[update] New Xbox Dashboard preview now avaiable


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Mathachew, you're treading on unstable ground posting that picture mate. That screenshot is confidential information which you agreed not to release to anybody not in the program when you signed the NDA.

hardly it's just a notification.

the dashboard isn't even downloaded yet at that point.

any one looking for a download dont bother this beta is useless with out the servers. so you cant play anything not multiplayer or the single player.

i played multiple matches of its horde mode and 2 sections of its campaign, unless they take the servers down off and on

they have taken the servers offline probaley to stop the leak i doubt they will come back up till the multiplayer demo. when you try and play singleplayer you get " you must be connected to EA network to play this demo"

they have taken the servers offline probley to stop the leak i doubt they will come back up till the multiplayer demo. when you try and play singleplayer you get " you must be connected to EA network to play this demo"

ahh, i didnt play long, felt to Gears Of Warish

hardly it's just a notification.

the dashboard isn't even downloaded yet at that point.

Try reading the agreement you signed up to... it says releasing information about "preview program materials", not just the dashboard update itself. The private mechanism for submitting your console information IS preview program materials, whether you like it or not :)

Now, whether Microsoft actually care about these kind of breaches is entirely a different question, but you won't find me risking it.

So is this going to be the most pointless preview program in history? Isn't the official release date about a week from now? Still no changes...

There is NO official release date. The last thing I read officially from Microsoft was that they were targeting (ie. date is not set in stone) the end of the year.

Oh and why would a EA + BioWare game beta "accidentally" end up being pushed with an update for dashboard? Surely it's a planned publicity stunt.

Because there's an internal beta of the new dashboard, and the Mass Effect 3 testing is being run on it. Possibly because it requires stuff in the new dashboard? I don't think it's that hard to imagine.

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