Chillingo announces Crystal - the social gaming platform for the iPhone at Develop Conference in Brighton today. Crystal will embrace the powerful features of the new iPhone OS 3.0 and provide developers with a fully integrated and transparent framework to include social features in their games. Crystal is iPhone’s answer to Microsoft’s Xbox Live. Crystal will be free for everyone. It ...

Developer Chillingo this week announced Crystal, a social gaming platform for the iPhone and iPod touch that it says will be that platform's "answer to Microsoft's Xbox Live." The company said that Crystal will be a free service allowing players to create profiles, add friends, store achievements and game histories, and compete with others via direct challenges. Sponsored Topics: iPhone ...

Microsoft has gone further into the details of Xbox on its Windows Phone 7 Series platform, and the way that its popular gaming service will be tied into its mobile OS. Joe Belfiore – the vice president of Windows Phone – was the man who showed off the details of the Windows 7 and he saved the Xbox integration until last. Windows Phone 7 Series handsets will have premium games and will...

Microsoft's plans to enhance the gaming capabilities of its mobile operating system are known to most users around the world already, especially since the company announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week that we're to see Xbox LIVE integration with the OS, yet the exact details on the matter still lack. And w...

The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series, where its interface inspired by Zune, real-time SNS updates from Facebook & Windows Live services, Xbox Live mobile gaming, integrated & sync through Zune software; for those who has Zune HD, you'll not feel strange about it. Check out video after the link .

It looks like Microsoft will be bringing Xbox 360 LIVE Enabled games to Windows Mobile, as they've apparently hired a Principle Program Manager who will help “bring Xbox LIVE enabled games to Windows Mobile” and “will focus specifically on what makes gaming experiences “LIVE Enabled” through aspects such as avatar integration, social interactions, and multi-scree...

Found under: Windows Phone 7, Xbox Live, Microsoft, XNA 4.0, , Just a couple of days ago we heard that Windows Phone 7 handsets will be able to run the same games Xbox 360 console do. Thats an amazing feature which will certainly convince quite a few Xbox 360 enthusiasts to get a Windows Phone 7 handset when they become available later this year. Today we hear that Microsoft talked about XNA 4.0 w...

One of the cool features baked right into Microsofts Windows Phone 7 is its hub-centric Xbox Live games panel. By connecting Windows Phone 7 directly to your Xbox Live account, you can keep up to date on your Xbox Live account points, avatars, unlocked achievements, etc. And, because the Windows Phone 7 platform is

A lot of information continues to come out about Windows Phone 7 Series, much of it from last week’s Global Developer Conference. More of the hardware specs have come to light, and Microsoft gave developers a good taste of the gaming potential. This week I’ll offer up some of this info, including links to videos from GDC discussing the Xbox Live features and gaming potential. read more

We already got a look at Microsoft's little XNA show-and-tell as relates to Windows Phone 7 Series, but our colleague Andrew Yoon over at Joystiq had a chance for longer sit-down with Xbox Live general manager Ron Pessner and XNA Game Studio manager Michael Klucher at GDC today, and he's been kind enough to share the interview with us. The main topic of conversation was the company'...