Many gamers are looking forward to the NXE (New Xbox Experience), but I am dreading the event.  Several contacts of mine inside and outside of Microsoft have confirmed that the company is bracing for major problems. The new update could possibly result in the death of your Xbox 360.  I’m on my second 360 now and honestly do NOT plan on purchasing a 3rd.

Conveniently, the additional warranty Microsoft offered last year expires before the NXE launches.  While this is all speculation and hopefully will not happen, it seems Microsoft has been prepping their customer support teams for a crisis.  If I am forced to experience RROD again, I am calling it quits when it comes to gaming on Microsoft machines.  After 2 Xbox systems and 2 Xbox 360s, I do not plan on investing in anymore systems destined for the junk heap.

From what I have seen, NXE is faster and easier on the eyes than the dashboard setup we deal with now.  We can only hope that the NXE/RROD talk is just that… talk.  If not, Microsoft can forget about me gaming with them ever again.

Image via Gizmodo

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Yeah, that means Sony will not let you watch all those movies you’ve “borrowed” off the interwebs and stream them to your friends at the same time. It seemed a little too good to be true when it was announced but Wired lets us know that the feature has been axed…at least with this year’s release of Home.

The reason Microsoft can do video streaming is that it avoids legal issues by teaming up with Netflix — which already deals with film rights — in its upcoming dashboard update for the Xbox 360. We’ll have to see if Sony takes a similar approach or avoids it altogether in future updates to their social network.

Via Wired

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Kezins.com wasn’t able to trek out to the smog-filled vistas that the Los Angeles’ downtown sprawl has to offer this year for E3, but we will be filling you in on some of the more exciting things coming out of the week-long “festivities.”

The biggest show stopper was the reveal that Final Fantasy XIII is no longer a Sony exclusive and the PS3 version will be releasing alongside an Xbox 360 version day and date in the U.S. and Europe, as Perez just reported.

Hit the link for a quick rundown of everything else that was revealed, shown, and affirmed (as the pre-E3 leaks can attest to)…

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