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This Is The New Xbox Experience That Could Have Been [Xbox 360]
kotaku.com - 1/30/2009
This Is The New Xbox Experience That Could Have Been [Xbox 360]
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Design firm Grid/plane worked with Microsoft on early design ideas for the New Xbox Experience. While the NXE we ended up with is a different beast, it's interesting looking at what could have been. While Grid/plane's ideas obviously centred around a new menu system, they also "dreamt up an ...
gamerscoreblog.com - 2/2/2009
Exclusive “Resident Evil 5” Demo Downloaded By 1.8 Million fans on Xbox LIVE
— gamerscoreblog.com — Over the weekend, download figures for the Resident Evil 5 Demo on Xbox LIVE surged past 1.8... Million, wrapping up the first week on Xbox LIVE....( read more ) (more) Exclusive “Resident Evil 5” Demo Downloaded By 1.8 ...

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Rare: User-generated content likely for Avatars
vg247.com - 2/6/2009
Rare: User-generated content likely for Avatars
— vg247.com — Rare’s told VG247 that the Xbox community “may” receive features allowing them to create their own Avatar... kit, saying that user-generation was simply too big a deal to force into NXE’s launch last year. “User-generated ... (more) Rare: User-generated content likely for Avatars

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Microsoft Finally Fixes NXE HDMI SNAFU [New Xbox Experience]
kotaku.com - 2/3/2009
Microsoft Finally Fixes NXE HDMI SNAFU [New Xbox Experience]
— kotaku.com — The Xbox 360 's " New Xbox Experience " wasn't filled with the joyful noise of Avatar... belches for some owners of the console. Some found their HDMI-ready systems without sound, which Microsoft is now, finally, addressing. Following the NXE roll out ... (more) Microsoft Finally Fixes NXE HDMI SNAFU [New Xbox Experience]

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Destructoid:  Rejected NXE design looks like it's smeared with spunk

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Rejected NXE design looks like it's smeared with spunk
Destructoid — This is a little glimpse of what the New Xbox Experience could well have become, and as you can see, everything looks like it was coated with a thin layer of semen. Or maybe that's just how I choose to see things. Design firm Gridplane worked on these when NXE was in its early phases. Aesthetically, it looks a bit bleak, but it seems like navigation might have been a little more intuitive than the current "visuals-over-usability" focus of the official NXE.  "The time was spent exploring many ways that a new menu system could allow users to browse and navigate game libraries, music, movies and TV ...

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Gridplane shows off what the NXE could have been
xbox.joystiq.com 1/30/2009 — Design and animation studio Gridplane has revealed one of the many mock-ups it developed for Microsoft as a potential user-interface update, which later became the NXE . Tasked with creating new ways for users to interact with multimedia, this ...
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Design firm Grid/plane worked with Microsoft on early design ideas for the New Xbox Experience. While the NXE we ended up with is a different beast, it's interesting looking at what could have been. While Grid/plane's ideas obviously centred around a new menu system, they also "dreamt up an ...