Posts Tagged ‘new xbox experiance

My First Day With NXE: Lots of Good, A Few First Day Problems

I arrived home from work extra early yesterday (yes, I have a full time job, Project Silence does not pay the bills), to jump on the NXE and check out all the new bells and whistles. I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of my experiences with those who haven’t yet had [...]

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Netflix Streaming Does Not Include Columbia Pictures on Xbox

If you were planning to stream some Columbia Pictures (who just so happens to be owned by Sony) movies on your Xbox 360 now that you have the NXE, forget-about-it. It seems Netflix could not secure the rights to stream Columbia owned features to the Xbox 360, from Joystiq:
All of the affected titles from our [...]

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Xbox.com Maintenance Tonight

If you were planning to chat it up on the Xbox.com Forums tonight, forget about it. Major Nelson says that Xbox.com and all features including the forums will be offline starting at 12:01 A.M. Pacific Time tonight. The maintenance is expected to last 4 hours and should not affect Xbox Live.
Seems like Xbox.com will require [...]

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NXE Social Details Video for Developers

One of our readers (and friends) has found this video from Microsoft. It’s intended for developers, but it outlines some interesting facts about the new social experiences for the New Xbox Experience.
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Project Silence Podcast 37: Me Bludgen is a Gun

In a stroke of amazing luck we have a very special podcast for you this week. Amazingly, Jason Statham, the actor famous for classics such as The Transporter, Transporter 2 and the upcoming classic, Transporter 3, stopped by the studio for an exclusive interview*. This plus all the usual news and reviews as only Jay [...]

 
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New Xbox Experiance Load Tests

Eurogamer has done some pretty hefty tests of just how much faster the new Xbox 360 dashboard (coming on the 19th) is with a game installed to the hard drive versus the old fashioned way of reading off the disk (that is so 2007). Speeds don’t seem all that much faster, but when you consider [...]

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