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• Microsoft: Xbox Live gains a new user every two seconds

  Xbox Live’s head of marketing, Robin Burrowes, has said Xbox Live’s popularity has grown considerably since its launch in November 2002, and continues to grow exponentially by gaining a new user every two seconds.

• Traditional retail outlets sell lion's share of Xbox Live Gold memberships

  MCV has revealed that bricks and mortar retailers have played a major part in the uptake of Xbox Live Gold memberships, selling 68 percent of the service’s European subscriptions.

• Skype-Live integration not in the "near-future," says Xbox Live EU boss

  Microsoft is looking at how to integrate Skype into Xbox Live, the company has told VG247, but it’s not something you should expect very soon.

• New Xbox 360 dashboard is called Twist Control, has less cluttered interface

  Robin Burrowes, Xbox Live product marketing manager for EMEA, has revealed that the new Xbox 360 dashboard slated for release later this year is called Twist Control.

• Microsoft: More revenue comes from transactions "than the subscription space"

  Xbox Live marketing manager for EMEA Robin Burrowes has reiterated that since last January, the service has grown by five million users due in part to the addition of new regions added to the service last fall.

• Microsoft plans on monthly XBLA Kinect releases

  Microsoft plans to ramp up its XBLA release schedule, and for Kinect to play a significant role.

• Last 12 months have seen record growth for XBL, says Burrowes

  Robin Burrowes, Xbox Live’s EMEA product marketing manager, has said Xbox Live memberships and increased adoption rates have swum alongside each other since the launch of Kinect.

• Microsoft denies Kinect voice control launch omission

  Microsoft has just denied that voice controls have been dropped from Kinect’s launch, despite an MCV story to the contrary.

• Microsoft explains 300's disappearance from Live, licensing for Video Store

  Robin Burrowes, Xbox Live marketing manager for the UK, has explained the disappearance of 300 from the Xbox Live Video Store in the UK, as well as giving us an idea of where it’s off to next. “Indeed it has,” he said when we asked if the movie had actually vanished from the service, just […]

• UK Live movies "skewing towards HD"

  According to this, uptake for high definition movies on the British Xbox Live Video Store is outweighing demand for standard definition content. “We’re just two months into the life cycle from a UK point of view, and from indicators we’re already beginning to receive, firstly we’re performing above expectations, secondly we’re very much skewing towards […]