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Article: Xbox Live to offer video chatting Service also to debut feature that lets players 'tickle' others
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 12, 2004
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LOS ANGELES -- Users of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox Live online gaming
network can already talk to each other remotely while logged in --
but soon they'll be able to see their fellow players' faces and
"tickle" each other, too.
The announcement came Tuesday at the start of the Electronic
Entertainment Expo -- known by the nickname E3 -- which annually
draws thousands of game developers to Los Angeles from around the
world to showcase the latest in video game technology.
Other announcements included a new partnership with Electronic
Arts Inc., which previously kept its hit sports games off the Xbox
Live service, and a nostalgia service that would provide gamers with
1980s arcade titles.
Xbox's ...