Microsoft's Xbox One X (pictured).
-
Casey Rodgers / AP / SIPA
Xbox Live, Microsoft's online gaming service since 2002, is changing its name.
It will become Xbox Network, reports an article from
The Verge
relayed by
01Net on
Tuesday.
By renaming it like this, the American firm wants to avoid confusion with its Xbox Live Gold subscription service.
Xbox network 🤔 https://t.co/E49QQzQFad pic.twitter.com/OQS1cRsrZ2
- Tom Warren (@tomwarren) March 21, 2021
These are beta testers who saw the new name on the dashboard of their game console.
As early as August, the change of the name of the Xbox online service was notified in an update to the Microsoft Services Agreement.
In some parts of the document, the term Xbox Live had been replaced by Xbox online service, but not yet by Xbox Network.
Asked by
The Verge
, Microsoft confirmed that Xbox Network is now the new name for the online service dedicated to consoles.
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