The Ultimate Fighting Championship was already known to be heading to Xbox Live after the announcement of their forthcoming partnership with Microsoft. Â This new feature on the service will start on December 1st, and will offer pay per view content, on-demand.
The UFC broadcasts on the Xbox 360 will feature many of the community features that other similar services offer.  Partying up with friends, predicting winners, and utilizing the Kinect to navigate the user interface will all be available at launch.  As well as access to their first pay per view offering, which will be UFC 140, where Jon Jones will take on Lyoto Machida.
The fight will be available in 720p streaming video, and can be accessed via credit card, no Microsoft Points required.
Published: Oct 9, 2011 04:30 pm