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After the break. The following movie is the latest installement of Major Nelson’s dev diary and takes a closer look at Avatars.

Learn how to customise them and all that stuff when the Autumn Dashboard Update eventually goes live sometime in the erm, autumn.

Worth watching, we thought.

By Mike Bowden

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There’s a movie on GameVee of the Major doing a presentation of Xbox Experience at PAX. There’s plenty of info in there about migrating groups within the Live update, Avatars, and so on. Worth watching.

Xbox Experience launches in November, says the internet.

Yep, the one with Avatars, game installations, and the like. According to RPG-TV, who sent a man out to a London showing of Microsoft’s new “Xbox Live Experience,” the Mii-too overhaul will be force-fed to your Internet-connected Xbox 360 this November.

So, excitement, etc.

By Nathan Grayson

Microsoft’s published its demo schedule for PAX 08, and there should be plenty there to keep you happy. Assuming you’re going to Seattle next week, obviously. And you’re into Marcus Fenix.

Gears 2 and a showing of Xbox Experience are both on show, neither of which made Leipzig last week, but there’s no sign of Halo Wars, Banjo, Viva 2 or Fable II.

Full thing through the link.

The Major’s confirmed that a small update was issued to Xbox Live today, but it’s only a teeny one, so don’t get excited.

“This update contains code to ‘prepare for future growth of the service,’” he said. “There are no other changes or enhancements in this update… in other words no new features.”

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X3F’s carrying what looks to be the first images of the Avatar creation system to be release for Xbox 360 this autumn as part of the Xbox Experience dashboard.

There’s nothing confirmed about this, but the PS3F 2.40 pics turned out to be genuine, so don’t be gigantically shocked if these do as well. Take a look.

Uh oh. Microsoft’s John Schappert gave an unnerving answer to VentureBeat when asked at E3 whether or not Xbox Live’s Avatar’s will come with microtransactions attached.

“That may be in the future,” he said. “In the near term, we want to launch these with great customization and a great library of accessories this fall.

“I think there is a lot more we can do with them. You will see us continue to add experiences that make use of the Avatar.”

Avatars were, of course, announced at E3 as part of the upcoming Xbox dashboard reboot. Tons more through the link.

Xbox-Scene’s carrying a movie of what’s supposedly a leaked version of Xbox Experience working on a modded 360.

The pirate version of the upcoming Xbox 360 dashboard apparently only works on machines installed with the Infectus 2 mod chip. You may know what that means. There’s more detail through the link.

There’s a video after the break, seemingly shot at E3, of Major Nelson showing Netflix working with the Xbox 360 UI revamp, Xbox Experience.

It looks pretty neat, truth be told, with users able to start watching their Netflix movies virtually instantly – why wasn’t this trumpeted in the conference? – and invite Friends to view films as they play.

Great if you’re American, obviously, but there’s no news on anything like this even being planned for European launch.

Watch it anyway. Netflix will be available through the new 360 dashboard this autumn.

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The Major’s posted up his E3 podcast, and it contains a ton of information on the Xbox 360 dashboard revamp, Xbox Experience. This is pretty much essential listening for anyone with a passing interest in the machine, as he goes into detail on party-forming and funtionality, the Netflix deal announced at the show, and heaps more. It’s an hour long, but worth a listen.

After the break. It’s a snippet from the IGN feed from the Microsoft E3 press conference last night, and shows the design of Xbox Experience and the look of Avatars.

There’s also stuff in there about navigation and how you can reach photos, games, and so on. Look.

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Missed this in the panic earlier. A new version of Uno, Uno Rush, was announced for XBLA in the Microsoft E3 press conference tonight. It’s out next month.

Apparently you’re going to be able to win real-life prizes in it.

Power-news.

Joystiq is reporting that NBC and Universal Studios are releasing both television and movie content respectively on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Video Marketplace today.

NBC will be bringing TV shows in the shape of Monk, The Office and Battlestar Galactica whilst Universal will offer films like 12 Monkeys, The Bourne Supremacy, The Mummy and The Chronicles of Riddick.

A bit more through the link, but not much.

By Mike Bowden

Engadget’s posted up a good gallery of shots of Xbox Experience, the newly-announced Xbox 360 dashboard revamp, just shown fro the first time in Microsoft’s E3 press conference.

Avatars, parties, shared movies: all sorts of stuff’s included. Check out this for more info.

Nelson just posted up a bunch of information on Xbox Experience, the new 360 dashboard just announced in the Microsoft E3 press conference for release this autumn.

In there’s confirmation that you’re soon going to be able to copy games to your HD completely.

Check this out:

• Play from hard drive. Copy your games from the game disc and play directly from the hard drive. Not only will the drive not spin, but load times are quicker, as well. Of course, you will still need the disc in the tray to prove you own the game.
• Access Xbox LIVE Marketplace on the Web. Browse and purchase Marketplace content whenever you want from Xbox.com and it downloads automatically to your console. Purchase that new map, television episode, the latest Xbox LIVE Arcade game or set up a movie to watch when you get home from work.
• Dashboard built into the new Xbox Guide. For everyone who loves the blades interface, it’s not going away; they are now built directly in to the new Xbox guide. Every feature and option is available right from the guide. You can even access your full games library at all times. No matter where you are (in dash or in game), immediately call up your games played list and directly launch a game.
• LIVE Party system. Create a party of up to eight friends, and stay with them from one game to another, or watch a Netflix movie together, or share a slideshow of your personal photos. It works with all Xbox 360 titles, not just upcoming games. LIVE Party allows up to eight people to chat in the dashboard, so you can meet up before playing.
• Xbox LIVE Primetime. This whole new category of games is going to give you more reasons to get online with your friends. Games will support everything you’d expect, like Achievements and leader boards, but many of these games will include real prizes. You can invite your friends, and even set a reminder for an upcoming show. Each game is broadcast simultaneously, so everyone is answering the same questions. Many events will have a live host, calling the shots as they happen.
• Avatars. Your online identity started as a Gamertag – it then grew into a personalized Gamercard. Now, it has evolved even further into avatars. You can express your style, check out new outfits and share this with the community. Avatars will also be integrated into Xbox LIVE Arcade games, LIVE Party, as well as retail games.
• New display support. Because you asked for it, we are adding 16X10 over VGA or HDMI, and support for 1440×900 or 1680×1050.

More through the link.

Microsoft just confirmed that Avatars will come to the new Xbox 360 dashboard this autumn.

Live Party, up to eight friends chatting together, was also shown, as were Avatars being customised with clothing, and so on.

Microsoft has just shown “Xbox Experience,” the new interface for the console. This autumn.

The dashboard looks completely different from the current edition, the main update being the now-announced Avatars. The design is grey, and features rolling functionality similar to Vista.

Hopefully Microsoft will release some images after its ongoing E3 conference.