Microsoft announced The Microsoft Game Hub a new gaming hub. It connects its three major social gaming portals, MSN Games, Bing Games and Windows Live Messenger into one. The effect is to blur the line between social and casual gameplay.
Microsoft has made it easier to find and play the games that users enjoy and connect with people who are important to those users. It is driving the experience across multiple platforms so that players can share their experiences with others in their social circles.
The Microsoft Game Hub allows anyone who uses any one of those play sites to access the same games, and see their friends’ status updates, while also able to send each other game challenges.
Another new feature is the rebuilt MSN Games site. Also, there is an update to the games experience on Windows Live Messenger. Not forgetting Bing Games, which has been expanded into other English-speaking markets including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom?
MS Game Hub
The goal behind this move is to make non-hardcore gaming more social. Facebook or Windows Live accounts (or both), can be the basis to allow players can sign into Game Site. Then they can scroll through their friends’ status updates, and perform other social actions, like view game leaderboards, sending casual game challenge requests, save a game as a favorite, or to make it easier to find, and track games, game history, and scores regardless of the platform they’re on.
It used to be that many of these games had a tendency to be very solitary. Instead of posting scores outside of the gaming function, people can now offer challenges to others. People can use the gaming function as a new style social network. People start with something in common, a game, and develop into friendly relationships.
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