Microsoft has issued a statement of apology for those whose Xbox 360s have been giving them the silent treatment after installing the Faulty New Xbox Experience. Microsoft is now working on a solution for the sound output problem.

Oy vey... Looks like the New Xbox Experience dashboard update is experiencing some not-so-new Xbox woes. November 19: launch day for the NXE update. Not 24 hours after it went live, complaints are already piling up. Various forums online have threads and threads of people reporting anything from connection freezes, slow downs, lock ups, broken TV connections, and so many other different numerical errors... inlcluding reports of RRoD'ed brickage.

Kicking off the New Xbox Experience dashboard update next week is a contest from Microsoft. If you're lucky, you just might take home that grand prize of 500,000 MS Points. Damn! That's... *calculates* ...a LOT! Even if I won all that, I wouldn't know what to do with it! Other winners of the sweepstakes get quite a doozy too.

Most Xbox 360 owners are pretty pumped up for the New Xbox Experience. Microsoft knows this, and so they've come up with a way to let a few thousand Xbox 360 fans get a sneak preview of the dashboard overhaul.

Instead of directly answering whether or not the rumored November release date for the New Xbox Live Experience is true, Microsoft instead side-stepped and said that it will have a global release before the end of the year. Well there are only three months left to it, so it goes that it will be released on November. Give or take a month. More after the link.

Looks like we don't have to wait all that long for the New Xbox Experience after all. A new dashboard ad for an upcoming Rock Band 2 event has revealed that the service will go live this November. Don't know how reliable the info is since it's not an official Microsoft announcement, but you can cross your fingers.

Everyone's abuzz and excited on the upcoming DLC exclusive for GTA IV (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) on the Xbox 360. But after confirming that it will indeed be coming out this fall, Microsoft has stayed mum on the matter. So what could possibly be in it? Rumors on that, as well as on the upcoming dashboard update after the jump.

It's Double Exp weekend for Halo 3's Legendary Brawl this, uh, weekend! The event will last until Monday, the 11th, at 2 a.m. PDT. More details in the full article.

Heads up, Xbox 360 fans. A new mandatory system update for your Microsoft console has just gone live. It's not the new Xbox experience Microsoft's been harping about just yet, but it does pave the way for the much-awaited Fall dashboard update. More in the full article.

Yes, Games for Windows Live will be losing its subscription fees, but Microsoft will still charge users for an Xbox Live Gold subscription. This was confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson recently to MCV UK. More in the full article.