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Rock Band Network Now Serving You

The most social aspect of Rock Band which was revealed last year known as Rock Band Network is now officially ready for primetime. MTV is promoting it by saying that it is designed to allow independent or unknown musicians to get their music in the game.
The program allows these independent musicians the chance to create [...]

Blindfolded Man Finishes The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Using Skype

Social gaming and networking have been showing dominance with communication, sharing and competition, but rarely do we see a group of people team up to collectively prove a point or for a cause. Jordan Verner from Ontario Canada was told at a young age that he would go blind. Despite that actually not happening, he [...]

LittleBigPlanet is now Two Million Levels Strong

Edge Online is reporting on Sony’s announcement that LittleBigPlanet now features over two million user created levels. Mike Perona of SCEA had this to say about the significant milestone:
“Congratulations to all of the LittleBigPlanet community, as we hit another big user-generated milestone with over two million levels created and posted on the Share Planet,”
LittleBigPlanet hit one [...]

N Squared: Netflix & Nintendo’s Wii Team Up

Netflix and Nintendo recently announced plans to bring a little more joy into the world. To the delight of twenty-six million US Wii owners, Netflix’s online streaming video service will soon be available through Nintendo’s Wii gaming console. Netflix, based in the Bay Area, boasts eleven million subscribers to its DVD-by-mail business. Fifty percent of [...]

Microsoft Reveals Social Console Arcade Service: Xbox 360 Game Room

Microsoft’s newly announced Xbox Game Room is coming. Get ready to relive your coin-op glory days with 1000+ classic arcade titles headed to Xbox 360 over the next three years. The retro gaming service is slated to launch this Spring and will also be available for Windows Live on PC.
The Xbox Game Room will offer [...]

Sorta Social: Xbox LIVE Arcade Sales Analysis for November 2009

November saw 9 new game releases on Xbox LIVE Arcade (XBLA), and Gamasutra sister-site, GamerBytes just posted some interesting analysis of the console’s social section. For all those gamers willing to set Modern Warfare 2 aside long enough to play anything else, XBLA had some quality new titles to offer last month.
On the casual game [...]

Games On Demand Coming to Microsoft Windows LIVE

On December 15, Games for Windows will become a bit more like its console counterpart, Xbox LIVE. Yesterday Microsoft announced that Games for Windows LIVE will soon include a portal for accessing and downloading LIVE-enabled titles courtesy of Games on Demand.

Microsoft’s social strategy here is clear: Games for Windows delivers a truly connected experience for [...]

Visceral Games Says Go to Hell with Dante’s Inferno App

Visceral Games, an Electronic Arts studio recently announced ‘Go to Hell’, an all-new social application inspired by the upcoming game, Dante’s Inferno. Go to Hell “takes the poem’s canonized nine circles of hell, and brings them into everyday life. With the click of a button, anyone can send a friend foe, place, product or brand [...]

Facebook on Xbox 360: 2 Million Users in First Week

Since Microsoft enabled access to Facebook on the Xbox 360, over 2 million users have logged into the social network from their consoles. If you’re counting, that’s 10 percent of a total 20 million registered users currently on Xbox Live. Not bad for Facebook’s first week of availability.
Clearly Facebook is leading, but other recent social [...]