Xbox LIVE has been a stunning, benchmark setting, generation defining success. Games for Windows LIVE has so far been, well, somewhat less so, and has been out manoeuvred repeatedly by rival services including Steam and Xfire. But Microsoft hasn’t given up on it yet, and it has big plans for the coming year. The first phase has been an overhaul of the current GfW LIVE front end to match the NXE redesign, and soon it will be adding exclusive DLC content to its arsenal from big titles like Fallout 3 and GTA IV.

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Microsoft has drawn inspiration from the likes of Tupperware, Avon and Ann Summers in a fresh bid to boost the Xbox 360’s family-friendly image. The console maker has recently hired around 1,000 women from a broad range of backgrounds to demo the console and its Xbox LIVE service to their friends and family, and generally spread the word to those demographics that are still belligerently buying Wiis.

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Blimey! Fable 2 barely seems to have cooled on the shelves and already we’re entering the DLC zone. Come on Lionhead, don’t you realise you’re supposed to wait until everyone’s got bored of your game before releasing more of it? The Fable II Knothole Island pack will be arriving on Xbox Live on December 22^nd, which should give you a very good reason to stay tucked up warmly inside over the winter break.

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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.

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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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Microsoft and Blizzard have been warming up for the US holidays with a seasonal display of warmth to humanity – by banning hundreds of thousands of their users from Xbox Live and Battle.net.

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Don Mattrick, Microsoft Xbox’s new Senior Vice President has claimed that he “invented avatars”. In an interview conducted at E3, but only just released, Mattrick goes on to pinpoint the moment when humanoid, controllable figures with faces in 3D were first used.

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A lot of things get pirated in this broadband era: music, games, movies, books, software… Now we can add a new item to that list. Xbox 360 Dashboard updates. Right now a download that will give your console the New Xbox Experience (NXE) overhaul is spreading across Torrent networks.

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