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Looking for simple answers to your Xbox 360 dashboard redesign questions? Here are a few points to take away from the new Xbox experience:

“There’s nothing to announce” right now regarding a keyword search for the Marketplace. We hope for some kind of searching option or a better layout for content
Playing games from the hard drive will work fine for multi-disc games; in fact, you can pick which discs you want to rip (but a disc swap for the correct disc in the drive is required)
As an example, Joystiq was told that Devil May Cry 4 is approximately a 4 or 5GB installation and takes about 10 minutes to copy onto a harddive: PS3 installation is roughly 18-25 mins
You’ll need to keep the disc in the drive the entire time. This is about speeding up load times and to check if you own the title — […]

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Coming straight from Microsoft’s Community Briefing yesterday (the same one where we got the chance to nibble on delicious chocolate delights), we learned that an Avatar’s wardrobe could not only be comprised of those items offered through normal channels, but could potentially come from the earning of game achievements.
Team Microsoft said that the potential is there and developers are showing interest in offering unlockable Avatar content using game achievements. Think of items like a Gears of War 2 tshirt for your Avatar to wear if you earn the Seriously achievement or the unlock of a special ninja mask for completing Ninja Gaiden II on the hardest difficulty. It’d be an extra incentive to go after an achievement IF the achievement itself isn’t enough, but the rub here is that you have to actually care about your Avatar’s clothing. Us, we’re all about forgoing the whole wardrobe unlock […]

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Things are moving really, really, fast in the world of the 360 right now. After the news that the Dashboard would be receiving a makeover, many of you thought that it was the end of the known world. Luckily, Major Nelson has updated his blog with some of the many new details of the new interface. The first of which is that the blades interface isn’t going away, it’s now just a smaller part of the larger Xbox Guide.
Even bigger though is the option to install games entirely to the HDD for faster load times and no disc drive noise. However, to get the installed game to boot, the disc has to still be in the drive for an initial check to make sure you still own it.
The new party system that’s built into the interface supports up to eight people and allows for chat, sharing of […]

Filed under: News, E3

Things are moving really, really, fast in the world of the 360 right now. After the news that the Dashboard would be receiving a makeover, many of you thought that it was the end of the known world. Luckily, Major Nelson has updated his blog with some of the many new details of the new interface. The first of which is that the blades interface isn’t going away, it’s now just a smaller part of the larger Xbox Guide.
Even bigger though is the option to install games entirely to the HDD for faster load times and no disc drive noise. However, to get the installed game to boot, the disc has to still be in the drive for an initial check to make sure you still own it.
The new party system that’s built into the interface supports up to eight people and allows for chat, sharing of […]