NXE game installs

The Monkey — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:49:14 +0000

So with NXE came the opportunity to install games from the disc to the Hard Drive, making for a much quieter, and in most cases faster, gaming experience. But with limited space, how do you know what to install to maximise your hard drive space? Well fortunately help is at hand. Those clever people over at Kotaku have posted a list of the install footprints of a lot of games that are currently available. Head over to the list here, but to give you a taster, a few of the games I’m currently playing weigh in at the following:

Fable 2 – 6.8 GB
Banjo & Kazooie, Nuts and Bolts – 6.6 GB
Left 4 Dead – 5.0 GB
Midnight Club LA – 6.0 GB
Fallout 3 – 5.9 GB

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The Monkey — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:45:31 +0000

So NXE has been launched on the waiting world, and it seems to have gone pretty smoothly. Sure it’s not perfect (there have been some teething problems), but it’s pretty good. As for me, I have downloaded the NXE update, and was very impressed at the speed at which it came down and installed itself. I’ve even watched the intro video twice! (sad I know).

One thing I’ve not done yet is to set up my avatar. However those smart people over at Microsoft have already published details of how you can use your avatar outside of your XBox, and have provided a handy URL to get a png version of your in-game personage. If you browse across to

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar//avatar-body.png

then a lovely png image of your avatar will be displayed for you. Once I’ve set mine up I’ll add him to this post…

Update: So here I am, in avatar form….

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NXE game installs

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