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  • Is Xbox Live about to make a big push towards iOS and Android integration?
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    Is Xbox Live about to make a big push towards iOS and Android integration?

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    Until Sauron devises the One Service to connect all mobile games, we've had to make do with a patchwork quilt of systems to serve up achievements, leaderboards, friend notifications and the like. There's GameCenter for iOS, Google Play Games for Android, and products like OpenKit attempting to cover all the bases.But a familiar face with plenty of resources at its disposal might be entering the fray. Sources have told The Verge that Microsoft is looking to expand Xbox Live to offer mobile games some of the same features the service has provided to console games, even going so far as to create job posts looking for developers to aid in the initiative. 
  • Free-to-play headed to Xbox 360 with Happy Wars
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    Free-to-play headed to Xbox 360 with Happy Wars

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    In the world of video games, free-to-play has fast emerged as a juggernaut. The majority of the top twenty grossing iOS titles, for example, don't have any price of admission to start. Over 70% of revenue in mobile comes from in-app payments within zero dollar games. It's quickly becoming the train you either get on, or from which you get out of the way.  Microsoft, it seems, is hopping aboard.
  • Zynga games may be heading to Xbox Live
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    Zynga games may be heading to Xbox Live

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    Given their recent display of copious spending, it's no surprise that social games empire Zynga will stop at nothing in order to increase their company's already enormous reach. Given their history of spending sprees and expansion over the past few years, it's almost surprising that it's taken them until now to begin to hint at expanding to the home console market.