Xbox Live updates announced at Gamescom

The following four features are newly announced updates to Xbox Live on your Windows Phone that will be released with the launch of Windows Phone 7 Mango later this year.

1 – Download add-on game content. New updates will allow you to download game add-on content for your mobile games through Xbox LIVE to extend the gaming experience.

2 – Play with friends. From one Windows Phone to another, play games with friends, using the Fast Async multiplayer feature in select titles.

3 – Show off achievements. Like earning an achievement, but wearable! Tout your mad skills on the sleeve of your Avatar by unlocking Avatar Awardables in select titles.

4 – Control access. Manage and access mature rated content with Parental Controls, which are easily accessible on Xbox.com, Xbox LIVE Zune PC Software and Zune.net.

New Xbox Live Windows Phone games coming out later this year:
· “Toy Soldiers Boot Camp” (Microsoft Studios)
· “Chickens Can’t Fly” (Microsoft Studios)
· “Twist Text 2” (GameHouse)
· “Beards & Beaks: Cave Area” (Microsoft Studios)
· “Kinectimals” (Frontier Developments, Microsoft Studios)
· “MUSH” (Microsoft Studios)
· “Farm Frenzy 2” (Microsoft Studios)
· “Fight Game Rivals” (Microsoft Studios)
· “Orbital” (Microsoft Studios)
· “Burn the Rope” (Big Blue Bubble)
· “COLLAPSE!” (GameHouse)
· “Gravity Guy” (Miniclip SA)
· “Bug Village” (Glu Games)
· “IonBallEX” (Ironsun Studios Limited)

Preview of Dynamite Entertainment’s 8/17 Releases

Dynamite Entertainment has provided us with a special look at two of their releases coming to comic shops this Wednesday!

THE BOYS: BUTCHER, BAKER, CANDLESTICK MAKER #2 (of 6)
32 pages FC • $3.99 • Mature
Written by GARTH ENNIS
Art and cover by DARICK ROBERTSON
1982: on the desolate Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, young Royal Marine Billy Butcher finds his calling. But no one can stay at war forever, and trouble comes when he indulges his love of conflict in civilian life. Butcher’s life seems locked on a grim course- but help may be at hand from a rather unexpected source…

DEAN KOONTZ’S NEVERMORE #4 (OF 6)
32 pages FC • $3.99 • Teen +
Written by DEAN KOONTZ, KEITH CHAMPAGNE
Art by LENO CARVALHO
Cover by TYLER WALPOLE
In the wake of last issue’s disastrous turn, Bobby Godric takes it upon himself to understand the alien menace known as The Hydra…by capturing one. Can Bobby set aside his grief for Nora, or has he lost before his solo mission has even begun?