During Faultline’s summer break last week we missed Microsoft’s acquisition of Beam, an interactive live games streaming startup based in Seattle. Beam’s SDK technology will integrate live streaming features into Microsoft’s Xbox One consoles, allowing users to play alongside their favorite gamers. This has the promise of being a significant move from Microsoft as live streaming goes from strength to strength, but while the practice of watching others play video games is very popular thanks to YouTube, the idea of doing it while playing isn’t a trend that has kicked off – and this will be particularly more difficult to achieve on consoles than PCs. However, Beam has a trick up its sleeve to trump rival game streaming services such…