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Between the 27th and the 29th, Microsoft celebrate their Xtival online festival by offering a weekend of free Xbox Live Gold membership to all. Alongside the option to experience Live play in all compatible multiplayer games, the real draw surely comes from the ability to become a socially networked powerhouse for three days, able to navigate the clunky Xbox 360 Facebook client for 72 glorious hours.
Excusing the fact that while functional, Twitter and Last.fm are both feature-crippled shadows of their browser counterparts, Facebookâs Live integration takes the proverbial biscuit. Silver members can expect the joys of hopelessly navigating a live feed which is happy to spew unnecessary updates on quizzes and applications (content inaccessible through the dashboard); stripped features running at an absolute crawl; and the indescribable pleasure of joining your friend’s conversations equipped with a disgustingly wonky system of textual input. Read more →
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