What are Xbox Live Now, Xbox Live Web, Live Alerts, and XSN Sports?
(Last updated: 04/21/2004) Back to top Xbox Live Now XBL Now is a FREE upgrade to the Xbox Live dashboard software (what you see when you choose Xbox Live from the Xbox dashboard) that will allow you to many cool things: • See if your friends are online and what they are playing • Chat with friends (outside of any game) • Check your game statistics • Issue challenges (I want to challenge XboxBoy to a 9PM MechAssault game, etc.) • See scheduled games (leagues or personal challenges) • Find out if DLC is available for games you own • …??? XBL Now is not a web browser for the Xbox. It is just an update to the XBL software on your Xbox (call it XBL 2.0 if you want). It is, however, integrated with .NET and Passport, which means you can ALSO do much of this stuff on the web. See below. Xbox Live Web This is the web side of Xbox Live Now, more or less. You should be able to do all of the things listed above on this web page, excepting of course voice chat. Note that this also is not a web-
