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February 20th, 2008 @ 06:53
Chris Early, general manager of Microsoft’s casual-games program, gave a heavy hint that John Schappert’s GDC keynote today is likely to include content about how Live Anywhere gamimg will link Windows Mobile, Vista and Xbox 360 together.
“If you like that sort of thing, I would strongly recommend you go to Microsoft’s keynote opening GDC, where you’ll see a little bit of this announced for the first time,” said Early. However, he did not go into further detail. “I think I’ve kept it vague enough not to get into trouble,” he concluded.
Early was speaking at yesteday’s Casual Games Summit, ahead of GDC, which starts today. The whole idea of linking up the three Windows platforms was announced in spectacular fashion at E3 2006 in a presentation that included Bil Gates himself. Little has been heard of the programme since.
Schappert’s keynote begins today at 6.30pm GMT.
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February 20th, 2008 at 9:10 am
They showed a friends list app on a Windows Mobile a good year+ ago. Never actually turned up as an app though. I was interested as I have a Windows Mobile phone, but am likely to upgrade soon to something with a less laboured and clunky interface.
February 20th, 2008 at 9:12 am
IIRC, wasn’t the main part of the whole Live Anywhere thing friends lists? Were there actually any gaming apps aside from that?
February 20th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Just a thought. When they tried cross platform stuff before (Shadowrun) it didn’t work. PC gamers wouldn’t pay for something which they have had for free. If they want to make this work it has to be free for PC gamers … and that leads to the prediction that Live will become free on 360.