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Kinect may be touted as the Xbox 360′s answer to motion gaming, but it’s not just technology meant to make you the controller. It can also let you interact with television, movies, music and the Xbox 360 like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, just without the fancy gloves.
Xbox Live users under 18 outside of North America may now use the social networking tools Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm on Xbox Live. Minors in the U.S. get access Dec. 15.
Social networking hits the Xbox 360 full-force on Tuesday when the next dashboard update goes live, bringing Facebook, Twitter and Last.FM to the masses.
Right now three major features of the new Xbox 360 dashboard update — Facebook, Last.FM and Twitter — are inaccessible to users under 18. Major Nelson says that will change weeks after the update launches.
The final part of our Xbox 360 November dashboard update saves the best for last, without intending the pun. Here’s Last.FM in action on my 360, injecting a bit of Zelda and MF Doom into my system.
Microsoft have announced that they’re working on a streaming music service, similar to Europe’s Spotify, which should be ready to go live by the end of this month. We’re interested because it could hit the Xbox 360.