Xbox Live (trademarked as Xbox LIVE) is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It is
currently the only online gaming service on consoles that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002. An
updated version of the service became available for the Xbox 360 console at that system's launch in 2005. It was announced on June 10, 2011 that the service is going
to be fully integrated into Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8.