There was a time when I wanted to make a blog about video games, and this is that blog. I’m not really posting anymore, so there’s no point in this, but I can’t quite bring myself to closing this blog.
Now, granted, the connection between you Xbox Live account and game websites isn’t quite perfect (so far I think only the websites for Microsoft games have been able to access your Live account) but, come on… that’s really pushing the limits of what the PS3’s lack of real online community implies, and abusing the integrated web browser.
As far as I know, even Valve didn’t interface the Orange Box for consoles with Steam, even though they’re the game publisher with most reason and incentive to do it. I wonder how GTA4 and the Rockstar Social Club will work, though; for all I know they’re going to have to do the same, even on the Xbox, if they don’t get direct access to Live accounts. (Although that was the whole point of Microsoft’s good old “Passport” thing, wasn’t it? Logging in with your ID on third-party sites?)