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Microsoft's New Xbox Live Update: Eight Things You May Not Know (RunDLC)

You can expect a new Xbox Live experience, right before Kinect's November 4th launch. Microsoft has already gone public with the ESPN and Zune features, and now it wants to fill you in on eight additional changes that should make the experience even more enjoyable. Here's what you can expect.

John Artest (RunDLC)

Buff10444948d ago

Absolutely! Can't wait for this. It seems like Microsoft has packed it full of great stuff.

MorganX4948d ago

It is. Fast, clean. The new sounds are soft and nice. Like the new Xbox power and eject sounds. The new Netflix UI is fast as well and, at least on new Xbox, streaming over Wireless-N results in HD with no downgrading to SD due to bandwith loss. Feel free to disconnect the wires.

ESPN rocks as well. I got to see the Michigan vs Indiana game and watch Denard Robinson go nuts for the Wolverines in streaming HD. Good stuff Maynard.

Buff10444948d ago

Ah you're lucky to have early access. Can't wait tho. Should be sweet. I like what you said about the eject sounds. It's about time.

MorganX4948d ago

On the eject sound, that's not from the dash. That's a part of the new 360S. But all the sounds in the new dash are similar, techy/soft.

IRetrouk4947d ago (Edited 4947d ago )

sorry morgan but the new dashboard is just as slow as the old one, i have it too, it looks worse than the old one too, do not like the squared off look.

plb4948d ago

I see they left out the bit where they added $10 to the price.

TheLeprachaun4948d ago

Hardly part of the xbox live update is it?

Pootangpie4948d ago (Edited 4948d ago )

people like you on here are the very reason why I'm not getting a PS3 ever way to make you fellow fans look bad

k-Lan4948d ago

"people like you on here are the very reason why I'm not getting a PS3 ever"

I follow you on that one. The PS N4G community is an embarassment to gaming. Obviously there are a few other reasons as well.

As for the update, i can't wait. It looks so much quicker and i love the new look of the dash.

This is what you call an update! It's not a weekly update with no content.

IRetrouk4947d ago

sorry but trolls are on both side, were you on n4g when the ps3 first came out? i was and the xbox fans gave sony fans stick every day, all thats happened is that the ps3 has a lot more users than in them days, both sets of fanboys are a dissgrase but to say it just the ps3 crowd is silly.

BigPenguin4947d ago

@Iretouk: Agreed, anyone who complains about all the "PS3 fanboys" is a new N4G user. This place was 360 trolls up the ass for 2 years after the PS3 came out.

Now that PS3 has finally been acknowledged as objectively superior by most everyone, all the old trolls have blended back into the background. So now all the new 360 users of this site bitch and moan nonstop about how their chosen console gets rightly bashed. MS deserves the shit they get about the 360, this is coming from someone who owns a 360, pays for live, and will continue to pay for at least for another year when my sub runs out in December.

I have all 3 consoles, and there is a clear difference between them.
PSN: BigPenguin XBL: BigRoundPenguin

IRetrouk4947d ago (Edited 4947d ago )

thank god, someone finaly talking some sence, i, like you also own all 3 consoles, i also pay for live twice, one for me and one for the fiance, and i agree the ps3 is superior when used correctly, most things the ps3 was bashed for were very silly reasons, yet micro got away with a lot, bubbles to you for speaking the truth .

XBL- IR3TR0 PSN- xTSxRetro

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plb4948d ago (Edited 4948d ago )

Er why? It's the truth. You're paying for services (and soon will be paying more), most of which are available for free on PSN and paying for DLC free on Stream. I won't deny that the new interface looks nice but paying for the majority of those services are ridiculous. Even Valve has been having a go at MS and Xbox Live.

mrcash4948d ago

in your opinion its ridiculous, if you can't bring yourself to pay 5$ a month for something that you enjoy then so be it, but you needn't judge. 5 a month isn't bad at all, if you don't like it great that's your prerogative. At the end of the day it comes down to the quality of the service and many people prefer the quality of live than psn.

bananlol4948d ago

The price is not the issue, its the principle.

mrcash4948d ago

Yeah they added 83cents a month what a rip off, I guess some people can't afford that much of an increase.

MorganX4948d ago

ESPN alone is worth 83 cents a month. I'm only interested in Wolverine NCAA games, but wait until BBall season. Oh boy.

MorganX4948d ago

The funny thing is since the price increase announcement, discounts have been more plentiful than ever before, even from MS themselves. If everyone takes advantage of the steep discounts, MS will be hurting over the next couple years with regards to subscription sales. It's ridiculous right now. Why increase it if your'e going to give such steep deals all over the place. Interesting. Has to be long term vision, get new subscribers with Kinect now and get an extra $10 from them a few years down the road. LOL. Really, they're counting on marketplace sales I'm sure.

mrcash4948d ago

yup, they have a 2 year sub for 84 and they give you 1600 points not bad really.

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JUDALATION4948d ago

Why charge for all these features that many wont use when you can just add a browserlike the wii/ps3 and all these features and then some would be implemented???

The Lazy One4948d ago

did you read the article? I don't think any of these additions would be helped by a browser.

Pootangpie4948d ago

you want to browse that's what a PC is for

TheLeprachaun4948d ago

Yeh I can count the amount of times I've used my wii/ps3 browser on one hand. Saying that though, perhaps there's people who find them useful.

Buff10444947d ago

Yeah, I've never really had the urge to sit on my couch and use a console to surf the web. But I could see it being of key importance to other people.

alexg894948d ago

Yes i do think MS should add a browser

but i do like that MS is adding these things in, even if they are rasing the price :(

iLLMATICxKiNG4948d ago

Anyone know when we are seeing it? This month, perhaps?

MorganX4948d ago

Kinect on 4th, so probably a day or so before that.

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Looking Back At 2008, An Unbelievably Incredible Year Of Video Game Releases

Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."

ChasterMies8h ago

Some of these low paid video game “news” writers weren’t born before 2007.

just_looken3h ago

Here here

Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.

I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing

CrimsonWing6919h ago

I don’t think anything can compare to 2023

lucasnooker18h ago

1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.

It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!

KyRo18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.

Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.

CrimsonWing6918h ago(Edited 18h ago)

Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.

Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:

- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2

I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.

Profchaos15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.

I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.

I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.

But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.

Gameseeker_Frampt6h ago

Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.

2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.

just_looken3h ago

It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5

Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.

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6 Fun Games Where You Actually Play As The Bad Guy

While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.

Profchaos1d ago

Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.

It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny

Tacoboto23h ago

Armored Core VI?

Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.

Is something big coming soon to branch the story?

banger8823h ago

No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).

ChasterMies13h ago

Trevor in GTA 6 is a sadist and psychopath who dabbles in cannibalism. Should be top of the list. These game “news” sites should hire people that know games.

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Essential Video Games Everyone Needs To Play At Least Once

Video games are no longer just a simple past time. Today's games are evolving into true works of art. Offering intriguing narratives, cinematic setpieces, and profound messages, games can entertain us for hundreds of hours.

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Chard1d 17h ago (Edited 1d 17h ago )

I never got around to mass effect - I’m skeptical that it would hold up if I were to try it now

Furesis1d 16h ago

I would say it does. The combat is a bit shit for todays standards but everything else is great.

anast1d 15h ago

It's worth a play through today.

gold_drake1d 8h ago

the first one is abit the odd one out but after u finished it, believe it it gets tremendously better and better