July 28, 2008 12:13 PM PDT

User shows how to access leaked Xbox Live dashboard

by Daniel Terdiman
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The forthcoming Xbox Live dashboard redesign, which Microsoft showed at E3 in Los Angeles earlier this month. A user has posted a blog entry in which he has video explaining how to get access to newly-leaked versions of the dashboard.

(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News)

If you're a big Xbox Live fan and don't feel like waiting until this fall for the big redesign of the service that Microsoft has promised, there's apparently a way to play with a leaked version of it now.

That's the word from a blog called XHavok87, which this weekend posted an entry--complete with video--showing how to do it.

According to the blog, the so-called "Xbox Experience" dashboard, which is due out in the fall and was unveiled by Microsoft at its big-budget press conference at E3 in Los Angeles earlier this month, has found its way onto the Web. The blog's author claims to have figured out how to play with the new dashboard, and is happily giving instructions on how others can do it, too.

To be sure, this doesn't sound like something that every Xbox Live user would be capable of. But if you're somewhat tech-savvy and don't have problems messing around with code, various Xbox security checks, burning CDs, and things like that, XHavok87's hack might just work for you.

Rather than trying to re-create the instructions here, I'll just say that the XHavok87 blog entry has them with a high degree of detail. I can't vouch for the efficacy of the instructions, having not tried them myself.

But the video that goes with the blog post does seem to speak for itself. And so, if this is all true, it would really be interesting to know what the good folks over at Xbox Live and Microsoft in general are saying right now as their big fall reveal seems to have made its way into the hands of users already.

Daniel Terdiman is a staff writer at CNET News covering games, Net culture, and everything in between. E-mail Daniel.
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by Raziel66 July 28, 2008 3:39 PM PDT
He didn't do anything in the video. Why not find a video where somebody gets it to work? He did nothing but fail...
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by doneflop July 28, 2008 4:52 PM PDT
**** that i like the old one better.
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by zcollvee July 29, 2008 2:11 AM PDT
this looks cool
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by BTJustice July 29, 2008 11:12 AM PDT
This mod may get you banned from XBOX Live for life.
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by baggyguy1218 July 29, 2008 11:30 AM PDT
RETARDED! I do not know why, WHY cnet has posted this. I feel like I was tricked into reading the whole article and watching the video of this guy NOT DOING ANYTHING!
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by manualfunky July 30, 2008 1:38 AM PDT
awww... you poor geek... got tricked into reading a WHOLE article....

did you idiots not notice the guy say "try to install"

go cry into your mousepads
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by modemman11 August 2, 2008 8:51 AM PDT
Why the hell do we need to advertise this? The update is free and coming out sometime this fall. I don't see why people would be so damn impatient to get a BETA and UNFINISHED version of something that is riddled with BUGS and GLITCHES. I'd much rather wait until fall and get the FINAL version the correct way.

Besides, both the blog link and youtube video don't even exist anymore.
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by TuxedoBond August 2, 2008 1:02 PM PDT
The final version will probably be riddled with glitches as well. It's almost a Microsoft tradition for their updates.
by modemman11 August 2, 2008 10:49 PM PDT
All the previous dashboards didn't have any glitches. Where are you getting that information from? Please tell me some glitches with past dashboards.
by crazycrusherx August 2, 2008 6:15 PM PDT
This is stupid. I bet as soon as they unveiled this people said what were they thinking.
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