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Your really possess darling outlandish kitten will shortly be means to live both on your Windows Phone and your Xbox 360.

It seems a ties that bind Windows Phones and Xbox 360 diversion machines together are flourishing tighter by a week.

At this week's Nokia World expo in England, Microsoft showed off some of a new ways that Windows Phones will work with Xbox 360 diversion machines in a nearby future. And there's really some intriguing things entrance down a line.

We initial listened about stirring WP7 Xbox Companion App progressing this month. But now, Microsoft's Windows Phone blog is giving us a demeanour during how a app will spin your phone into a media controller for your Xbox 360. (Msnbc.com is a corner try of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

Microsoft blogger Ben Rudolph demonstrated how a app lets you use Bing to find, say, a movie, learn some-more about it, and afterwards start adult a film on your TV around a Xbox 360. The app lets we use a phone many like we would a remote controller — pausing, fast-forwarding, etc. Take a look:

But as a gamer, what I've been many meddlesome in is how Windows Phones can be used with Xbox 360s to impact and raise gameplay.

Windows Phones have worked in and with the Xbox Live online service since a phones initial launched. Though a cross-over facilities started off sincerely singular — we could build adult your Xbox Live gamer measure and supplement to your achievements list by personification certain games on your phone for instance — they have been growing.

We've already seen how personification WP7 games "Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst," "Full House Poker" and "Fable Coin Golf" can have an impact on the associated Xbox 360 games you're playing.

But ever given we were treated to this tech demo display gamers regulating a Windows Phone to control an Xbox 360 Kinect game, we've famous bigger things contingency be in a works.

It seems that hulk kittens are during slightest one of a bigger things in a works. Rudolph posted a following video display how a "Kinectimals" diversion app for Windows Phones (due to launch subsequent week) will work in and with a "Kinectimals" diversion for a Xbox 360.

As we can see, you'll be means to pass a practical lion, tiger or bear that you're lifting and training in the Windows Phone chronicle of a diversion over to your Xbox chronicle of a diversion and behind again regulating a QR code, a Kinect camera and a new Kinectivity function:

While raising virtual animals on your phone may not be adult your (grown-up) alley, it's easy to see how this cross-device gaming could be put to good use in other titles.

I'm only guessing here, but I wouldn't be astounded if we saw Windows Phones get in on some "Halo 4" action.

For some-more diversion news, check out:

• Old-school 'Halo' gets new-school Kinect controls
• 'Fable Coin Golf' is a Windows Phone 7 win
• Halo Reclaimer Trilogy will go low with Master Chief, Cortana
• Aye matey, pirates have plundered 'Modern Warfare 3'

Winda Benedetti writes about games for msnbc.com. You can follow her tweets about games and other things here on Twitter or join her in a tide here on Google+.  And be certain to check out a In-Game Facebook page here.

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