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Tag Archive | "Xbox Live Experience"
How To Get Crazy Hair Colors For Your Avatar on the New Xbox Experience
With the New Xbox Experience and its Mii like Avatars releasing this week a lot of people are spending countless hours tweaking their Avatars to get them just how they like them. Personally, I wish their were more options for clothing to wear, but Microsoft has said more will be coming soon. It is only [...]
Continue reading...Get Banjo Kazooie (XBLA) Early Plus More
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Can’t wait until Wednesday to get your Banjo fix? Thankfully with the new Xbox Live Experience, you don’t have to! All you have to do is log into your account on Xbox.com and vist this url. Just hit “Download to Xbox 360″ and the next time you log into Xbox Live it should start automatically [...]
Continue reading...XNA Community Games Off to a Huge Start
Saturday, November 22, 2008
On Wednesday this week, November 19th, XNA Community Games launched on the Xbox 360 with the new dashboard updated - The New Xbox Experience. Just three days after launch there are already 45 games available in Xbox Live’s XNA Community Games (ranging in price from $2.50 to $10), and that number continues to grow daily. Sure, [...]
Continue reading...Why Halo 3’s Loads Slower With The New Xbox Experience
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Microsoft’s newest update to the Xbox 360, the New Xbox Experience, released today. As we reported last week one of the cool new features is that games can be saved to the hard drive. For most games this allows them to load faster and in some cases helps alleviate graphical glitches like “pop in.” The exception [...]
Continue reading...PSN Cracks 14 Million Active User Mark - Michael Pachter Eats Feet
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
In the most recent Bonus Round episodes (Online Services - Part 1, Part 2) analyst Michael Pachter, and all around good-dresser, proported that PSN was a complete Sony-fail with, what he guessed, was less than 1 million active users; part of his reasoning for stating this was that Sony never announced numbers for the service [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Experience Will Drive 1100% Marked-Up Xbox HDD Sales
Saturday, November 1, 2008
With the giant Fall update of the Xbox Live Dashboard (nicknamed ‘Xbox Live Experience‘ at this point) looming, some folks with early access are starting to look at the new features coming in that update. To recap the hotness that is the “Xbox Live Experience” update, it’s more or less every major feature you’ve ever wanted [...]
Continue reading...How to Get the New Xbox Experience Early
Friday, October 24, 2008
For those of you who have not heard the “New Xbox Experience” is the upcoming dashboard update for the Xbox 360. It is scheduled for release on November 19th and includes a large number of changes including: Netflix Streaming XNA Community Games Avatars Xbox Live Marketplace on the Web Updated Games Marketplace Plus a complete redesign of the Dashboard Layout For those [...]
Continue reading...TGS: Xbox Live Experience (Fall Update) Walkthrough Video
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Kotaku has the scoop on the Xbox Live Experience (Fall Update) with a full walkthrough video, creating an avatar, dressing it, etc. Overall it sounds/looks very much like something Nintendo would make. I guess that’s a compliment? Who knows. As mentioned before navigation through the Xbox Live environment is very Apple-esque with a Xbox Live Dashboard feel [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Experience, Fall Dashboard Update Sneak Peek
Sunday, October 5, 2008
A little preview of the Before and After of the Fall Xbox Live Dashboard Update (or Xbox Live Experience) from Major Nelson’s Blog. Overall it looks like Microsoft moved away from the Windows/Vista-ey feel of Dashboard, with sliding-but-mostly-static navigation to a more Apple-esque flipping or spacial-navigation approach. Looks pretty slick to me. Before After
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
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