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 …

We still don’t have a date on when the new dashboard is actually going to land but it looks like a senior Product Manager over at Microsoft, Andrew Jenkins, may have let the cat out of the bag. In an interview with Current magazine he goes on to say “On the date we release it, it will be a global …

If you haven't visited Xbox.com recently, you wouldn't have noticed that a few changes have taken place. Microsoft have now added the ability to try out the new Xbox Dashboard Experience within their website by simulating the interface using flash. It does a pretty decent job of showing you how its going to work on a basic level but we are going to have wait for it's release before we get to fiddle around with all of the functions. Seeing that we don't really get to choose whether or not we want to switch to the new interface, we can at least start warming up to the idea. I personally think that the new dashboard is looking fantastic compared to the current one and the avatars aren't looking bad at all. Throw in the party system and 8 player conference chat and I am pretty much completely sold.