Live Anywhere arrived to a big fanfare when it was first revealed in early 2006, with demos – now clearly revealed as fantasy mock-ups – that showed gamers editing their Forza Motorsport 2 cars on mobiles, texting them over to friends, accessing their Xbox Live GamerTags on their phones and playing their Live Arcade game collections on a suitably powerful handset.

That, we now know, is a dream that didn’t happen. Not even a sniff of a beta. But it’s still on the cards – Microsoft’s Live supremo Jeff Bell recently confirmed that bringing Xbox Live to mobiles is still very much one of Microsoft’s future plans…