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Microsoft to release new Xbox Companion WP7 app tomorrow

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Microsoft's announced it'll release an Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone 7 handsets tomorrow alongside the launch of the Next Xbox Dashboard.

The app will contain Bing, enabling you to search for content that's available on XBLMP.

Through that, you'll get to "launch a movie, TV show, game or app on the connected console as well as play, pause, fw, rw the playing video or music on the connected Xbox, initiate media purchase and navigate your Xbox console."

It'll also come with the abilities to check Friend activity, Achievements, see what you played recently and more.

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Johnny Cullen

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Johnny has experience at a wide range of games media outlets, having written for Eurogamer, Play Magazine, PC Gamer, GameDaily, and more. He worked at VG247 pumping out news at an astonishing rate for several years. More recently, he founded the games website PlayDiaries.
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