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Xbox Live Integrates Facebook and Twitter
Many social media commentators have discussed the possibility of a perfect fit between Facebook Connect and online games. At yesterday’s E3 conference in sunny Los Angeles, Microsoft formally announced that both Facebook Connect and Twitter would be used to interface directly with the Xbox Live service starting in the autumn of 2009.
This would mean that friends and associated networks of gamers would have the option to compete against each other and subsequently publish the results to the respective social network or website. Early screen shots that have been previewed at the E3 conference are said to be more rudimentary. Gizmondo have alluded to the fact that one potential feature would give users the ability to send in-game screen shots in real-time directly to Facebook and Twitter.
This is potentially a massive step forward for online gaming and social networking. It will be interesting to see if the sum of the two elements combined, are in fact greater than their value as individual entities. Until now, online gaming and social networking have been confined to the realms of casual games such as Chess and Scrabble. Now it seems we will witness a steady influx of mass-market gaming content and even potentially some hardcore games and FPS (first person shooter) titles. This does not threaten the existing casual gaming market, it gives global publishers like EA the perfect platform to open their products up to a huge new audience.
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