Due for release before Christmas, the new Xbox 360 dashboard will feature a brand new, easy to navigate menu set-up featuring Twist Control.
During a demonstration at Gamescom this week, Robin Burrowes, Xbox Live product marketing manager for EMEA [Europe, Middle East and Africa], outlined Microsoft's vision for bringing together voice control and content in the upcoming refresh.
You can use the Xbox 360 controller to flick between channels that display at the top of the screen. The names of these channels are yet to be finalised, but you can check a few of them out in the video below.
You can also use your voice and hands to navigate and search, through motion-sensing add-on Kinect.
The new dash launches alongside other new features prompted by core user feedback. Under the Social channel you'll find Beacons, which allow gamers to signpost what they're doing across XBL and Facebook.
"That's been a little bit of a barrier," Burrowes explained. "The core community have been saying to us, 'I'm doing this one activity but I really want to play Call of Duty with my mates when I've got four or five of them online at the same time.' People are still text messaging each other and sending messages on other platforms. This is an easier way to do it."
Facebook posting is also added, which means you'll be able to "like" a game, sending Achievements to the social network. And then there's cloud storage, announced at E3 in June.
Twist Control and its additional features form part of a strategy Microsoft calls internally "games plus more than games". Burrowes said the "sweet spots" were music, movies and live TV.
"Twist Control" is a generic name for the panel-scrolling UI elements which appear in various Microsoft products.
cOz has just released the latest version of Dash Launch , a dashboard for Homebrew enabled Xbox 360's (JTAG).
What's new/fixed:
* moved strictly to C, much smaller DLL
* correct bug with busy CON/sometimes ignoring ini for boot time default item
* made boot time quick launch buttons more reliable
* added 1s delay to resolve autologin at boot issue and slower USB hdd issues
* patches updated to remove min version check (DA2)
Known Bugs:
* Some users have found that freestyle set as a default item or returning to freestyle from NXE via miniblade hook is freezing the machine. If you have issue with this bug, please use the 2.08 launch.xex in the files directory and re-run the updater
Daniel Maher, Xbox LIVE Editor for the EMEA region, tweeted today that we won't see the Fall 2010 Xbox 360 dashboard update today.
Apologies to everyone who's contacted us about the new dash launching today - it's actually coming sometime in November
There were growing rumors that the Fall 2010 Dashboard Update would happen today. Well, it's coming in November (Nov 4th), just before the release of Kinect.
Kinect requires the new dashboard update to operate.
The new Xbox 360 dashboard update is not that far away, so hang tight. We will do our best to keep you updated.
Screenshots of the upcoming FreeStyleDash v2.x update build for homebrew 360s have been released. Besides pictures of the Games List and Achievements screens, we also see they are working on integrating some XLink Kai support in the homebrew dashboard.
Since FreeStyle Dash will only use the remote functions from XLink, you will still need to run XLink Kai on your PC.
What is XLink Kai
XLink Kai allows system-link enabled multi-player Xbox360 games over the internet. This has only really been useful since the Dash Launch plugin removing the 30ms-ping-limit on the Xbox360.
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cOz has released a new version of Dash Launch. Dash Launch is a homebrew dashboard for homebrew Xbox 360's.
What's new/fixed:
* consider this a beta as we still have no clue why some ini issues occur*
- added version info to data struct exported at ordinal 1
- made number of times button holds are scanned variable, longer window at boot time to sync controller and hold a button
- added region spoofing for XGetGameRegion
- DVD video play from NXE now plays DVD regardless of default setting
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