I had a weekend of fun, bough gears of war and was going to rent one to boost my GS.

early Friday morning I was emailed, it was microsoft email stating that I will have NXE available to download to my box Nov14th 2PM PST...WOW! I signed up for this early access but when I got the email, well anyhow I downloaded it and updated my dashboard and I jumped on and made my avatar and snaped a pic.

There is good and the bad to deal with...

Pros: Party system is awsome lets a group jump from arcade game to gears of war or Call of Duty WaW couldnt be easier.

The guide button is still there with a few new features, everything works and its a little faster.

I loved the select games on my gamers list that had GS=0 and delete them! Thank you

Cons: Avatars are lacking in the customization(not as bad as when yo create Miis (Wii Avatar)

loading the game onto the hard drive takes up ALOT of space, each game is around 7-8GB, and you still need the disc in the console to play from HDD but it does speed things up when laoding screens come.

Xbox mic's don't work very well, theres a lot of interfierence, crackly noises when recording or sending messages, I hope this is fixed.

It was nice to be bale to have a look early, I like the new dashboard and though it still is little confusing to navagate, there are some new features that are great, thanks M$ you guys did something right!