The free app allows you to:
Read and send messages to Xbox 360 friends
Manage your friends list, invite new friends,
Read and Edit your full LIVE profile (name, bio, motto)
Change your avatar features/items with the avatar closet
View and compare your achievement progress with friends
I’ve spent a few minutes with the app, and so far it’s very slick, featuring full 3D avatars and plenty of content, though it is a tad bit slow at times. The app has three categories: Home, Social and Games.
In Home you get access to a bunch of videos including some features and trailer, as well as some neat articles like the Gamer Spotlight and the poll, which you can actually vote on through the app.
Social is where you can see your friends, messages and even the recently added beacons, which lets you put out a call for friends to play games with. The friend’s list lets you do everything you can do on your Xbox 360, aside from gaming with them of course. You can also edit your avatar in social.
Games lets you browse through the games you’ve played and check out the achievements you’ve unlocked and what is still locked. Tapping on an unlocked achievement brings you to a description floating above your dancing avatar.
It’s great to see that Microsoft isn’t limiting Xbox Live apps to their phone, now they just need to bring the rest of the Windows Phone features over.
McGarnical
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:05 AMLooks pretty good to me. Made it much easier to do a friends-list purge just now! (Still not as easy as it could be, but much easier than via the dashboard.)
I’d like to be able to easily see items that are on sale, but don’t see any on this app. Is that because there’s nothing on sale, or have they done a silly thing and omitted them from this app?
Anyway, good to see Microsoft finally getting onto this. Now, I’d just like to see one from Steam, Battlefield 3, and Modern Warfare 3.
PuppyLicks
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:09 AMMS and Apple playing nice? Cool.
Matt
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:26 AMWhat is the App actually called?
A lot of unoffical xbox stuff on there..
D.C.
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:27 AMMy Xbox Live by the Microsoft Corporation
McGarnical
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:39 AMI had this trouble too. Then I clicked on the iTunes link in the article.* Seriously couldn’t find it in the store because of all the unofficial stuff.
*I was so tempted to make an ‘arrow to the knee’ type joke there.
Black Dahlia NZ
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:36 AMcan I ask what the arrow to the knee joke is? have seen it a few times around and didnt get it.
McGarnical
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:46 AMThe guards in Skyrim will often say to you, “I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee”. It starts to get amusing after about the 5th guard has said it. It’s becoming a meme now.
Black Dahlia NZ
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:49 AMaah I see, sorta like the “I was at the airfield Fisher” from splinter cell, cheers.
Paul
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:25 AMI guess that’s what happens when you have an app store with hundreds of thousands of useless apps. Sure Apple may have the biggest choice of apps around, but sometimes it makes it way too difficult to siphon out the good from the crap!
GoodOleTones
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:30 AMMeh, its not for me
SithLordMills
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:31 AMwhen is it going to be on android!!!?? the free one we have is crap.
brent3000
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:35 AMI guess this is the Xbox hub like on WP7?
Looks just like a WP7 with the buttons and the layout :D
Tristan Damen
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:37 AMLove my WP7. Been enjoying this funtionality for just over a year.
McGarnical
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:52 AMWhile we’re playing “my phone OS is bigger than your phone OS”, I think the functionality of this app is not as good as other good iOS apps. It’s also a bit slow. It’s just a huge improvement over having nothing.
markd
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 3:08 PMyou are incredibly awesome.
Barno
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:27 PMSO awesome.
HotDamn!
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:11 AMDownloaded!
HotDamn!
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:25 AMFor free! ;-)
FatShady
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:12 AMDAMN… I just bought an unofficial app this morning on the way to work!!!!!!! damn ($2 bucks so not really that much damn.. but damn!
FatShady
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:14 AM*)
fail
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:32 AMneeds ios 4.3 #fail
Blood Apathy
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:52 AMit has a few semi cool things on it, but not a must have.
Thomas
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 11:33 AMGlitch’n for me. I just get the xbox website with an error message, whaaat?! It has taken them long enough to come out with an official XBL app.
James Mac
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 11:36 AMWhen’s the one for wp7 that lets us control our xboxs?
PHuZZy
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 11:59 AMThat’s in the Windows Phone Marketplace already “Xbox Companion” http://bit.ly/uMPLgD
warcroft
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 12:23 PMYeah Kotaku, lets have an article about the Xbox app for iOS, but nothing on Xbox Companion.
Mike
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 1:28 PMhttp://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/12/control-your-xbox-with-your-windows-phone/
warcroft
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2:23 PMYeah, Ive seen it spruked at Giz and LH, but not the GMAING site Kotaku.
McGarnical
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 3:09 PMI love me some gmaing.
Mr Waffle
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 5:03 PMI don’t really “get” it… what’s the point?
(I ask that as I download it anyway)
Mr Waffle
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 5:04 PMAlso I noticed the link in the article is specifically Australian. *gasp* articles edited to suit the audience of kotaku.au? CENSORSHIP!
Brian
Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 2:02 PMNow this on a droid