Posts tagged comcast 
Barely Related: Marvel mixes it up, Comcast service facepalm
One great thing about live streams of The International and LCS championships – you can read awesome articles between the matches. Welcome to Barely Related, a conversational Friday column that presents the non-gaming news stories that we, the Joystiq staff, have been talking about over th...
Reuters: EA nearing deal to stream games to Comcast TVs
EA and mass media company Comcast are close to signing a deal that would make EA-published games available on Comcast's X1 television operating system, Reuters reports. The X1 is an HTML5-based streaming platform for TVs, offering apps, internet, cloud services and DVR....
G4 ending X-Play, Attack of the Show [update]
G4 just announced the final vestiges of its video game content, Attack of the Show! and X-Play, will cease production by the end of 2012. "Both shows will include original episodes through the end of the year, and will look back at their most memorable moments as we lead up to their final episodes,...
HBO Go on Xbox 360 comes to Comcast customers next week
If you're a Comcast customer, the arrival of HBO Go on Xbox 360 was little more than a tease. Starting next week you'll be able to watch HBO content (see: Game of Thrones) on your Xbox 360. You'll need to use your Xfinity login information to gain access once the HBO Go app is available, which Comc...
HBO GO, Xfinity TV apps debut on Xbox 360 today
MLB.TV isn't the only app premiering on Xbox 360 today: HBO GO and Comcast Xfinity TV are now live and ready for your viewing pleasure. Both apps are available at no cost for current HBO GO and/or Xfinity TV subscribers, and they are both Kinect compatible. From here, this looks like perfect timing...
Bloomberg: Xbox Live getting Comcast, Verizon access; expects HBO, Crackle, Bravo, Syfy, Lovefilm, and more
A report earlier this month said that Microsoft's upcoming "Live TV" service -- part of the Xbox 360's upcoming Dashboard refresh -- would feature pay television service from the likes of Comcast and Verizon, who have 22.5 million and 3.8 million TV subscribers, respectively. Now, the far more re...
Verizon not talking about Xbox TV service now, but 'stay tuned'
Bobbi Henson, Verizon's Director of Media Relations for "all consumer FiOS services, including TV, Internet and voice," didn't confirm the rumors that Verizon's FiOS TV service would be coming to Xbox Live, but she did write a long blog post talking about, basically, how awesome such a developmen...
Report: Microsoft in talks with Comcast, Verizon for 'Live TV' service, Samsung for TV integration [update]
In August, Microsoft product manager David Dennis told Joystiq, "We're on track to deliver what we promised at E3 and that's to bring Live TV to Xbox this year." The only catch: What we don't know about Microsoft's upcoming "Live TV" service could fill an olympic-sized swimming pool. Digiday, the...
DirecTV drops G4, says it's 'among the lowest rated networks'
Bad news for the 18 million or so DirecTV subscribers out there: Your ability to watch reruns of Cops anytime you want isn't coming back. The satellite provider dropped the Comcast-owned (and Cops-heavy!) G4 channel last week and today confirmed that it's not interested in reconsidering that decisio...
IGA releases promo vid, claims 36% of gamers seek info from game ads
In-game advertising: sometimes we begrudgingly tolerate it, sometimes we hate it. Like it or not, IGA Worldwide claims that 36 percent of gamers exposed to advertising within games "bought or requested information of a product after seeing an in-game ad." And IGA would know, considering the compan...
