| | What was that Xbox Live Update last night? | 
Nick de Bruyne - February 4th, 2009 | If you switched on your Xbox 360 yesterday, you would have had to download an update to the Xbox 360 dashboard. The update weighed in at around 20MB's and came without any major announcement over Xbox Live, which left quite a few people bewildered as to what ... [»] | 
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| Finally! View NXE themes before you fork out the MS dough | 
Nick de Bruyne - January 29th, 2009 | It's about time that a site like this popped up.
Ever since the NXE dashboard update came out for the Xbox 360, none of us have been able to properly preview any of the new premium themes before forking out 250 MS points to download them.
Well, now it's as easy as visiting www.nxethemes.com and browsing around for a theme that you want to check ... [»] | 
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| It’s Dress Up Time Again! New Euro Football Avatar Clothing | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 28th, 2009 | A series of European football themed shirts have been added to the to NXE avatar editor today - 18 to be precise. Before you Liverpool and Man U fans get excited and set your avatars to fighting mode, be prepared to be disappointed – These are country specific. Worse is they’re not digital recreations of national team’s kit – they’re just lame T-shirts with little flags on them.The “European National Football Teams" collection is available now – for free – through the avatar editor. The 18 lucky European countries to get their own useless shirts are :Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland. France, Germany,Ireland, Italy, Netherlands. Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland and WalesAny of you care?Source : Kotaku | 
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| Rumour : 360 to get Resident Evil 5 Bundle | 
Geoffrey Tim - January 26th, 2009 | Rumours are doing the rounds that Microsoft will be releasing a “Resident Evil†themed Xbox 360. The info comes via Ars Technica’s notably reliable insider mole. Ben Kuchera’s ninja spy claims the bundle bundle will consist of a red Xbox 360 and matching red controller, a copy of Resident Evil 5 (naturally), an exclusive RE5 premium NXE theme, and a voucher to download Super Street Fighter II HD Remix for free.Missing are details of included hard drive size or pricing information. This should be an instant purchase for those of you who were waiting for RE5 before dipping in to the HD waters or those of you who feel you just don’t have enough bright red appliances.Here’s hoping that the console doesn’t ship with a matching set of red lights. (What? It had to be ... [»] |
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| Microsoft declares 2008 an excellent year for XBLA | 
Karl Thomson - December 23rd, 2008 | Â And they are right. Very very right, in fact. Lets go through the stats posted at the Gamerscore Blog: 1.25 BILLION Gamerscore points, and almost 100 Million achievements unlocked. Those figures are insane, but rightly so. This year has been amazing for XBLA with massive releases like Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Braid and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2.According to Microsoft, most of the success can ... [»] | 
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| New Avatar Clothing Unveiled | 
Gavin Mannion - December 17th, 2008 | Major Nelson has announced that there are some new items of clothing for your Avatars to get all dressed up for Christmas.The ladies out there will be pleased to hear that they have added in some new shoes as I hear that there is a problem with the current selection, though to be honest I don't even remember putting shoes on my guy.The formal wear collection has now been announced and consists of the followingFor the gentlemen we have Blue Tuxedo (save that one for prom season)
Black Tuxedo
Shirt with Cummerbund
Black Trilby
Bowler HatFor the ladies ... [»] | 
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| Microsoft posts first NXE stats – It’s working well for them | 
Gavin Mannion - December 11th, 2008 | Microsoft has just posted some of the first statistics since the NXE was released and it appears that the NXE has been a very good move, financially at least.The number of new friends added has risen by 33% which is being put down to the new party system, while this has no immediate benefit it will obviously entice people to keep their memberships ... [»] |
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| Xtival ’08 Weekend – Free Xbox Live for All | 
Nick de Bruyne - November 27th, 2008 | Earlier this week I was browsing through the NXE and happened to see an interesting little bit of news about this upcoming weekend (28 - 30 November).This weekend coming is going to have a Live promotion called "Xtival '08" running that will allow all Xbox Live Silver Members to play online. Not only that but it also looks as if ... [»] |
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| Sony Columbia Pictures Movies Available Again on NXE | 
Gareth Seiler - November 26th, 2008 | Oh well I guess you can't be right all the time. It seems that Microsoft and Netflix have managed to sort out the licensing issues surrounding the Sony Columbia Pictures movies not being available for streaming on the NXE. So unfortunately this ones a bust as both 1up and Evil avatar are reporting all movies are back up and working ... [»] |
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| Super Mario on the Xbox 360 | 
Nick de Bruyne - November 26th, 2008 | Well, sort of.With the new Avatar system being integrated into the new Xbox 360 dashboard, some people have been hard at work (read: bored) creating avatar versions of some of their favorite characters and ... [»] |
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| Not all 360 games can be installed – Who cares? | 
Gavin Mannion - November 25th, 2008 | Now that Microsoft has followed Sony's ludicrous decision to allow installs the entire world is doomed...Okay so maybe it's not that serious but I swear people are going to be complaining about this in a year or two when they are running out of space, consoles should never ever have installs.Rant over, now onto the good news. There are a few games out ... [»] |
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