Microsoft Australia has announced that XBox Live, its online gaming platform, will be available locally in October this year--up to three months behind the launch of the equivalent service for PlayStation from rival gaming platform operator Sony.
Microsoft may backtrack on a pledge not to use its online gaming service to crack down on "mod chips"--chips that modify the Xbox console so it can run copied game discs and unlicensed software.
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now has more than a million subscribers for Xbox Live, the online gaming service for the company's video game console.
Xbox Live will launch in Australia on 8 October, several months after it launched in the rest of the world.
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The new interactive Telstra "flagship" store will be open from 2 November. Dubbed T.Life, the store is located at 400 George Street, on the corner of George and King on the group floor of the Telstra building.
Microsoft has used its Tech Ed conference for its first Australian public showing of its Xbox Live Internet gaming service, but the launch hasn't been without its glitches.
Microsoft has today announced the local availability of its XBox Live online service, which will go on sale in October.
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