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MS Conference Highlights:

-The entire dashboard is being redesigned from scratch this Fall
-Every user now uses an Avatar
-Up to 8 friends can get together in a "Live Party", and chat, share photos and more
-Adding new Video Store partners: NBC, and Universal
-European Video Store getting MGM and... someone I cannot remember.
-Netflix being added directly to the dashboard
-Live Party friends can watch Netflix vids with you over the net
-New Primetime section allows users to play Live gameshows with friends
-Full retail disc games can be dumped to the HDD to cut down load times and disc spinning noises. The disc still has to be in as proof of ownership of course.
-16x10 resolutions supported over VGA and HDMI
-Marketplace can browsed via a normal web browser, and content can be sent directly to the 360 console from there.
-The current blade system is being condensed down into the new Guide, so that much like the PS3's in-game XMB, you can access all your content from anywhere on the system.

-Fallout 3 will get 360-and-PC-exclusive DLC
-Fable 2 dated for October 2008; development has finished
-Resident Evil 5 has online two-player co-op, dated for March 13th 2009
-Gears of War 2, includes new 5-man co-op mode called Horde, where you fight off wave after wave of enemies, coming November 7th worldwide
-Final Fantasy XIII comes to 360 the same day as PS3 (in the US and Europe)

-Rock Band 2 allows users to export "most" songs from the RB1 disc to play in RB2 (for a $5 unlock fee), in addition to all DLC. The RB2 disc includes 84 tracks, plus 20 free bonus tracks as DLC on day one. In total, there will be over 500 playable RB2 tracks by year's end.
-Guitar Hero: World Tour will get exclusive rights to Van Halen and the Eagles tracks
-GH3 (and GH:WT) will get Metallica's new album day-and-date with the standard release
-EBA (and Ouendan) developers Inis are creating Lips for 360. Think Singstar, but with wireless mics and the ability to pull songs from your iPod or Zune and sing them in game. Includes 2 wireless, light-up, motion sensitive mics.

-Scene It? Box Office Smash! coming this year, with Avatar support
-You're In the Movies announced, a camera-based family title where you play EyeToy style minigames and then get cut into a movie. Will ship with a Vision camera.

New Arcade titles coming soon:
-Portal: Still Alive, all-new test chambers - a 2008 exclusive on 360
-Banjo-Kazooie, the N64 original, coming this year
-Galaga Legions, the first true sequel to Galaga, developed by the Pac-Man CE team, dated for next month
-UNO Rush, with avatar support, coming later this year
-Geometry Wars 2, coming next month [EDIT: August 6th]
-South Park game. No details yet.

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Originally posted by Xeu

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-Banjo-Kazooie, the N64 original, coming this year

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Originally posted by insectduel

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Resident Evil 5 in March 2009.

Whoa. I hope it's good game but I hope it will be for the Wii than PS3.

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Originally posted by FX

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I hated the new dashboard at first too, but think about it. The blades is so clunky and slow and really shitty when you think about it. This will run a lot smoother.

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Originally posted by Vulkar

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I still haven't heard anything from Lucasarts though, I wonder what they've got up their sleeve this year...

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Originally posted by Xeu

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MS Conference Highlights:
-Resident Evil 5 has online two-player co-op, dated for March 13th 2009

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