Game Downloads

There are plenty of new features coming with the New Xbox Experience when it launches on November 19, but one that won't be included is the ability to share movies and photos with your friends online. But according to Xbox director of marketing Albert Penello, that's a feature that could easily be added in the future thanks to the soon-to-be revamped structure of the Xbox dashboard.

Tokyo Game Show 2008 Cosplayer Photos
The good, the bad, and the crazy cosplay at TGS 2008.

Earlier this year, Microsoft stirred up a small hubbub when they announced they would be delisting some Xbox Live Arcade titles that met certain criteria of underperformance -- slow sales, bad reviews, etc. But at the Tokyo Game Show earlier this week, Xbox Live corporate vice president John Schappert told IGN that won't be the case. Rather, Schappert said Microsoft has only ever "set parameters by which we can delist," but insisted they wouldn't move forward on limiting the size of XBLA titles offered.

Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classifications strikes again. According to a listing picked up on by NeoGAF (via Kotaku), it appears as though THQ has stepped in to publish 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, after the game was dropped by Activision earlier this year.

There's a lot to look forward to in the upcoming New Xbox Experience -- set to launch on November 19 -- but for those who own Xbox 360s without a hard drive or a 256MB memory card, you may have to go through a few headaches before you can download it. Speaking to Xbox360Fanboy, Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb revealed that the full download size of the NXE will be 128MB, which will make it too large for a "small percentage" of 360 owners sans hard drive.