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Surprise Football Game Pops Up On Xbox Live

4:40AM Stephen Totilo | Move over Madden. There’s a new football game on my Xbox 360. And it stars Avatars. Oh, and I don’t know how it got there. More »
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A Second Hands-On Opinion Of The Xbox 360’s Instant-Streaming

8:00AM Stephen Totilo | I, with my 955kbps downstream Internet connection, reported earlier today that the November-scheduled offering of instant-streaming 1080p wasn’t working on my sluggish connection. But a man with a 25mbps-downstream connection has a different take: “Incredible.” More »
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Xbox 360 Update Hands-on: Last.FM In Action

3:20AM Stephen Totilo | The final part of our Xbox 360 November dashboard update saves the best for last, without intending the pun. Here’s Last.FM in action on my 360, injecting a bit of Zelda and MF Doom into my system. More »
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Xbox 360 Preview Hands-On: The Stuff That Didn’t Work

2:20AM Stephen Totilo | Instant streaming in 1080p? Microsoft did warn that its new Zune video marketplace might not allow for streaming for people with slower (slow-ish?) connections. This is my low-point in my three-part preview of the 360’s new dashboard. More »
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Xbox 360 Update Hands-On: Facebook And Twitter

1:40AM Stephen Totilo | Microsoft provided Kotaku with an early version of the November Xbox 360 dashboard update. I just tested Twitter and Facebook on my 360. Watch. More »
News

Microsoft: Most Studios Support Netflix Party Viewing

7:40AM Brian Crecente | The ability to watch movies as a group online using Netflix and avatars is not supported by all of the movies on the service, Microsoft confirmed to Kotaku today. More »
Media

Xbox 360 Avatar Marketplace: Giant Cotton Swabs To Steampunk Goggles

1:00AM Brian Crecente
Avatars, long the ignored, under-dressed face of the Xbox 360, are getting an overhaul. But it will cost you. New clothing and props from popular games including The Secret of Monkey Island and Halo will be hitting the 360 next month. More »
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Netflix Party Play In Action

12:40AM Brian Crecente | The update to Xbox 360’s Netflix, which came as a separate download, deals with many of the issues that the streaming service had, but introduces a couple of new one. More »
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Hands On With Xbox 360’s New Dashboard

12:20AM Brian Crecente
This morning Microsoft sent the much-anticipated Xbox 360 dashboard update to a group of game writers to check out before it hits officially on Aug. 11. More »

More On The New Xbox Live – Copy Games To HDD

6:40AM Mike Fahey | Xbox LIVE GM Marc Whitten followed-up Microsoft’s E3 press conference with a letter posted over at Larry Hryb’s site, which further details the new Xbox Live experience that’s coming our way this fall. Among the innovative new features is the ability to load your games from the disc directly to your hard drive, bypassing the disc drive to allow games to run faster and smoother. Going to assume that the disc would still be required to play the game – otherwise Blockbuster would be seeing a huge, one-time spike in rentals. Then there’s the ability to access Xbox Live Marketplace via the web on your computer or any other web-enabled device (PS3?), allowing you to purchase new games, demos, DLC and the like from the relative comfort of wherever you happen to be at the time. The live party feature allows you to team up with up to eight friends and go from game to game, both new and old, while sharing photos, watching a Netflix video together, etc., all without ever disconnecting from one another. Hit up the link for more info, including the addition of 16×10 support via HDMI and VGA. Woot! Some of the features in the new Xbox experience (8 person chat, VGA support and more) [Xbox Live's Major Nelson] More »