41 pm PT

Xbox LIVE and Windows 8

We are confirming that we will be bringing Xbox LIVE to the PC with Xbox LIVE on Windows. We are very excited about Xbox LIVE coming to Windows 8.  Xbox LIVE brings your games, music, movies, and TV shows to your favorite Microsoft and Windows devices.  Bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows 8 is part of our vision to bring you all the entertainment you want, shared with the people you care about, made easy.  At BUILD we are showing that it is easy for developers to create games for Windows 8 that take advantage of the power of Xbox LIVE.  We have much more detail to share about the capabilities of Xbox LIVE on Windows and look forward to the opportunity to do so in the near future.

If you want to learn more about Windows 8, you can watch the Keynote from earlier today.

Update: Here is a screenshot that shows Xbox LIVE on Windows 8

Windows 8, Xbox Live By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

  • Daniel DeLucio

    This may seem like a long-shot, but does this mean PC will become capable of playing Xbox titles somehow?

  • Daniel DeLucio

    This may seem like a long-shot, but does this mean PC will become capable of playing Xbox titles somehow?

  • AmpliHelix

    I just hope Windows 8 won’t be another $150+.

  • AmpliHelix

    I just hope Windows 8 won’t be another $150+.

  • the Tech Dino

    This is awesome.  Windows 8 looks amazing.  I find it funny though.  I thought Games for Windows LIVE was suppose to be this, but what ever!  This is awesome news.

  • the Tech Dino

    This is awesome.  Windows 8 looks amazing.  I find it funny though.  I thought Games for Windows LIVE was suppose to be this, but what ever!  This is awesome news.

  • chaze hejms

    didnt windows 7 just come out?

  • chaze hejms

    didnt windows 7 just come out?

  • Anonymous

    Would love to see the Windows Store cone to the Xbox. Do what Apple did for smartphones to our TVs!

  • Anonymous

    Would love to see the Windows Store cone to the Xbox. Do what Apple did for smartphones to our TVs!

  • Todd Schroeder

    Will it be available with the developer build tonight?

  • Todd Schroeder

    Will it be available with the developer build tonight?

  • http://twitter.com/larbear_72 Larry Slattery

    As long as Windows 8 doesn’t leave a nasty taste in our mouths like Vista did, I will continue being very excited about the new OS. Windows 7 was a massive upgrade. @Microsoft:disqus 
    : Tip, do not release operating system until fully functional with modern and upcoming hardware and software. :)
    And thank you Mr. Larry for providing good info to us nerds!

  • http://twitter.com/larbear_72 Larry Slattery

    As long as Windows 8 doesn’t leave a nasty taste in our mouths like Vista did, I will continue being very excited about the new OS. Windows 7 was a massive upgrade. @Microsoft:disqus 
    : Tip, do not release operating system until fully functional with modern and upcoming hardware and software. :)
    And thank you Mr. Larry for providing good info to us nerds!

  • http://w1ngnut.myopenid.com/ w1ngnut

    This is a killer feature for Windows and Xbox! But, one question – tHis is interesting: “Xbox LIVE brings your games, music, movies, and TV shows to your favorite Microsoft and Windows device”. Does this mean Zune is being phased out?

  • http://w1ngnut.myopenid.com/ w1ngnut

    This is a killer feature for Windows and Xbox! But, one question – tHis is interesting: “Xbox LIVE brings your games, music, movies, and TV shows to your favorite Microsoft and Windows device”. Does this mean Zune is being phased out?

  • Anonymous

    Different architectures so… not going to happen.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1113051243 Giuliano Tognarelli Buono-core

    Its xbox live not windows live. should be only for xbox

  • Peter M.

    Will this be free like windows live?

  • Peter M.

    Will this be free like windows live?

  • http://twitter.com/larbear_72 Larry Slattery

    Windows 7 was just a over haul and fix of Windows Vista. I wouldn’t count it as a new OS, just the result of what Microsoft had intended to release with Vista.  

  • Anonymous

    I would love to !

  • Anonymous

    I would love to !

  • http://twitter.com/AlexMSFT AliHK

    This I did NOT know, which is awesome, since I knew everything else. Can’t wait to here more about this!

  • http://twitter.com/AlexMSFT AliHK

    This I did NOT know, which is awesome, since I knew everything else. Can’t wait to here more about this!

  • Anonymous

    Very interesting

  • http://twitter.com/mcmax3000 David

    Windows 7 will have been out for two years next month & I don’t believe Windows 8 is scheduled for release until next year. Three years is roughly normal between Windows versions (I think it just seems short because Windows XP was around for so long).

  • http://twitter.com/mcmax3000 David

    Windows 7 will have been out for two years next month & I don’t believe Windows 8 is scheduled for release until next year. Three years is roughly normal between Windows versions (I think it just seems short because Windows XP was around for so long).

  • Anonymous

    why put a link to the keynote, if it’s not available to watch.

  • Anonymous

    That doesn’t mean zune is being phased out. The fact that zune has been phased out already is why we know is dead.

  • http://twitter.com/seekul Luke Es | sE ekuL

    Well, give it a few years and PCs will probably be powerful enough to HLE. More long-term than long-shot. ;)

  • Doug Anderson

    Why? Xbox (with Xbox Live) is one, if not the greatest platform Microsoft has right now. Why not integrate it into other things?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=519370297 Michael Relko

    Achievements for Windows Solitaire.  That would make me so happy. 

  • http://twitter.com/seekul Luke Es | sE ekuL

    It was supposed to be, but then they wised up about how powerful the Xbox brand and the unified gamertag is. The people who don’t like the Xbox brand on their PC are probably not the key audience for these games anymore, and were never going to pay for a Gold membership anyway. :) I think it’s fine.

  • http://twitter.com/Epic_Louie Lou

    Day one purchase for me!

  • Anonymous

    Will the Xbox LIVE integration be in the Windows 8 Dev Preview?

  • Anonymous

    For me, one of the really great things about the XBox platform *has* been that I could use it without paying any attention at all to the rest of what Microsoft is doing. It’s been increasingly influenced by first Zune, then Windows Phone 7, and now Windows 8.

    The changes have not been positive from my perspective (personal example: I haven’t been able to watch a single episode of “The Guild” since they got that Zune stuff all over my XBox), but they seem to be going further down this path.  At this point it feels like further movement in this direction is inevitable.
    I suppose I can only hope that the PS4 or the Wii U is a better console than those vendors’ current generation devices.  Ah well, I *will* give it all a fair shot — I’m just very nervous about it, based on the past.

    And yes, I fully understand that YMMV.  This *may* in fact be an improvement for a whole lot of people.  It doesn’t seem likely that it’ll be one for me, though.

  • http://twitter.com/Sc0ttyyM ScØtt

    Woot. So excited! I have a feeling it is going to be even easier now to play pirated Xbox games online  :)

  • Anonymous

    It’s up now

  • Anonymous

    Looks like this spells the end of Games for Windows Live. Thank god. What a disaster.

  • Peter M.

    At least it doesn’t cost anything. Nice for people who want to play games like halo 2 or gears of war online for free.

  • http://twitter.com/deadstoned Alex

    So GFWL will finally die? Well thats good news =) . Ohh wait its being rebranded Xbox LIVE, way to bring down the service Microsoft -_- . GFWL is bloody awful, keep it as far away from my PC Games as possible. Microsoft cant make good PC Games any more, those days are gone forever.

  • Doug Anderson

    That’s interesting. As someone who doesn’t use Zune or ANY other Windows platform, I don’t feel any kind of real change as an Xbox user. You mentioned that you haven’t been able to watch any of The Guild since the Zune thing, but I don’t see why. I’ve been able to watch each new episode as they come out. It doesn’t feel any different, other than the interface.

  • http://twitter.com/williamronholm Anonymous

    It’s actually easier to watch them with Zune since you can stream instead of download only. (If I’m remembering correctly, since it’s been a few years since NXE started)

  • Anonymous

    Can you play Xbox 360 games on it or is it a rebranding of GFWL?

  • Marcus Posey

    So wait. I’m pretty sure that is confirming that if the future to play what would be GFWL games, umm we’re going to have to pay to play online. 

    Good thing more developers are coming to SteamWorks.

  • the Tech Dino

    In the latest picture it shows that video, music, and games are all apart of the Xbox experience on Windows 8.  What’s going on with Zune?!?!

  • Leo

    AWESOME

  • http://twitter.com/Hellhog Christian

    I’m actually really excited for this. I won’t buy Windows 8 at launch. I’ll wait until my college offers an Academic version (just upgraded to Windows 7 from college). But as an owner of an Xbox 360, Zune, Windows Phone, and a Windows user. This just puts the icing on the cake.

  • Anonymous

    That screenshot might as well be from the new Xbox 360 dashboard…

    Why not show the Games section? That’s what people care about, not renting movies, seeing ads or watching faux comedy about peripherals!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Marston/542557737 Jonathan Marston

    Cool, but why does the Xbox LIVE interface on Windows 8 look more polished than the Windows 8 start screen? I think the Windows guys could use some design help from the Xbox LIVE design team!

  • Vagner Ranieri

    So the rumors are confirmed. The next xbox does not exist! It is so and simply Win8 running games via Xbox Live … On my PC … On my tablet… On my phone… No consoles any more… Sad but I catch the message…

  • Anonymous

    I suspect we’ll see another console regardless

  • Anonymous

    This is just Microsoft extending the XBox Live service beyond the console. It doesn’t replace the console itself as that is MS’s consumer platform for the living room.

  • Anonymous

    Can’t wait to try this out.

  • Anonymous

    Still there, but will most likely be under Apps on the Start Screen.

  • Anonymous

    Still there, but will most likely be under Apps on the Start Screen.

  • Anonymous

    No, you can’t play XBox 360 games.

  • Anonymous

    No, you can’t play XBox 360 games.

  • http://www.facebook.com/aronmayo Aron Mayo

    they are the same guys, the former Zune design team worked on the latest Xbox 360 dash as well as Windows 7 and Windows 8.

  • http://www.facebook.com/aronmayo Aron Mayo

    they are the same guys, the former Zune design team worked on the latest Xbox 360 dash as well as Windows 7 and Windows 8.

  • http://twitter.com/StrikeSudden XboxLiveStrikeSudden

    Just great mouse control against controlers. You get a good thing going to bring all the pc problems to xbox live.

  • http://twitter.com/StrikeSudden XboxLiveStrikeSudden

    Just great mouse control against controlers. You get a good thing going to bring all the pc problems to xbox live.

  • Chris Bizzelle

    I’m getting increasingly nervous.  I’ve seen NOTHING of Windows Media Center in the Xbox 360 dash update and the Windows 8 video.  I really hope I dont have to stop using my current tv set up with the PC acting as a server and my 4 360s acting as extenders.  That would be a real problem for me…and certainly the wife who agreed that I should buy so many 360s and build that insane computer. 

  • Anonymous

    Steve Sinofsky already publicly confirmed on the Windows Team Blog that Media Center would be included in Windows 8.

  • Anonymous

    Steve Sinofsky already publicly confirmed on the Windows Team Blog that Media Center would be included in Windows 8.

  • http://twitter.com/StrikeSudden XboxLiveStrikeSudden

    someone please fire that guy that came over from dell.   Windows 98 all over again. Did not take then will not take now.

  • http://www.kefq900.com kef q900

    I’m curious to see where they’re going to this…would not be surprised if xbox 720 mimicks what we’re seeing here with windows 8

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, we still have the Spotlight channel, even though ads are all over every channel? At least give us a way to disable it, like the Welcome channel.

  • http://twitter.com/StrikeSudden XboxLiveStrikeSudden

    This guy must have alot investments in the hardware end. So destroy the 360 to start making money again. I mean after all 360 profits are the highest at microsoft.  Very wrong leader for the company. I say give all power to larry herb.

  • http://www.facebook.com/FLIPTAKU James Casey

    Not saying anything until Beta is out for me to try it.

  • Anonymous

    Developer copy is available for download right now (no XBox Live though). Beta might be available early next year around CES.

  • Anonymous

    Where do you get the idea that they are trying to destroy the 360? All they’ve done is add the XBox Live service into Windows. That doesn’t mean at all that people will move enmass to the PC. I game on both and have no reason to do away with my 360 and I hardly think anybody else will as well.

  • http://twitter.com/ETPC1 ETPC1

    major nelson, i’ve never read your blog before but what will this mean for PC Games/GFWL? will microsoft try to charge us again? does this mean more cross-platform releases? we need more info! 

  • Naveed Iqbal

    i wonder if pc users will now have to pay for online

  • Anonymous

    Not likely.

  • http://twitter.com/StrikeSudden XboxLiveStrikeSudden

    just wait xbox live customers have been very clear about not wanting pc in xbox.  It will destroy it. Very clear that will happen or they would have stuck with direct x box pc games on the go like they originally planed.  This guy is a sony plant.

  • http://twitter.com/StrikeSudden XboxLiveStrikeSudden

    This is the worst idea of ideas. PC guys hiding hardware ids hacking the network and getting all your account info. Happing right now. Even Major Nelson was hacked. So just present the xbox now as some low end pc.  People want xbox because ps is out of it and reasonably secure. But now. they will just say why bother get a pc and play games on linux.  Im tellin ya this ceo is a sony plant. Windows phone not even that pop. Major vowel loli and stepto still tweet from i phones play games on i phones and read books on i phones not windows phones.

  • Anonymous

    Um, Hello. PC HAS been on the XBox Live service for YEARS now under the Game For Windows Live banner. Different names. SAME network.

  • Anonymous

    **FACEPALM**

    Steven Sinofsky has been with Microsoft since 1989! Hell, that’s 6 YEARS BEFORE the PSONE!

    What happend to Major Nelson and Stepto’s accounts was NOT hacking, but SOCIAL ENGINEERING  –> there is a HUGE difference between the two. PC has been on the Live network since 2006 with Games for Windows Live.

    Do you honestly have a clue what you are talking about?

  • davide spagocci

    Major Nelson there is A PROBLEM whit the game CRIMSON ALLIANCE in XBOXLIVE ARCADE from italy it DOWNLOAD FREE whitout pay it,but i never pay it.

  • Anonymous

    That isn’t a problem. The full game is technically free but you buy the characters. You can buy one for 800 points or all for 1200 points.

  • ElektroDragon

    EXCELLENT!!!! Let’s hope this succeeds where Games for Windows Live did not and turns Steam into just a bunch of hot air!

  • http://twitter.com/mcmax3000 David

    Windows 8 won’t be but I wouldn’t expect using the XBL integration to cost anything once you have the operating system.

  • Anonymous

    Windows 7 never figured out how to have Media Player not auto-munch its own butt making it unusable. And you couldn’t use a WMP11 on W7.

    So, Major, as a consumer advocate it is like you really don’t care at all. Why is that?

    Sorry, asked you a question on your site, I know you don’t answer those.

    MS PR FLUNKieZ.

  • Anonymous

    Everyone step up and tell Major what you think of him not answering questions on his own blog. He is prolly too busy… pretending to care about his own blog. Crazy.

  • Anonymous

    Magnificent! I can’t wait for the new dashboard update & Windows 8!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonah-Falcon/525044162 Jonah Falcon

    But will you be able to play Xbox 360 games on Windows 8, Larry? That’s the rumor.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares!!!

  • Anonymous

    No, that rumor is false.

  • Anonymous

    So, are they porting the Windows Phone OS to the PC with Windows 8?

  • Anonymous

    If Windows 9 came out now for free it wouldn’t be worth it. Can’t believe Major Nopay is selling this.

  • Anonymous

    So, Windows 7 did just come out. Okay, thanks.

  • Anonymous

    Is there a free upgrade to XP?

  • Anonymous

    I like how Major doesn’t answer questions on his own blog, then filters his responders Joystiq and Kotaku style. Krazy.

  • Anonymous

    He still hasn’t answered a single question on his own blog?

    What is the purpose of this?

    Major – “yes”

    Crazy MS.

  • Anonymous

    Too busy typing about MJ Fox’s limitiations, Major. Do your job. There are forty folks ready to do it for you, Pach rider and payer.

  • Anonymous

    Major if you are there honk.

  • http://twitter.com/KinnonII Pedro Adame

    Can you confirm Xbox 360′s discs on Windows 8?

  • http://twitter.com/GreenMistt Miller

    You’re a strange one

  • http://profiles.google.com/thief000 J.A.J.G. Thiéfaine

    Are you being serious?
    Do you really think a current day top of the line PC can emulate an Xbox 360?
    Even if they would release a PCI-E add-in card with 360 hardware on it, it would kill their core console business.

    The answer is clearly: NO!
    This is just a renaming of the GfWL service for PC games all under the XBOX banner, which I think is great.

    I’m running the developer build x64 of Windows 8, just to get some insight and what to expect, right now and I can say it is very stable.

  • http://twitter.com/GreenMistt Miller

    Steam is great, and has way better sales/deals than MS will ever have. Xbl is great too, but it won’t be turning steam into “hot air”. From your comment it is clear you don’t game on PC (otherwise you wouldn’t be saying that), so, in that case, why do you care if it beats steam in sales or not? That is a sign of blind fanboyism.

  • http://twitter.com/ImTeddeRz James

    xbox disks already play on pc you just need the right programs to rip them. but to play them there is not a emulator yet as your computer specs are not high enough

  • http://twitter.com/Hugz_Plz Evan Rodney

    uh…wont it just be way out competed by steam?

  • http://twitter.com/boeboelord Boe2

    If they could somehow make XBLA games work on window 8 they have a chance. Otherwise good luck, especially when steam decides to implement a metro interface.

  • http://twitter.com/boeboelord Boe2

    If they could somehow make XBLA games work on window 8 they have a chance. Otherwise good luck, especially when steam decides to implement a metro interface.

  • http://twitter.com/boeboelord Boe2

    If they could somehow make XBLA games work on window 8 they have a chance. Otherwise good luck, especially when steam decides to implement a metro interface.

  • http://profiles.google.com/thief000 J.A.J.G. Thiéfaine

    I think you can bet good money that is what is going to be announced later in the week. Not throught emulation but through updated developer tools that will make a direct compilation of an XBLA game for Windows a piece of cake.

  • http://profiles.google.com/thief000 J.A.J.G. Thiéfaine

    I think you can bet good money that is what is going to be announced later in the week. Not throught emulation but through updated developer tools that will make a direct compilation of an XBLA game for Windows a piece of cake.

  • http://profiles.google.com/thief000 J.A.J.G. Thiéfaine

    I think you can bet good money that is what is going to be announced later in the week. Not throught emulation but through updated developer tools that will make a direct compilation of an XBLA game for Windows a piece of cake.

  • http://twitter.com/boeboelord Boe2

    if the game was written in XNA, a windows port would be easy. A lot of XBLA games are written directly for 360 hardware though :/

  • http://twitter.com/boeboelord Boe2

    if the game was written in XNA, a windows port would be easy. A lot of XBLA games are written directly for 360 hardware though :/

  • http://twitter.com/boeboelord Boe2

    if the game was written in XNA, a windows port would be easy. A lot of XBLA games are written directly for 360 hardware though :/

  • http://twitter.com/Hugz_Plz Evan Rodney

    all good points! but will the cost for a monthly or yearly subscription to xbox live remain? that could tilt the odds for steam

  • http://profiles.google.com/thief000 J.A.J.G. Thiéfaine

    There never was a subscription for GfWL on PC and there won’t be for this either. I do agree however that the subscriptions on the XBOX need to be changed somewhat, especially the Gold requirement for services that require an additional paid subscription.

  • http://twitter.com/Hugz_Plz Evan Rodney

    Seems my argument is invalid.

  • ElektroDragon

    No, I do also game on the PC, and yes, I use Steam.  But since I made the 360 my primary platform instead of the PC back in 2005, I really only want to play PC games with GFWL… i.e. Achievements.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=674106424 Devon Edwards

    So there’s no need for an Xbox console anymore?

  • Jeffrey Morton

    Why would you need to fully emulate an X360? Isn’t the whole point of Microsoft’s design philosophy to use high level software-based solutions for games… high-level software that could be ported? Couldn’t they use Hyper-V (which is integrated in Windows 8), for the situations that call for it?  I don’t think you’d need a full hardware emulation, just ported system software.

  • http://twitter.com/333tennis The

    I’m guessing this will be a sort of entertainment portal replacing windows media center yes I know that’s still there but in the long run.

    One thing MS should do if this is going to work is have a filter so touch, gamepad and keyboard/mouse games can all be filtered by users if Microsoft is not going to limit what kind of games are sold through this as if I’m on a tablet I might want to see just touch titles only.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZEMAROLRT4K2P3VOMGIZDHNTD4 David

    I think you’ll find there was. And Microsoft stopped charging because the uptake for Windows Live Gold was very low.

  • http://twitter.com/OoMelyannaoO Chiara Pasquini

    Looks awesome.
    I wonder if the price point of games for Windows 8 – XBLA will be more similar to WP7 games or to “real” XBLA games.

  • http://twitter.com/mattakadanja Matt Turner

    Yes, GFWL was the same price as XBL…until it failed to make an impression in the marketplace.  No one wanted to pay to play pc online games when they never had to before. So, they droppped the price to free.

  • http://twitter.com/karlcramer Karl Cramer

    Troll, troll, troll. The latest game that’s taking the nation by storm! Spot the lame, boorish, inflammatory comments that make this once fun blog the equal of YouTube videos.

    Major, wasn’t the point of moving the comments system over to Disqus so that you could ban jerks?

  • SiNTAX

    Really love the metro interface, but please please please can we have the option to “hide avatar” please!

  • J TRIPLE DASH

    the games on demand version of red dead redemption never got the patch that was needed to play the new dlc and has made the game near unplayable. why is this constantly happening? it happened with street fighter and a few other games in the past and I thought that would be the end of these situations but sadly its not. It was said the price of the “god” was for “convenience to the player” is that really the case when god users get treated like this? I phoned Ms and they said rockstar are working to sort the situation and I asked why no one at the live end made sure that the correct content/updates went out to all versions and the guy said its the devs that send it out not Ms. BULLSHIT!!! I won’t be buying anymore god after this as Ms likes to forget about us and makes us wait longer then anyone else. I’m even on the verge of getting rid of my flopbox because of the poor treatment it gives to xbla games & their devs and also us who pay a monthly fee for what? You are taking the piss now Ms

  • http://twitter.com/tbhjr Tim Higginbotham, Jr

    I’ll keep Xbox Live on my Xbox, thank you.

  • http://twitter.com/AsladaGSX Aslada GSX

    PC で XBLA Hexic が出来るってこと?

    Can I play XBLA games — examply, Hexic. –  on pc ?

  • Logic Squirrel

    No thank you.

  • Andrei Marincean

    If it’s going to make me pay 60 bucks a year to play online on my pc, I’m throwing my PC out the window and move in the forest.

  • http://Xbox720Release.net Xbox 720

    Thats what microsoft is going to offer in windows 8. Xbox Live tv shows through your windows, Best features really it is. play with your xbox.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001756392152 Julian Schurgers

    Music and video are integrated in Xbox Live, so what is gonna happen with Zune? I really like the brand Zune, so please keep it. And what is gonna happen to Games for Windows – Live?

  • John Borsberry

    this is unmistakably the direct opposite of what PC GAMERS want. fuck you microsoft, take your shit system off my games and leave it to someone who knows how to manage content (steam).

  • http://www.facebook.com/dr.furry Francisco Medina

    really not digging this, not only because i don’t game on consoles and it’s a shitty addition i’ll never use, but it also means the 360 is going to be around longer. with that shitty years old hardware still floating around, developers won’t work harder to develop better games.

  • http://twitter.com/ParthMakeo Raymond Mallozzi

    Xbox is a console game.

    PC is on it’s own. In a favorite meme…LEAVE PC ALONE! LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!

  • Anonymous

    To all those people complaining tell me why are you complaning about Xbox on windows 8 on Major Nelson’s blog he is the face of Xbox Live if you dont like Xbox Live and Xbox why are you here?

  • http://www.facebook.com/alijahgreen Ahmad J Nicholas

    Geeks are retarded, lack of common sense or just a bunch of haters (I hate that phrase), because see Microsoft about to take control again.  cruel back in your cave because the light is hurting your eyes.  Half a brain would tell you: maybe I still can Play WOW like I always have.  Idiots 

  • http://www.facebook.com/xboxfreak2 Glen Hill

    why don’t you shut up, geeks aren’t retarded

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Balmung-Taishou/100000557848545 Balmung Taishou

    To a True PC gamer the addition of XBL on a PC engine is blatantly blasphemy. Especially considering that most PC games are Serial key based this seems to be irrelevant and  potentially devastating to the over all image of XBL remember GWL its a mess.

  • http://twitter.com/Kadim_Alpha Kadim Baghdadi

    Well this is just a service, like shopping and watching Inside Xbox. Full games have nothing to do with it. So dont worry, PC games are still the same

  • http://www.facebook.com/Avantegardener Peter Fitzsimons

    You know what, I’m really liking this cross platform UI intergration. Bravo.

  • http://www.retro-gamers.net Jamie Greenland

    XBL is about so much more than gaming these days, as you can see the above screenshot includes video and music, in addition to games. I think XBL is going to mash together WMC and GFWL and it could work really well. This isn’t going to change how games are made, or how we play them, it’s just going to change how we access them. Personally, I’m hoping for a Metro version of Steam, that would just be awesome.

  • http://twitter.com/SaadElBoury Saad El Boury

    kudos!

  • Anonymous

    oh well guess this is the 1st step to yearly sub’s for playing games on a pc trust microsoft to kill of the pc gaming industry!!1

  • Anonymous

    oh well guess this is the 1st step to yearly sub’s for playing games on a pc trust microsoft to kill of the pc gaming industry!!1

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like “true PC gamers” are ignorant of the FACT that XBL is born from DirectX, itself a Windows PC service. It’s always amusing to watch “true PC gamers” try to generalize PC gaming in such an idiotic, simplistic manner.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UGKGLEVXY242JH5GBTYOMCGPBU gdsmkfn

    Is this going to be available for Xbox 360 users for their dashboard??? Will this effect backgrounds for the dashboard for the 360′s???? I want my Xbox 360 Dashboard to look like this too??????? I just want to use Bing & Youtube through my xbox 360!!!!!!

  • Steven Melton

    so excited to see this coming!! Going to be fantastic

  • Peter M.

    They already tried that with windows live and failed. I don’t think they’ll do that again.
    Pc gamers don’t want to pay for online play and they don’t have to.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, both the XBox 360 and Windows 8 will have this dashboard. The XBox 360 is supposed to Beta its dashboard in October.

    No word on theme support, but I imagine they will still be there.

  • http://danielalexan80.wordpress.com/ Dazzle369

    Can’t wait to get my hands on this thing!

  • Anonymous

    I’ve been playing minesweeper on my phone and getting achievements.  It just feels wrong. :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/JMR28 Jose Martinez Ruiz

    awesome! windows 8 has great potential and im excited that it doesn’t use a lot of resources to run.

  • Anonymous

    Why not take Steam’s penis out of your mouth and open your mind to a service that might push PC gaming even further?  Competition is always good for the consumer.  If Microsoft does well, Steam and Xbox Live compete and get better because of that competition.

  • Anonymous

    Um, is it just me or does this just sound like windows live, like i don’t see a difference. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/kuulamiles Kuula Miles

    When will my WinPhone be friendly/syncable to my Xbox 360?

  • http://www.facebook.com/kuulamiles Kuula Miles

    When will my WinPhone be friendly/syncable to my Xbox 360?

  • Anonymous

    Kwitcherbellyachin. If you plan on using Steam, use Steam.

    For those more familiar with Xbox Live, it’s a nice feature which uses a bit of cohesion between platforms.

    I wonder if buying a game available for both platforms will make it owned on both? Probably not, but it would be pretty cool.

  • Anonymous

    There is a strong hint in the preview they showed yesterday that this might be the case for Windows Phone games at least. It’s possible that they could do this for Xbox Live Arcade games, which would really, really be nice to be able to play on PC and XBox 360 just like Game Room. They do this with Zune content already, so it could be done for small Arcade titles.

  • Nick Baas

    They’re gonna charge for it now.

  • Nick Baas

    They’re gonna charge for it now.

  • Peter M.

    I doubt that.

  • Peter M.

    I doubt that.

  • Anonymous

    The Xbox dashboard looks a thousand times better than the Windows one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kuulamiles Kuula Miles

    They need to fix & release new stuff for Game Room before I’ll buy any Windows 8 stuff. Where’s pack 14?

  • Anonymous

    There is no Pack14. Chrome Studios (the developer) closed down due to financial trouble.

    I was referencing the buy once, play on two platforms capability that Game Room has.

  • Anonymous

    the XBox dashboard is changing this fall to match what you see above.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, that’s what I meant. Win8 Start screen = ugly. New Xbox Dash = pretty.

  • http://twitter.com/333tennis The

    I really hope MS does one thing which would be very cool. Allow remote playing of PC games under Windows 8 through your Xbox 360 connected to your TV.

    Your PC does the rendering and the 360 views the output allowing you to play games like Age of Empires online though your TV using keyboard/mouse or gamepad for other titles. Windows 8 already has the technology to do this and it would be a big plus point for PC gamers while benefiting Xbox 360 userbase as well tying it altogether.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_C22GJMCYWP5BUALNMGCTLFUEHA O Malley

    Going by the alternating OS release formula that has rung true to this day (95, 2000, XP, 7 were worth buying, 98, ME, Vista were not) I’ll give this one a miss. Looking forward to the revised version in a years’ time though!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SNYZT2YWZW6B5R3JK2JGKEKZIE Scruffy On the

    I dont know about the rest of you, but I am tired of paying for themes and then they change the dashboard. In effect breaking the content we pay for.  I say we demand our mony back from MS for all themes purchased.  As this is the second time they have pulled this BS.

  • Anonymous

    Major Nelson, if you want to make Windows games better integrated for Live, unbundle achievements from the main backbone of Games for Windows

    I should be able to add to my gamerscore even if they’re using Steam

    I’m a sad puppy right now, because i”m buying PC Battlefield 3 for the best game experience, but I’m not able to get what I really want, which is the best game and my gamerscore all in one go.

  • Anonymous

    Then tell EA you want the PC version of Battlefield 3 on Live instead of Origin.

  • Anonymous

    Since EA owns origin, and is using BF3 to launch it, I seriously doubt that they would be willing to do it. However, Origin at least currently lacks an achievement system, which by opening up the ability to pop achievements regardless of DRM provider would solve that problem wouldn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    Origins is also going to eventually have its own achievements too. It’s meant to be much more than a DRM provider. The root issue is with EA, not Microsoft.

    Personally, I see Origin as being completely redundant and a waste of time & resources. Furthermore, it only fractures the gaming community based upon publisher, and goes against the unified community that Live, Steam, and PSN build.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000360540238 Clyde Swanker IV

    This is interesting. I hope they do not have a charge fee to play games online, like they tried on the early build of GFWL… Will we be able to chat like (msn messenger) and talk to players and accept game invites just via our desktop on a pop up window?  I have been looking forward to a messenger app on the GFWL side. But hasn’t happened yet. Will we be able to play Xbox 360 games on the new Windows 8? If not will there be more hit titles from 360 coming to GFWL? Say Halo 3, odst, reach, Halo 1 C.E.A. and other games that use the Live Feature? many games are on GFWs thing but 25% maybe at most use the LIVE System in my opinion :/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Fox/1396218009 Justin Fox

    u all do know the new windows will have a dual os on it means u can have what you see above or the old look as well…

    i read that on cnet when windows 8 was told to the public

  • Anonymous

    Please please please tell me that at least this would support NTFS media!!!? Seriously Microsoft, after SIX solid years of XBOX 360, it still does not support Microsoft’s own star filesystem!!! And look at the irony, HFS+ has been there from day one!! This shameful bottleneck is the only contributing factor which made me purchase the lame ASUS HD2 media player. Comments!!?

  • http://www.facebook.com/Br4zko4ngel Angel Ramirez

    Can we play Xbox games in this new windows ?

  • Peter M.

    With better graphics and free online multiplayer?

  • Anonymous

    XBox 360 Games –> NO (the emulation needs are far too great)

    Arcade –> YES (if the developer publishes for XBox Live on Windows 8)

  • http://twitter.com/tommisas tommi saira

    Why would you emulate thing you can do natively?

  • http://twitter.com/tommisas tommi saira

    Why would you emulate thing you can do natively?

  • http://twitter.com/StrikeSudden XboxLiveStrikeSudden

    People do not want pcs any more. they are getting ipads. People do not want pc gaming alliance trying to say we need pcs. People do not need a ceo who has lifetime stock options in dell trying to improve his portfollio by trying to ruin xbox.  All previous attempts to mix games have failed.  Your customers have spoken though they do not come over here.

  • http://twitter.com/StrikeSudden XboxLiveStrikeSudden

    People do not want pcs any more. they are getting ipads. People do not want pc gaming alliance trying to say we need pcs. People do not need a ceo who has lifetime stock options in dell trying to improve his portfollio by trying to ruin xbox.  All previous attempts to mix games have failed.  Your customers have spoken though they do not come over here.

  • Anonymous

    Because the 360 is PPC based, not the typical x86-x64 chipset that PC’s typically are. You would need a pretty high powered system to emulate the 360 CPU and chipset, which consumes valuable resources that would normally be allocated for the game. Since games are developed differently by each developer, there is no “one size fits all” way to ensure 100% compatibility for all games.

    See the Xbox 360 emulation of original Xbox titles as an example.

  • Anonymous

    I’m a customer and I don’t remember saying what you’re saying.

    I welcome this on PC.

  • Anonymous

    PC gaming is doing just fine, just pop over to Steam to see how well it’s doing. People have been saying PC gaming is dying since the mid 90s and it’s still going strong. As for tablets, they are not replacing PCs, people use tablets as secondary devices. You can’t even start using a new iPad before you’ve connected it to a PC/Mac.

  • Anonymous

    So this is a rebrand of the god awful Games for Windows Live?

  • Jon Marra

    People don’t want PCs anymore? Maybe you should tell that to the uprising of PC game tournaments with Starcraft 2, League of Legends, and DOTA2. PC gaming is far from dead. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/quintenj Quinten Johnson

    iPads are toys for adults. They are innovative and very useful toys, but there are about a million things I’d rather do work on my much more powerful PC with a 25 inch monitor. Also, it was an odd move to bring up the iPad in a game-related discussion. Maybe talk about consoles, but the iPad is so weak for gaming compared to a PC or console.

    On a side note, I wonder if this will house all the games on your computer, or just ones owned through Xbox Live. I would like to see steam integration, but that is an almost guaranteed no no.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kristopher-C-Fjeldos/100000068247298 Kristopher C Fjeldos

    Windows 8: banned from Xbox live by watching Japanese porn

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