Today the Xbox 360 gets yet another media app. Crackle joins the likes of Sky Go, Netflix and Lovefilm in bring movie and TV streaming to Microsoft’s console – but unlike those, it offers content that’s totally free. Yeah, free.
In all honesty Crackle’s selection of TV and films isn’t particularly wow-worthy. Aside from teenage boy trouser-botherer Wild Things, Guy Ritchie’s ill-advised flirtation with art house cinema Revolver, Kirsten Dunst comedy Dick and camp video game adaptation Street Fighter, there’s not much we’ve heard of in the film section – though if you don’t like the sound of free Van Damme on tap, well, good day to you. TV highlights on the service meanwhile include The Tick and Dilbert.
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Still, it’s free (to Xbox Live Gold subscribers, at least), so we can’t really complain too much – and movies are uncut and uncensored, which is nice. The Crackle app is a 75MB download, and available in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia right…now.
