Gadgetory


All Cool Mind-blowing Gadgets You Love in One Place

Windows Phone Xbox Hub, Need for Speed, & Rocket Riot

2010-10-13
xbox live right on the home screen if you've locked in with your windows live ID your avatar actually pops up within the top and then you'll see any notifications that you've got from friends to play games that will actually show up on the tile as well and that's that's new back in mobile of Congress we didn't have a lot right it's like I've announced I go straight into the game set we land right on your friend requests so these are turn based games that your friends can request to play play with you the next screen over this is all of your games Xbox or not any game that you download on the dose 17 would show up here we'd also have some trials demos from us that we would recommend with spotlight is any xbox live news so any new titles that we're releasing for that week tips and tricks on how to play a game better how to dress your avatar that kind of stuff that all shows up I have a question on the previous year what are the prices the average price on a game like the sins so we're not actually announcing pricing just yet it'll be a it'll be a range of prices and then the next screen over is your your gamer profile so you've got your avatar your gamers your gamertag and you're all up gamerscore so any xbox live game that you play on your phone will go to your olive gamerscore on your comes as well and then this is any achievement that I've unlocked recently it's not my it's Joby who just is a demo for so that's the add a box experience one really cool thing I wanted to show you guys this is a it's an application you can download and once you downloaded it upgrades the games have experienced so it becomes part of the games have for you there's a couple of big things that this app does one it takes your avatar from 2d to 3d and you can customize your avatar so you can go into the closet and change them up he's a lot more animated I can actually shaken come on and he falls down it was back up can poke him play with them a little bit I can go into the closet can change either my features or my style this is very much like the console experience this is like an extension of the xbox huh yes is it is it free that's great and is there a way to get directly to it instead of having them today Xbox up first can you put into your charger you absolutely can once you download this this just becomes the game stuff but you could so it'll be so once you click on the xbox tile it'll take you right to this but you went to the regular xbox huh and then you went only because it was an application that you needed so we wanted to be able to demo both our shoes the best ways so this is a stub demo just pour this for this particular be a little bit different it'll be a little bit different so once you download it it would just be the games come experience so for example this changes sure just to show you guys what it was I like that shirt she looks great we're going to go ahead and save that I also think why don't I try and change some of my shoes like these work the boots shows me that I say yep I like it I get out of the Style section and I save him he doesn't happiness for me this will be saved to my console as well so integrated experience with your avatar your gamerscore and your gamertag at all is seamless to the xbox live experience the other cool thing the app does it shows me all of my latest achievements this is my most recent achievement that I've unlocked these are all of my games that I have I go in the hexa crush for example will show me any achievement that I when locked or that I haven't unlocked yet so for example if i go into one that i have unlocked my avatar is happy I go into something that I haven't unlocked say something a little bit harder down here so you're able to really track all of your achievements the other thing it does is show you all of your friends so online or offline with their statuses and then if you wanted to check out what your friends are doing check out their profile check out their avatar that shows up there as well you can also send investors you can also compare your scores to theirs so you can see all of the games you guys have in common I go into extra brush for example that kind one they have an unlocked but I have unhappy and he said so a lot of interaction within the Xbox Live community and then one other big thing that the app does is it allows you to check all of your messages and send anybody within the Xbox Live community a message need for speed on there I do toys games need for speed this is an EA game I actually have the EA rep here too he wanted to just get more background or around the around the game the games are coming toward us what's up yeah so the titles we're announcing today monopoly Need for Speed sim 3 and Tetris basics covered basics covered absolutely but it's got the Xbox LIVE edition on top of it so any any wins that you have here would be part of your favorite sport so select my car show you this beautiful graphics pick our route this walks you through the scenario that you're about to do kind of sets up the plot skip it's short though you alright so worth the race so this really takes advantage of the accelerometer that's how you maneuver your car to the game support for a gyroscope we don't have any at launch can an OEM pwnage iris within our windows for example not at this point graphics look as good as iphone I play this game all the time do you want to play a little bit just with your pretty level we can make it harder for you and you can make them faster by push it yeah yeah I mean it looks good yeah looks good yes and the sense I actually think he's that one uploaded the one that's on here because we'd have to do a whole bunch of setup on it so I'll let him walk you through that but there's also some microsoft game studio games you want to show something see something else sorry for cool if their goal proper try it's pretty cool that one so this is an xbox live arcade game that we've now ported over to mobile it's been hugely successful author calls so the idea here is that your environment is completely destroyable but it does build up pretty quickly and you'll have different campaigns love either enemies let's do let's do a quick play or they give you some sort of test I love the old school rap so of course we're setting up the plot block beard is sakis and captured he's now going to take revenge he's escaping through a tunnel trying to get to the game for you guys you always got to set up the story I know I know so here I've got 10 enemies that I need to kill it's kind of giving you before you start it gives you a little bit of the lay of the land how it works is I move here to move my guy so I'll start so I need to move them this way and then I can shoot this I need to find my enemies this little little arrows down below we'll kind of direct you I can choose through all of this Oh you get hit the whole phone starts to shake too and then you can pick up additional little boosters those are the little boxes that are flying through the air 30 who I need to pick that up give me some extra power haha get out of here ok over here did oh yes Adam pick up zach phillips two more enemies where are they oh I get it back
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