Major Nelson has posted some images of how the new dashboard works with currently purchased themes. Basically the all new grey dashboard is skinned with a slightly less grey look as your current theme image is displayed in a 3d style behind the new menu. Click the image to the right for a better look.
Microsoft has put out a press release which amongst other things states that the new Primetime service coming to Xbox 360 in Autumn will only be available in four countries at launch. The release states “Xbox LIVE Primetime is available in North America, France, Germany and the U.K.”.
EDIT: Oops, we got a bit slack with [...]
Joystiq has posted a good bullet point article detailing some finer points on how the new Xbox 360 dashboard and experience features are going to work. Here’s some of the highlights:
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Games can reward you with items for your Avatar
They’re not ready to discuss the availability of lyrics, beat charts, etc. for Lips when using your [...]
One of the more interesting parts of the Microsoft press conference was the announcement of the quiz show channel coming to Xbox 360. Players avatars will be able to take part in quiz show games with real prizes on offer. The trailer below gives a sneak peak at 1 vs 100:
Gamerscore blog is running a letter from Marc Whitten(some Xbox guy) detailing some of the new features that will be found in the new Xbox 360 dashboard coming this Autumn. The new features include:
Play from hard drive. Copy your games from the game disc and play directly from the hard drive. Not only will the [...]
The demo for Too Human is now available for download over Xbox Live. This is expected to be the first of many demos making there way onto the service over the next few days as Microsoft kicks off it’s “bringing it home” coverage of E3 2008 on Xbox Live.
Microsoft have confirmed the 20gb Xbox 360 package is to be replaced with a 60gb packfor the same asking price of the current 20gb model. The news currently only applies to the USA as no European announcement has been made. Presumably we can expect to see the same occur in Europe at some point although [...]
Like us you may be wondering where all the reviews are for Sega’s latest Olympics game Beijing 2008. Considering the game came out on the 27Th of June and so far not one major online site has reviewed it, initial perceptions due to this are that the game is sub par and being sent out [...]
Race Driver: Grid is Codemasters latest installment in the Race Driver series of games which began with TOCA touring car championship back in 1997 on the PC and original PlayStation.
The game sees you play as yourself carrying out various racing jobs in order to build up enough money to buy your own car and so [...]
Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness” is due to be released on Xbox Live arcade at the price of 1600 (£13.71) points on May 23rd. Previously the highest priced game’s on the service had been Bankshot Billiards 2 and Lumines at 1200 (£10.24) points each. While Penny arcade has a big following in the [...]
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