Living With a Nerd

Earlier during the summer @ E3 Microsoft made a host of announcements.  One of them was that there would be a new Xbox Live Update scheduled for release before the end of the summer.  Now I, like many, thought that this was MS being hyperbolic again and didn’t really expect much.  Well it seems as though the house that Gates built will be releasing this update some time in August and, from the looks of it, seems promising.

Some of those updates include: a smoother Party Invite and connection experience, Subscription Notification that tells you when your Gold Membership is about to bite the dust, and even the additions of Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm.

Now these are some note worthy enhancements and there is much more to look forward too, but the biggest enhancements have to be the Netflix Update and Games On-Demand.  From your console you can now watch movies streamed directly through your connection without interruption when your connection fluctuates, download more recent games like “Mass Effect” and save them straight to your console TO KEEP, and even host a movie watching where you and your friends via Xbox Live can enter a virtual theater and enjoy the same movie experience.

Yeah, me likes, me likes alot.