Microsoft's upcoming family deal might be just perfect for those you who bunk up with a couple of dudes with Xbox Live Gold accounts--barring that you don't actually have two kids and a loved one who are positively thirsting to be called dirty names over the service.
This November, prior to Kinect's launch, the publisher is set to offer four Xbox Live Gold memberships for $99.99, the price of two Live Gold subscriptions. And while the deal will also be good for those of us living outside the traditional family structure, the deal is being touted as a family subscription plan, which will be reinforced by new child control features coming to the dashboard within the same release window.
== TEASER ==So what won't your little beauties be able to see if you so choose come November? The PR says that you'll be able to strip M-rated games and mature movies from NXE bubbles, in addition to being able to block games based on ESRB ratings, making it mad hard for Johnny to pop in Gears of War at 2AM like he used to. That'll teach him.
Family "activity" reports will also become available on Xbox.com, which, in addition to a new NXE panel, will also allow the primary account-holder-dude to dish out Microsoft Banana Bucks as he or she desires.
Since my cats can't use a controller, I'm still stuck on the Xbox Live deal. I wonder if it'll roll box-style or only as a digital-tied-to-the-Xbox-360 deal? I'm guessing the latter, considering how easy it would be to get a good pool going to save some cash for everyone involved.
