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Xbox Family Settings app sets limits on your kids' game time
Microsoft has released an Xbox Family Settings app in preview to help parents track and limit their kids' gaming.
$99 Xbox Live Gold Family plan available this November
With Kinect, Microsoft is trying to get the whole family playing games. Now it hopes to get the whole family paying for Xbox Live as well, through a discounted "Family" offer. The Xbox Live Gold Family plan, available this November, offers a year of Xbox Live Gold membership to four different family members for a total cost of $99.99, half the normal cost of four individual memberships. It also includes new features, including a "Family Center" menu for managing the family account and content restriction settings, activity reports on Xbox.com, the ability for the "primary account member" to buy and distribute points to other members, and "exclusive family content and discounts." Microsoft is further expanding its family gaming functionality this November with new Family Settings, also due in November. "Family Programming" expands the parental controls to allow the removal of all video and game content of a certain rating level from the Dashboard for younger users, variable by account and password-protected. Title exceptions allow parents to permit certain games rated above the account's maximum level -- for those who can't bear to deny their kids access to Deadly Premonition.
