…this one’s slick AND shaky. Here is a very hard-to-watch-at-times demo of the latest build of the New Xbox Experience.
Monthly Archives: August 2008
The New Xbox Experience, Part III: The New Xbox Guide
Hello all! I was going to finish out the last few items in the New Xbox Experience before doing this, but Major Nelson is set to do a couple of demonstrations today on the NXE, so I figured I’d pull out one of the more obscure reviews first. Namely, the new Xbox Guide, or also known as, “Where did my dashboard go?” I will circle back to those features later on, hopefully with some additional information from today’s demos.
The New Xbox Experience, Part II: Spotlight and Primetime
In our continuing investigation of all things NXE, the next two features to be discussed will be Spotlight and Primetime. Let’s begin by a brief screenshot and discussion of Spotlight.
The New Xbox Experience, Part I: My Xbox 360
What’s that you say? A new dashboard? For me? *swoon*
Over the next several days, I’ll be posting some observations I’ve made after poring over a couple of videos that have been released regarding the NXE (the New Xbox Experience, which I believe is the nom de plum of the new dashboard, out this fall):
The future is now… (Update)
…or something else grandiose.
I only have a moment or two to post this, but I want to be sure everyone knows about this. Some of you might remember me waxing poetic about Photosynth. Well…
YOU’VE GOT TO PULL IT TOGETHER MAN!
I’m going to start off by grabbing a few snippets of text that I’ve run into on the Internet over the past couple of days, and hopefully pull it together into an editorial of sorts.
The thesis of this editorial is probably best written by this commenter from a recent article on Ars Technica regarding the new Microsoft-authored deal with Warner Music to distribute premium (read: you want me to pay for this?) music videos over Xbox Live Marketplace. His name is Aedile, and this is what he had to say in response:
Bleeding Blu
Hello all. Criterion Games has announced that their again delayed 360-flavored Burnout update (this one’s named Cagney) is FINALLY hitting Xbox Live on Monday, August 4th (no trouble getting that PS3 patch out, huh guys…):
We’re delighted to be able to finally announce a date for the Xbox 360 release of our long-awaited software update – codenamed Cagney.
The update will be available on Monday 4th August.