ilmxbox360EliteHoliday2008Bundle Microsoft is making sure the Xbox 360 console gets noticed this holiday season. The company announced new holiday bundles for their Xbox 360 console systems. On the low end, there’s the Xbox 360 Arcade Holiday Bundle selling for $199. The new holiday bundle will feature six free games – SEGA Superstars Tennis and five Xbox LIVE Arcade games. The middle and high end Xbox 360 consoles, the Xbox 360 and the Xbox 360 Elite, will also have Holiday Bundles featuring two free games – the LEGO Indiana Jones : The Original Adventures and Kung Fu Panda.

Xbox Experience

Finally, the other big announcement for this past week involved the upcoming New Xbox Experience. Finally, we’ve got ourselves a launch date as Microsoft announced that the new Experience would be made available to all Xbox 360 owners worldwide on Wednesday November 19th. Just a little reminder, here are some of the features of the new Experience (quoted from the Xbox 360 press release)

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  • LIVE Parties: Xbox 360 is the only device that allows you to create a virtual party on your TV with up to seven friends. With LIVE Party, voice chat while you play games, share photos real-time, and entertain friends all over the world.
  • Personality plus: Create a customized, animated Avatar and literally jump into the world of Xbox LIVE. Your Avatar is your game-face throughout the New Xbox Experience and represents your personality—whether you’re a LIVE Party host or chatting with a friend. With custom Avatars created by the more than 14 million members worldwide, Xbox LIVE will have as many Avatars as Tokyo has residents.
  • On-demand entertainment: Xbox 360 is home to the best TV and movie entertainment, including more than 12,000 exclusive films and TV episodes from Netflix, and the world’s largest online library of on-demand high-definition TV shows, plus hit movies from partners like Warner Bros., Starz, NBC, CBS, Constantin, MGM, and Disney.
  • Games for the community, by the community: For the first time in the history of console gaming, thousands of games developed by the creative community will be available to the public. The Community Games channel on Xbox LIVE will include games made by students, hobbyists, and average Joes all around the world and will be exclusive to Xbox LIVE.

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Several sites have already published their first hand experiences with the New Xbox Experience. Here’s a sample listing:

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