Microsoft has officially unleashed the Xbox Experience, or NXE, upon Xbox 360 owners everywhere, and it's... well... interesting.

Yesterday, millions of Xbox 360 consoles were given the opportunity to "transform", as Microsoft calls it in their press release.  Personally, I'm thinking that the average user will just think of it as a new GUI.  Microsoft added a tonne of new functionality in what looks to be an effort to attract more users to the product, instead of pleasing the masses of existing users.  The new Xbox Experience contains a completely redesigned GUI that adds a more cartoony feel to the console.  I wasn't personally impressed by it.

The worst part is that the Xbox Media Center Extender still doesn't support the DivX codecs that are already on the console from the last update.

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The video really does say it all.  This game is going to kick some serious ass.  This particular title will be released on both XBOX 360 and Playstation 3.  Check out the official website for UFC 2009 Undisputed.  Be warned, it does take a minute to load this site.  Inside you'll find the community forums, teaser videos, screenshots and more.  A must for UFC fans everywhere!

This week something truly magical happened to me, I finally acquired an Xbox 360 and let me tell you - it rocks.  I've been terrorizing Liberty City via Grand Theft Auto IV, and honing my driving skills at the track in Need For Speed: ProStreet.  One of the first things that I did was run a new network connection to my entertainment centre just for my shiny new Xbox. 

My original goal for setting up the network was to play with setting up the Xbox as a media extender, and in doing so I discovered that my Xbox needed some upgrades.  Most of the content that I view with my media centre PC is DIVX/XVID encoded videos and that doesn't play very nicely with the Xbox.  There is hope though.  After doing some research, I discovered that the latest updates for the Xbox contain DIVX/XVID codecs.  Sweet.

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