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Xbox Live Team Working On Their 360 Dash Speed
According to Major Nelson's latest podcast, the Xbox Live Team is working towards making a harder, better, faster, and indeed stronger Xbox Live Dashboard for the next update later this year. More »Xbox 360 Avatars Getting New Outfits, Props, Marketplace
Microsoft announced today that the Xbox 360 Avatars will be getting an upgrade, with new items, known as Awards and Props, coming soon to add further personalization to your New Xbox Experience character. More »Xbox 360 Gets Crackdown Theme
If your Xbox 360 is looking a little drab - and you're not adverse to spending money on tarting it up - then hey, this new Crackdown theme might be just the thing you're into. More »Xbox 360 Avatars Now Short Shorts Ready
The virtual wardrobes of the Xbox 360's Avatars have expanded, offering exciting new options to outfit your virtual self, including booty shorts and sporty vests for the girls and terrible denim options for the guys. More »Xbox Avatar Clothing — Serious Business
Your "New Xbox Experience" avatar has just gotten some grown up clothes, eight new pieces of formal and business casual articles that will be a hit at your next Xbox Live con call. More »Finally, Pirate Costumes Come To Xbox Avatars
For all their promise, the 360's avatars look a little...drab. This isn't 1998, Microsoft, nor the set of Frasier. Thankfully, Capcom are on the case, and with Crecente in mind will be releasing pirate costumes. More »The New Xbox Experience Will Soon Be Mandatory
Most people are more than happy with the improvements the New Xbox Experience brought to the Xbox 360's user interface. Those unhappy, well, tough: it's about to become compulsory. More »NXE Avatars Get Lost And Damned
Microsoft is going all out in its promotion of The Lost and Damned coming to the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV. And by "all out," we mean new Avatar clothing options. More »360 Avatars Can Celebrate Valentines Day Too, You Know
Valentines Day is coming up, marketing teams need ways to somehow tie gaming into that most non-gaming of days...what to do? Romantic costumes are a good place to start, and Microsoft just signed up. More »Rare Teasing User-Generated Avatars For The 360
The 360's avatars are, all copy-cat jokes aside, surprisingly endearing. Only problem is, some of the wardrobe and body options are a little...limited. That's something user-generated content could address. So, uh, will it? More »360 Avatars: Coming To A Game/Marketing Campaign Near You
As it stands, we're getting new 360 avatars every, what, week or two? But soon, say Rare, we'll be getting them with specific games, "just like achievements". More »Microsoft Finally Fixes NXE HDMI SNAFU
The Xbox 360's "New Xbox Experience" wasn't filled with the joyful noise of Avatar belches for some owners of the console. Some found their HDMI-ready systems without sound, which Microsoft is now, finally, addressing. More »This Is The New Xbox Experience That Could Have Been
Design firm Grid/plane worked with Microsoft on early design ideas for the New Xbox Experience. While the NXE we ended up with is a different beast, it's interesting looking at what could have been. More »360 Avatar Update Only Sings When It's Winning
There's a whole swathe of new clothing options for your 360 avatar today. Thing is, unless you're European, and a European football fan at that, they won't be of much use to you. More »Braid Theme Costs Money, Braid Developer Sorry
The Xbox 360 has "premium themes", which will tart up your 360's menu in exchange for money. A premium theme based on Braid has just been released, and costs money. And Braid's creator is sorry. More »Your NXE Avatars Are Ready To Rave In The New Year
Wanted to go online New Year's Eve, but didn't have a virtual stitch for your avatar to wear? Never fear, totally fresh clothing and accessories for the New Xbox Experience are here. More »Soulja Boy Tells 'Em With His NXE Avatar
Soulja Boy's new song "Grind On" makes its video debut by way of his Xbox 360 Avatar. As horrible as it is for me to say this, I think it's actually a semi-catchy song. More »
Which of these NXE Avatars is the Fugliest?
Hawty McBloggy is holding a vote, open until midnight Monday, to select the Fugliest NXE Avatar from these seven butt-fugly candidates. You're well past the deadline to submit yours, but you can still be heard! More »Atari's Harrison is Console-Agnostic When it Comes to Kissing Ass
Phil Harrison, former Sony and current Atari exec, has heaped love on PlayStation Home, saying his former company "brilliantly realised" its goal. Then he smoochy-smoochied the NXE. Hey, it's all bidness, right?Thanksgiving Sunday Rumor Roundup
In the interest of getting some news to you in a slow cycle, let's start Sunday with a chatter roundup. More »Microsoft Lets New Territories In To XNA Gang
Now that Microsoft has got the New Xbox Experience launch out of the way and we have had a few days to dig into the Community Games channel, Redmond has decided to open up the service to more developers. More »