Well, the NXE is downloaded and installed, our avatar is fully kitted out with the correct haircut and chin and we’ve spent a bit of time fiddling around with the new interface. So what do we think?

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Saucer of milk for the Sony table! Just before Xbox 360’s much-hyped New Xbox Experience launched with its shiny new Netflix streaming service, a load of films were suddenly withdrawn from the list of available titles. The films in question, including Superbad and Bad Boys, were from Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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Sick of getting hand cramp trying to send text messages to your PlayStation Network buddies? Don’t worry, salvation for your twisted sinews is now in sight; Sony has revealed the launch details of its new PlayStation 3 Wireless Keypad accessory. The Chatpad clone will be available from 28^th November - just in time for Resistance 2 - and will cost £24.99.

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A Swedish teenager collapsed after an extended World of Warcraft session. The 15-year-old boy had been celebrating the launch of the latest WoW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, by inviting friends to his house for a 24-hour marathon bout of gaming. He suffered an epileptic fit caused by a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food and prolonged concentration on the game, doctors said.

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Just a quick reminder that today is the day when your Xbox 360’s dashboard gets a major overhaul. Wave goodbye to the blades, thumb bandits - the New Xbox Experience (aka NXE) is here!

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The animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has launched an attack on massively popular casual game Cooking Mama. PETA’s new microsite “Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals”, launched in time for the start of the US holiday season, features a Cooking Mama-like mini-game that sees you skinning and disembowelling dead turkeys in order to highlight cruel and barbaric treatment of farm animals.

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Want to navigate the post-apocalyptic irradiated ruins of Washington DC? Well, help is at hand – the good folks at Planet Fallout are compiling a Google Maps mashup of pretty much where everything you want to find, and really don’t want to find, in Fallout 3 is.

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The developer behind the massively successful Age Of Empires series and Halo Wars, the Halo universe realtime strategy game coming in February, has criticised Microsoft over the studio’s closure and the cancelation of its Halo massively multi-player online (MMO) game.

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