"Family Timer" To Be Included In New Update

The latest update to the Xbox 360′s dashboard, currently scheduled for December, is to include a family timer – an option that limits your gaming time to a preset amount. Ideal for parents worried about how much time their offspring is spending shouting homophobic, racist slurs over their headset during a heated Halo 3 session, but also handy for wives widowed by this years FIFA soccer and stopping people dropping dead during marathon gaming binges.

A password protected setting, so any scamp trying to circumnavigate their limited gaming will need to know what their mother’s first pet was called, it can be set to limit the length and even time of day the console can be used during. A few warnings will flash showing how much time they have remaining before the console will simply shut itself down. A smart move this may be, especially when aiming to please the various parent groups dotted around America, but one gets the feeling that running out of time RIGHT at that crucial Mass Effect plot moment will cause more than one argument this Christmas…

Currently, no other real details of the new dashboard update are available.