Over 40 new apps coming to Xbox near you(SkyDrive,Gametrailers,MTV,Machinima...)

[maxy]

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Over 40 New Apps Coming to Xbox; New Apps Launch on Xbox LIVE This Week

Exciting news from Xbox today with more than 40 new global entertainment partners coming to Xbox LIVE, including new apps launching this week.

Between now and the spring of 2013, we’re committed to launching the following entertainment experiences on Xbox LIVE:

1. All3M (United Kingdom, United States)
2. Ameba TV (Canada, United States)
3. ARTE (Germany, France)
4. Azteca (Mexico)
5. Canalplay Infinity (France)
6. CBC’s Hockey Night (Canada)
7. CrunchyRoll (Majority of LIVE Regions)
8. Deezer (Majority of LIVE Regions)
9. Eredivisie Live (Netherlands)
10. Fightbox (Austria, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom)
11. Flixster (United States)
12. GameTrailers (Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States)
13. Globosat Muu (Brazil)
14. Gulli Replay (France)
15. HBO Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
16. IndieFlix (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States)
17. Livesport.tv (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom)
18. Machinima (Majority of LIVE Regions)
19. Maxim (United States)
20. MTV (United States)
21. MyTF1 (France)
22. MyTF1VOD (France)
23. Napster (Germany, United Kingdom)
24. Pathe Thuis (Netherlands)
25. PBS (United States)
26. PopcornFlix (United States)
27. Rai TV (Italy)
28. Sainsbury (United Kingdom)
29. Saraiva (Brazil)
30. SBS (Netherlands)
31. SF Anytime (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
32. Slacker Radio (Canada, United States)
33. SPORT1 (Austria, Germany)
34. The CW Network (United States)
35. Televisa (Mexico)
36. TV3 (Spain)
37. Viaplay (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
38. Vidéo à la Demande d’Orange (France)
39. Vimeo (United States)
40. VIVO Play (Brazil)
41. Watchever (Austria, Germany)
42. Zattoo (Germany)
43. Ziggo (Netherlands)

Also, starting today, several new apps will roll out worldwide on Xbox LIVE including1:

ARTE (Germany, France)
With the ARTE app on Xbox LIVE, you can watch an exciting mix of content from the Cultural TV station including documentaries, concerts and movies.

CinemaNow (Expanding to Canada)
CinemaNow is an Authenticated Video on Demand (AVOD) application providing customers with access to TV and Movie content previously purchased on CinemaNow.com.

CNET (United States, Canada)
CNET offers all the product reviews, technology shows and event coverage you love, now on Xbox LIVE.  CNET helps you use technology to enhance and enrich your life. From specially curated content to advice, it’s everything you need to buy and get the most out of tech that’s right for you. Get the best in technology, right where you want it.

Karaoke (All LIVE regions, excluding Japan and United Arab Emirates)
Karaoke provides access to more than 8,000 songs from the latest hits to the oldies but goodies, available on Xbox LIVE. Your avatar will go on stage and sing with a full complement of stage props and back band. Use SmartGlass to play/stop/pause, browse the database and lyrics or to add songs to the playlist. Songs don’t require any download and will playback immediately via streaming for a robust karaoke experience.

Maxim (United States)
Maxim delivers what guys want – beautiful women, cool gear and funny videos – to Xbox 360! From behind-the-scenes of Maxim’s sexiest photo shoots to hilarious comedy originals to high-octane sports, it’s the #1 destination for couch-bound men looking for a good time.

Napster (Germany, United Kingdom)
With your Xbox and Napster Unlimited plus Mobile, you can play millions of songs instantly. Listen to millions of songs in various genres, play as much as you want, enjoy hours of expertly programmed music. Discover new releases, charts and much more.

SkyDrive (All LIVE regions)
SkyDrive is the place to store your files so you can access them from virtually any device. With SkyDrive for Xbox, you can easily view your photos and videos on your TV. You can also play slideshows and view photos and videos shared with you. For more information, visit the Inside SkyDrive blog.

SPORT1 (Austria, Germany)
Enter the world of sports through your Xbox. The SPORT1 app provides Video-Sport-News, Livescores, Livestreams of popular sport events and access to Pay-TV Sports channel SPORT1+.

VEVO (Expanding to Spain, Italy & France)
With over 45,000 videos by 11,000 artists, VEVO is the world’s leading all-premium music video and entertainment platform. Stream live concerts, watch exclusive programming and queue up all your favorite videos. VEVO is available in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom. The VEVO app for Xbox includes high-quality on demand music videos free to the user and allows social interactions between fans, VEVO, and users.


Zattoo (Germany)
The Zattoo app gives you access to free Live TV across 55 channels and an Electronic Program Guide. HiQ accounts feature quick, ad-free channel switches and higher quality streams (including HD), starting at 3.75 EUR per month. Additional premium TV channels, including Sports, Documentary, Kids, Music channels, and International packages are also available.

You should be able to download these apps from the Xbox LIVE marketplace starting today. Give it some time though, we’re rolling out a lot of apps at once and it may take a day or two for all the apps to arrive. We will keep you updated as more of the world’s leading entertainment providers come to Xbox.

We’re also continuing to expand our offering of live events on Xbox LIVE via our Live Events Player app. Join us tonight at 7:30 p.m. EST for a live airing of the Bruno Mars concert hosted by iHeartRadio taking place in New York City. We’ll unveil new interactive features like real-time pop-up information, polling and trivia. (US Only)

1Xbox LIVE Gold subscription and/or additional subscriptions/fees may be required. Kinect functionality available with select Xbox LIVE content and varies by feature and country.

12. GameTrailers (Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States)

:geoff

[maxy]

Karaoke app sounds like an interesting experiment

Karaoke (All LIVE regions, excluding Japan and United Arab Emirates)
Karaoke provides access to more than 8,000 songs from the latest hits to the oldies but goodies, available on Xbox LIVE. Your avatar will go on stage and sing with a full complement of stage props and back band. Use SmartGlass to play/stop/pause, browse the database and lyrics or to add songs to the playlist. Songs don’t require any download and will playback immediately via streaming for a robust karaoke experience.


While free to download, you then pay per amount of singing time you "rent". It's 240 Microsoft Points for two hours, 400 Points for six hours or 800 Points for 24 hours. The service is expected to launch next week.

Twitch is apparently coming too

Actually, the Twitch Xbox App is coming along great (it exists, it works, it is awesome) but there are a few things we need to do ahead of time to make sure it's ready. One things for sure, we want to make sure our video network is 100% ready for what is bound to be a huge influx of traffic to Twitch.

No need to play games on Xbox,I can just watch them there.

[Vertigo]

More apps are always welcome.

[pilonv1]

Twitch on Xbox is good, but can't see myself using it over the iPad

[Momo]

Paywall or none?

Anyway none of these apps will make it my way

[Beezy]

The karaoke app is excluded from Japan of all places?

[tiesto]

The karaoke app is excluded from Japan of all places?

Exactly what I was thinking!

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Surely the Karaoke wont be free. That'd just be too ridiculously awesome.

[Don Flamenco]

LOL DON'T CARE AT ALL

[BobFromPikeCreek]

It says it's up today. Someone go check. I don't have xbox access these days.

[Huff]

Surely the Karaoke wont be free. That'd just be too ridiculously awesome.

i think its a pay per hour app

[Huff]

[G The Resurrected]

I think they are gearing up for another 360 esque device here in 2013, not a next gen console. They still have lots more homes they could get into and if you give people a value they can't deny. They will buy the product even if it's not the leading edge of technology it'll serve their purpose. There's more tv's in more room's than ever before.

So in short, bring on more APPS!

[Joe Molotov]

Surely the Karaoke wont be free. That'd just be too ridiculously awesome.

$3 per hour, $10 for all day.

[Takao]

Paywall or none?

Microsoft not requiring Xbox Live Gold to access apps? 

[Rahxephon91]

Wish PS3 had some of this shit.

[maxy]

I see SkyDrive,CNET,Maxim,Karaoke

US account

Karaoke-powered by Unreal Engine

[Sho Nuff]

Karaoke-powered by Unreal Engine

Wait, are you kidding

[maxy]

No,it said Unreal Engine

made by iNiS


5 free songs,free songs every day
achievements
leaderboards

[Mr. Gundam]

Isn't Joysound (JP) on the PS3 set up in a similar way to XBL Karaoke?

[Sho Nuff]

No,it said Unreal Engine

made by iNiS


5 free songs,free songs every day
achievements
leaderboards

Oh that explains it -- they did the Black-eyed Peas game with UE3.

[Huff]

Wish PS3 had some of this shit.

they have the anime apps. what more could you want?

[Rahxephon91]

Wish PS3 had some of this shit.

they have the anime apps. what more could you want?

Yeah, but even those suck. Neon Ally has terrible quality regardless of the fact that most of the shows are kind of bad. Crunchyroll I don't even think is in HD, so I rather watch it from my computer. Add in the fact that I don't really watch anime anymore and you have a pretty meh set-up.

I really wish HBO Go was on the PS3. Because of my set-up(PS3 in the family room, Xbox in my room), it would be beneficial to the entire household if PS3 had it.

[Takao]

CBC’s Hockey Night

Should've saved this app for 2013.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

there is no NHL season for 2012/2013

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