There's a rather long list of compelling reasons to avoid updating to the New Xbox One Experience right now if you're in the preview program.

Forget the upcoming national elections in April. Who cares about national governance when there’s really important stuff to vote on. As of March 3, you’ll be able to cast your votes for the best Xbox Live Arcade had to offer in 2008, using the New Xbox Experience’s spotlight channel. My votes will likely be spread between Super Street Fighter II …

Microsoft has said new clothes will regularly be added for Xbox 360 Avatars, and most importantly they will be free. That’s according to MS Germany’s Boris Schneider-Johne, who told Dreisechzig.net this will certainly be the case for the first few weeks. Last Updated: November 24, 2008

Microsoft has always been big about online gameplay as a key feature of its Xbox systems. In fact as far as console go Microsoft are the responsible for bringing online play to the mass market. The multi-billion dollar investment in the Xbox Live online game service is what is supposed to distinguish Microsoft systems from the competition. Xbox Live hit …

Xbox 360 ‘NXE Avatar Daft Punk’ clip So it took little over a day for gamers to come up with some new uses for Avatars, first up – Music videos. Have a look at these two groovy videos Xbox Live user Tronic Games whipped up using only the new dashboard, some electronica, and a little imagination. It’s gonna be cool …

Microsoft believe that with the New Xbox Live Experience will turn Xbox Live into more of a Social networking system. Shades of this intent have been visible since the last large update for the current system where Bio’s and such where introduced. But just how far do Microsoft want to go with this? Last Updated: November 18, 2008

The New Xbox Experience, as we all know, is officially dated for release on November 19. But this is the Internet age, and nothing ever stays bottled up until its official release. Sure enough, reports have circulated the net that the download files for the NXE have leaked online, but before you figure it couldn’t hurt anyone to get an …

Microsoft South Africa have confirmed that they will be participating in the Arcade and Core upgrade system put in place to ready users of Xbox 360’s who lack any sort of storage hardware. Pricing is still to be finalised but it’s great to know that it is happening. As for Live support in South Africa, well that’s a story for …