News September 30, 2011
XBL Rumor: 2 for 1 Sale!
Written By: Bryant Crawley.
Date: 09/29/2011
1st Rumor:
If this rumor is to be true then it's gonna be a great Holiday season if your an Xbox Live Gold Member! It seems that not only is Microsoft is in talks with getting television service from Comcast and Verizon, Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is in talks to adding additional content.
"Microsoft is in talks with almost two dozen providers of music, sports, movies and TV shows in the U.S. and Europe, and may announce an expanded Xbox Live streaming service as soon as next week, said one of the people, who weren't authorized to speak publicly," Bloomberg reports. But it's not just Comcast and Verizon. Microsoft also "expects to sign deals with Time Warner Inc. (TWX)'s HBO cable channel, Sony Pictures Entertainment's Crackle streaming service, NBC Universal's Bravo and Syfy channels and Lovefilm UK, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)," one of Bloomberg's sources says.
The report says that this could all be announced next week, well we only have one week to see if this rumor comes true!
2nd Rumor:
It seems that November 15th seems to be the date that the new Xbox Live Dashboard will go out to the masses. How do we know this? Well it seems that an internal memo from PayPal seemed to point to that date! Another interesting thing to think about is November 15th is the 10 year anniversary of the original Xbox Launch. Just something to think about!