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No Xbox 360 Spring Update This Year

Bad news for people who were looking forward to updated functionality in their Xbox Dashboard experience: Microsoft says there's no Spring Update coming this year. The 360 usually gets two feature updates a year, one in the spring and one in the fall. Instead of coding up some even fancier parental controls, the team's working on "buidling the proper infrastructure and scale for the service," meaning something or other, but there is a small update coming that will fix the problem where you can't re-license an XBLA game if your console went in for repairs and you got a new one. Dave Zatz says that a major UI overhall could be coming at the end of the year too. [Next-Gen]

11:13 AM on Fri May 23 2008
By Jason Chen
2,651 views, 21 comments

Latest by M.A.S.: @BonoMan: Actually if you listen to Major Nelson's podcast it is no longer a pain to do. You simply have to goto your account settings and "Download History" of your purchases and content. Everything will be relicensed and you can more »

rumor

Xbox 360 Spring Update Bringing 80 New Functions?

Our ground PONG-snorting buddies over at Kotaku have gotten their hands on a potentially legitimate list of new functions coming with the annual Xbox 360 Spring Update. In the list we see more confirmation of the Newton motion controller, as well as hints at a news/weather service, more hard drive game data caching and four-person video conferencing. Microsoft has denied the list by saying, "We don't comment on rumors or speculation, but what we can tell you is we've never seen this list before." Honest denial or tricky wordplay? You can decide for yourself with the list after the jump. More »

9:03 AM on Wed May 14 2008
By Mark Wilson
18,649 views, 64 comments

Latest by Rabid Penguin: @akmarksman: I only played around in the store and downloaded a few demos... that's it. It was pretty bad and slow, but I know they've changed it since I used it... to what, I don't know. more »

zune update

Zune 2.5 Update Brings TV Shows, More Social Networking, Improved Software Features

The Zune 2.5 Spring update launches tomorrow, and with it comes purchasable TV shows and even more social networking functions. The big part is more tightly-integrated social stuff—like being able to see your friends' Zune cards inside of the Zune software instead of heading to your browser—the upside of which is automatically getting the full tracks that your friends have recently listened to if you're a Zune Pass subscriber. This takes up about 100 megs per friend card. There's also improvement in the player itself, like the return of auto playlists and the introduction of gapless playback. Wee! More »

11:28 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Jason Chen
17,654 views, 71 comments

Latest by quikboy: This is a great update. Much better than the last one. I hope the Fall update is just as good (maybe with Zune 3?) more »

black levels

Xbox 360 Spring Update Fixes Washed Out VGA Display Problems

Remember all the problems people had with washed out colors on their Xbox 360 when using a VGA cable? Well, the Spring Update actually offers a fix to those problems, which came from different interpretations of black levels on HDTVs and PCs. Adjust the new settings in your display and you'll be set. – Jason Chen More »

6:15 PM on Thu May 10 2007
By Jason Chen
9,822 views, 3 comments