Thursday, May 10, 2007

Spring has sprung on the 360

The spring dashboard update for the Xbox360 has come out, and it looks pretty good. I'm not going to go into too much detail because there are some VERY comprehensive outlines out there in the tubes. But, subjectively the update has sped up the interface, and the new blade for the marketplace is nice, but the thing that I have enjoyed the most is the Live Messenger integration into the current messaging service on XBL.

The other big thing is that by highlighting the disc tray [which now shows the name of the disc in the tray], you get a quick overview of your in-game progress, including your recent achievements, and your current score over the total gamer score available.

In the game we finally have the detail of the achievement that you just achieved, that you used to have to stop the game to view. The last thing that I loved was that the new video codec support; h.264 is great for us mac users.

Well I'm going to head off to buy more storage for my network... 4TB just isn't enough anymore.

Until then,

T

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