Avatars – pointless gamepad puppets or ultimate expression of online identity? Discuss…
Actually, don’t bother. If you have a New Xbox Experience avatar that you are quite fond of, though, you can now start to use it to express your oh-so-quirky personality on social networking sites using a free tool from Microsoft.
According to an article in The Sunday Times, Sony’s PS3 Home virtual world – the console’s rival to Nintendo’s Miis and Microsoft’s “New Xbox Experience” – is set to launch within nine days.
Following last week’s appearance of the first Jasper Xbox 360s, Microsoft has revealed that the budget-priced Xbox 360 Arcade model has now moved to physical internal memory storage. Instead of getting a 512MB external memory unit, each console comes with 256MB of flash memory on the mainboard.
Remember the hoo-hah over Sony pulling most of its films from Netflix last week? Well it’s (almost) been reversed, with the majority now available again almost exactly a week later.
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An anonymous customer service rep for Microsoft predicted that the New Xbox Experience update for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console would cause serious problems for a minority of owners – including the infamous “RRoD” Red Ring of Death, meaning a dead console. And now it looks like, for some, those predictions have come true.
Electric Pig has already posted five things you didn’t know about Microsoft’s new user-interface update for its Xbox 360 console: the “New Xbox Experience“. But now word reaches us of a sixth secret embedded in the update: crazy hair colours.
By now, most Xbox 360 owners have probably had the chance to spend time tinkering with the New Xbox Experience update. It’s a radical reimagining of the console’s interface and has added a load of new features, including the oft-debated Avatars. But if you’ve only spent time customising your new character and ripping Gears of War 2 to the hard drive, then you might have missed some of the other less well-know features. Read on for five of our faves.