Family Guy in Xbox Live

A news for Xbox user. From now, you can download the animated series Family Guy from Xbox Live service. Twentieth Century Fox has struck a deal with Microsoft to make the first two seasons of the animated series Family Guy available for downloads on the Xbox Live service.

Jamie McCabe, executive vice president at 20^th Century Fox said Family Guy is their first project and they hope to have other content beside Family Guy. Family Guy represents the first Fox product to make it onto Xbox, which lacks an overall deal with the News Corp.-owned studio. In the battle of the electronic sell-through outlets, score one for Xbox over main rival iTunes, which hasn’t yet landed rights to Family.

The owners of Xbox 360 can purchase each of the episodes from the first two seasons as well as the straight-to-DVD film Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story for 160 Microsoft points, or about $2, which is comparable with the pricing of TV episodes on iTunes and other VOD platforms.

In addition to being its initial foray into Xbox, this also is first time the Seth MacFarlane-created series about the irreverent Griffin clan has been available for downloads on any platform, McCabe said.

“It’s a great interface, and they’re definitely doing all they can to support this content,” McCabe said.

Info: cnet.com