With all the hubbub surrounding the Windows 8 keynote today there really wasn’t much mention of Microsoft’s other marvel Xbox Live. With the integration the latest Xbox Dashboard is supposed to have, it is fitting to offer that integration between computer and console. This afternoon, Major Nelson confirmed that Microsoft will be bringing Xbox Live to the PC with Xbox LIVE on Windows! We are confirming that we will be bringing Xbox LIVE to the PC with Xbox LIVE...

Way back in 2008 we had a nice little update to our Xbox 360 Dashboard that actually made you feel lik you were playing on a Next Gen console. Here we are 3 years later and it’s about time we feel like the rest of the Windows world. With the Windows Phone 7 out and in some pockets everywhere, and Windows 8 on the verge, Microsoft wants their entire lineup to feel like a tiled social dream. They bring this idea to their highly successful gaming platform in hopes to...

Microsoft first debuted it’s snazzy live group video chatting service back at CES 2011 – which we covered. And here we are, a mere 7 months later and we can finally see the dimples come to life! Avatar Kinect is a free download to any Xbox Live Gold member, as well as a limited time trial offer for those of you still rocking the free account for the next month and a half. Avatar Kinect, available today, lets you – or rather your personalized avatar – interact...

We’ve seen the Zune do what it does best – suck. For a long, long time we’ve had to see the brand thrown at us whether it be at retailers, Microsoft’s website, or something I see every day – the XBox Dashboard. I’ve been longing for the day I won’t see that first on my ‘Video Marketplace’ section on the Dashboard, or maybe a day I can re-arrange the listings to have Netflix come first. Instead of that happening, rumors...

[So 20x XP SDCC Event is going to run exactly SDCC hours - July 22nd, 12:30 PM EDT till July 25th, 8 PM EDT.] Gears of War Producer Rod Fergusson released a tweet a couple days ago bribing the Tweetters out there, that Gears of War 2 will have a Double XP weekend to coincide with the San Diego Comic-Con. His bribe: # of followers divided by 500, that will be the number of double xp. Within just a few short hours, he jumped up over 4500. Over the past day, he has OVER...