Monday, May 7, 2007

Xbox dashboard spring update week of May 7




* The update hits the beginning of the week of May 7th
* Your contact list will now integrate Windows Live Messenger, and show joinable session status
* Messenger contacts can see what game you're playing, and your gamertag
* Marketplace will now have its own blade, which will be skinned independent of your theme
* Users will now get inline achievement updates (i.e. see what achievement you just unlocked and how much it's worth).
* Low-power download mode and auto-shutdown
* Progressive download: watch, fast-forward, and rewind partially downloaded movies
* You can text chat messenger six friends playing games watching movies
* Multiple tweaks on the user interface

2 comments:

Stompy said...

It's about friggin time.

Here's a big one that wasn't listed. Supposedly, it will now tell you what game is in the drive, not just prompt you to play whatever random game you happened to leave in there the last time you shut it down.

Ian said...

ooo thats a good one stompy, i often wonder what game i have in the tray