Xbox Insiders in Alpha Skip Ahead & Alpha today we are flighting some new features. Multiplayer in Free-to-play games, Looking 4 Groups and Party Chat on Xbox no longer requires an Xbox Live Gold membership as we flight and test these service changes ahead of general availability
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
It's been 20 years to the day since Xbox Live brought online play to consoles.
I remember when Live turned five and they had special edition controllers made and everything. Kind of wished they would do that again for the 20th.
Happy Birthday. OG XBL (and later 360 XBL) really revolutionized online gaming on console.
Never understood the obsession with live...but I was gaming online on PC so not sure too much of what live did that the PlayStation didn't.
Today would of been the perfect day to drop halo 2 the original bc version free on gwg.... If only
Xbox Live 1.0, the first instance of online servers for the original Xbox, is set to return via Insignia, a free third-party service that's currently compatible with 20 titles, such as Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Counter-Strike.
smart move, only took them long enough.
Excellent move hopefully Sony can respond accordingly to something else free *cough* online.
I like free cloud saves on Xbox Sony you have to pay for that I hate paying to have a party chat with friends on Xbox when it's free on Playstation. We shall see how this pans out I just hope they keep it up it's a party chat you can still bull shit with your friends while not even playing the same online game. I just hope Microsoft does not buy Discord I have a feeling Discord will turn south if Microsoft snags them up.
“ The removal came after Microsoft was forced to reverse a price hike to its Xbox Live Gold subscriptions earlier this year.”
Yes good keep reversing, you’re not out of your fancy mansion driveway yet. I joke but it’s a cool move. Free f2p and party chat (didn’t even know you had to pay for that) is cool. It doesn’t apply to me though, keep going. Free online with gamepass?
This wasn't free... Wow.