Xbox Live Confirmed for Windows 8

[Shawn Zipay]

During Microsoft's BUILD conference the company confirmed that Xbox Live would be 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.

More information can be found by watching a stream of the keynote from BUILD.

[stilla-killa]

Re: Xbox Live Confirmed for Windows 8

But I take it that this doesn't mean playing Xbox 360 games on your PC?

[Anarchy1]

I don't think so, but I think I may have read a rumor that they may be trying to do that. But that kinda defeats the purpose of having a standardized console that is easy to code for. Maybe this will make it easier to cross-platform games between the PC XBL and the 360?

[CptainCrunch]

Re: Xbox Live Confirmed for Windows 8

They could use an emulator though as the software foundation. A virtual Xbox. It would always be the same and isolate issues.

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