Discourse Chronicle

A new feature called Xbox Live Party will let parties of up to seven people chat and share pictures over a television screen while simultaneously playing games. The Personality Plus tool will let users create customized avatars that will represent them throughout the Xbox world. –Paul McDougall

[I am interested in seeing how this new feature changes a gaming experience because of its multimodal possibilities, especially since players may already communicate using voice with a headset while playing with a controller, which demonstrates multitasking if nothing else. BK]

category: Gaming, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology