Microsoft today did not quite announce a new update to the features of its Xbox Live online gaming service. Rather, it carefully tiptoed around properly announcing something it calls "Tsunami," a suite of development tools it soon plans to roll out that will enable new community and content sharing features for Xbox Live gamers, which reportedly number some 750,000 as of the end of last year. "Tsunami," Microsoft says, encompasses (but is not necessarily limited to) the following new Live features, which will gradually roll out over the coming year:
News source: 1Up
- Team Dynamics: A structured clan system, this seems to be, where players can form a team with a distinct identity, send messages within that team, keep statistics for that team, and challenge other teams to matches.
- Competitions: Tsunami will let developers more easily implement different competitions into games, which can then be administered by either users or publishers.
News source: 1Up
- SharpMT 2.2offers:
- Save drafts locally - save entries that you're working on to your local hard drive
- One button posting - send any of your drafts to the server with one button click
- Edit multiple drafts simultaneously - a tabbed interface allows multiple drafts to be open at the same time
- Multiple categories per post - select more than one category for each draft published to the server
- Standard tag support - add bold, italics, underline, and URL tags via tool bar, menu, or keyboard
- Shell checking support - built in spell checking module underlines misspelled words in red
- Download existing posts - download the title and entry of existing blog enties from your server and store it on your hard drive for linking and editing
- Edit server-based posts - download server-based entries, edit them, and then upload the changes to the server
- Sync-able links list - advanced download techniques will always minimize data request for new published posts
- Sync-able categories list - pull an updated category list from your server at anytime
- Sync-able text filters list - apply existing server based text filters for drafts
- MT specific creation - use MT's extended fields, such as publishing status, categories, and excerpts
- Integrated Preview - built in Previewing allows you to view your drafts based on an HTML template
- Upload Images - upload any of your local images to anywhere within your blog
- RSS Aggregator integration - start new Blog entries from the most popular RSS Aggregator applications
- MP3 Player integration - add "now playing" information into Drafts with WMP9's blogging plug-in
- Favorites integration - list of Favorites from IE available as insertable links
- Customizable tag support - change the tags generated for bold, underline, italics and ten custom tags
- Customizable toolbar images - change the look of SharpMT by changing two images
- Shell integration - double-clicking a draft file will open it in a SharpMT window
- Modern Looking UI - using the minimizing, docking and floating window suppose of .NET for a modern interface
- Help system - a standard Windows based help system with comprehensive and detailed documentation
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