Earlier in July it was announced by Microsoft that they would be releasing yet another update for the Xbox Live service. The update was planned for August 11th and now with less than a week to go before the update, they have released further details about what we will be seeing next week. Although this update won’t contain all the new features that were announced at E3 this year, there are still some good ones to look forward to. There are 2 major new features coming to the Xbox Live service next week. The first one being the Avatar Marketplace which will allow you to purchase clothing and props for your Xbox 360 avatar. Today on the Xbox Press site,…

Yesterday, Microsoft official announced the next update to Xbox Live. Although it doesn’t bring all the features talked about at Expo 2009, there’s still a number of good ones that we will be getting our hands on. Below you will find some of the features that you can expect to see coming to your Xbox this August. Updates for Netflix: The online movie service is being updated allowing you to watch movies with your Xbox Live buddies using a virtual cinema which hold 7 people. You will also be able to manage the queue of your movie downloads to suite your needs. Avatar Marketplace: Microsoft will be launching the new Avatar Marketplace which will allow you to buy clothing and…

A huge amount has been said about the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band game, especially at E3 this year where there was a huge section of introduction and showing gameplay. However, how about the competition? Guitar Hero 5 is also be released in September, only one week before the release of The Beatles game (a tactic by Activision to try and get more sales of their game over Rock Band). It appears to me that not a huge amount has been said about the great new features that we will see in Guitar Hero 5. There are a couple of massive new features in Guitar Hero 5 that we have never seen before in any previous music games. The first…

Like I said in my previous post, after talking about the upcoming releases for the Xbox 360, they then moved onto talking about the new features that would be coming to the Xbox in the next few months. The first thing they talked about was mainly entertainment based. Starting off with the announcement that they will be integrating Last FM music features to the Xbox dashboard. It will allow you to browse and listen to millions of tracks on your 360, all of which will be free for Xbox Live Gold members. They then continued onto film. Currently you can download films through the xbox 360 dashboard, which takes time, or you can use a disc, which can be noisy….

E3 has arrived now and it’s already looking amazing. The convention has started with a conference by Microsoft which has included 10 new releases that haven’t previously been announced. The first thing was The Beatles: Rock Band which was not one of the 10 games, but they had a huge section of trailers aswell as a section from Paul McCartney and Ringo Star. The first game to be announced was Tony Hawks Ride which is a brand new skating game that gives you even more control by having a skate board controller. Similar to the Wii balance board the skateboard controller is in the shape of a skateboard with motion sensors and touch sensitive pads which registers your movements and…