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New Features Incoming for the Xbox 360, Says Microsoft Man

The Xbox 360 has seen a major increase in popularity these past few months, largely due to the fact that Microsoft has employed a price cut and launched a lot of new features for its console, with the most important one being the New Xbox Experience, a full revamp of the old user interface. But it now seems that mor...

6 February 2009
03:12 GMT

Microsoft Releases Dashboard Update, Gives Sound Back to Consoles

Microsoft has been experiencing a very good period in the last few months, in terms of gaming, as its Xbox 360 console has been selling quite a lot, due to its price cut and the wide variety of bundles that were introduced ahead of last year's holiday season.But one of the most important and expected additions t...

3 February 2009
13:11 GMT

Microsoft Says New Xbox Experience Has Reinvented the 360

The Xbox 360 is a console that, during the last months, has really gained a massive amount of popularity. This is largely due to the fact that it has seen a lot of exclusive games being launched for it, like Gears of War 2 or Fable II, but most of all thanks to the price cut it has received before fall, which made it...

19 January 2009
11:01 GMT

Get Ready for a Big Xbox Live Update Next Christmas

The Xbox 360 is a console that has been experiencing some very strong momentum in terms of sales and popularity, especially after Microsoft decided to cut the price of the versions currently available for the console and include it in quite a lot of bundles with eagerly anticipated games before the holiday season. Th...

14 January 2009
03:30 GMT

Braid Dashboard Premium Theme Launched, Developer Is Sorry It Isn't Free

Last year was a truly great one for independently-made games, as we've seen a lot of very interesting titles emerge. Among those, only two really shined and offered countless hours of fun to gamers around the world – World of Goo and the hit arcade platformer Braid. Braid was launched exclusively to the X...

13 January 2009
02:17 GMT

Sony Admits Home Launch Problems

There's a pretty tough battle being waged on the console market, largely because the recession has made people more restrictive with the money they spend. That's why the three large manufacturers, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, have all made different efforts in order to attract customers. While Microsoft h...

12 December 2008
09:01 GMT

Xbox Live Is More Popular After the Launch of NXE

Microsoft is ready to show off the success of the New Xbox Experience and has offered, less than one month since launch, some pretty detailed statistics regarding how many people use Xbox Live and its various services.At the moment, there are more than 14 million Xbox Live accounts active in the world, although Micro...

12 December 2008
06:29 GMT

Home Will Be Released This Year, Says Sony

There's a pretty tough war waged on the console market, as the top three producers, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, are fighting for every customer. This battle gets even more intensive during the holiday season, when people are more than willing to pay a considerable amount of money for the products they want. T...

10 December 2008
03:10 GMT

Former Sony Executive Talks About Home and NXE

Sony and Microsoft are two companies engaged in a bitter battle for domination of hardcore gamers, who prefer only the most high-end technology and services. Although we have seen a lot of statements made by the two rivals and meant to mock each other, in what concerns users, this war brought them a lot of benefits, ...

9 December 2008
03:52 GMT

The New Xbox Experience Silences Consoles

The New Xbox Experience, or NXE, has really been one of the most hyped up updates to the Xbox 360 console by Microsoft. It promised to eliminate the old blade user interface and replace it with something that would be more user friendly and help gamers personalize their own Xbox experience.Launched in the middle of N...

3 December 2008
02:53 GMT

Microsoft Says This Generation Will Be the Longest

There's a very tough war going on starring the top console manufacturers, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, the main weapons being statements, offers, and mocking the features of rival products. While fighting, the three have often neglected focusing on a pretty important aspect of consoles - their life span.While N...

28 November 2008
09:01 GMT

Nintendo Is Preparing to Go Social

Sony is preparing to launch Home, the social space that will bring together all players that use the PlayStation 3 and want to connect with other people. Microsoft is releasing the New Xbox Experience which is set to offer more social options with Avatars and Live Parties. Meanwhile, Nintendo, although selling a ton...

19 November 2008
18:21 GMT

Microsoft Hypes Up the New Xbox Experience

The Xbox 360 is a very popular console, largely due to the fact that it was the first next-gen piece of hardware to hit the game market, but also because it is a platform very easy to develop games for, as quite a lot of videogame creators said. And its popularity is further increasing around this period, as Microsof...

19 November 2008
03:32 GMT

Microsoft Launches Xbox 360 Sweepstakes

The New Xbox Experience comes on November 19 and Microsoft is eager to advertise it by launching a promotion aimed at those who get stuff from the Xbox Live Marketplace. The big prize is 500,000 Microsoft Points, which a lucky gamer will be able to use to get even more stuff from Microsoft. There will also be five fi...

18 November 2008
04:14 GMT

Xbox 360 Is Recession-Proof

Mindy Mount, the vice president and Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, has argued, at the recent BMO Capital Markets Interactive Entertainment Conference, that the Xbox 360 gaming console is a recession-proof product that might even benefit from the economic downturn that ...

17 November 2008
20:41 GMT

Sony Releases Firmware 2.52 for PlayStation 3

Sony is continuing the constant stream of firmware updates for the PlayStation 3 gaming console by releasing version 2.52. It's a minor update, as the version number suggests, but still mandatory. As soon as you power up your device, you need to go into the System Update part of the PS3 setting menu in order to ...

5 November 2008
05:45 GMT

Do Not Use the Leaked New Xbox Experience

On the one hand, those who love the concept of gaming consoles often say that the PC is a dying platform because piracy, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted material, is far too easy. On the other hand, more and more videogames which are heading to consoles are available pirated before they reach the Xbox 360 or...

3 November 2008
08:06 GMT

Microsoft's New Xbox Experience Storage Solutions Are Launched

We reported yesterday that an official statement came from Microsoft regarding the storage specifications needed by their new dashboard update, commonly referred to as the New Xbox Experience. The update and all of its features will require the Xbox 360 to have at least 128 MB of storage empty in order to function pr...

14 October 2008
04:11 GMT

Microsoft Cuts Movie Sharing from New Xbox Experience

In regards to the Xbox 360, the New Xbox Experience, NXE, is on everybody's lips. From the new features available to the storage issue that it will feature, the update is the center of attention. It will be launched on November 19 and until then, you can be sure that Microsoft is going to heavily promote it. We...

14 October 2008
03:07 GMT

Microsoft May Drop the Spring/Fall Updates for the Xbox 360

Microsoft has definitely had a busy Tokyo Game Show. With announcements left and right about Tekken 6 or about the New Xbox Experience, the company is getting the hype going around about their updates and products. During this convention, John Schappert, corporate vice president of Microsoft, spoke about the Xbox 36...

13 October 2008
19:01 GMT

Microsoft Reconsiders the Delisting of Arcade Games

Before the New Xbox Experience, rumors were going around saying that Microsoft was preparing to delist and effectively delete games from their Xbox Live Arcade service. This special section of the Live Marketplace offers small games aimed at casual gamers who want to unwind and aren't keen on playing some blockb...

13 October 2008
03:46 GMT

Microsoft Will Offer Storage Solutions for the New Xbox Experience

The New Xbox Experience, or NXE, is one of the biggest updates to Microsoft's console, the Xbox 360. Set to replace the old blade-style dashboard, which has been standard since the launch of the next-gen console, this update will offer you a much more user-friendly experience and, from the Xbox Marketplace to na...

13 October 2008
02:51 GMT

Try the New Xbox Experience on Your Browser

Microsoft is really stressing the importance of its fall update to the Xbox 360, especially the long awaited New Xbox Experience. Essentially a revamp of the old blade system which is currently  employed in the Xbox 360 navigation menu, this promises to bring a much more user friendly experience and to take pers...

30 September 2008
20:01 GMT


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