The new Xbox Experience will allow you to log in to your account on a PC, and pre-purchase marketplace items. Once you do, as soon as you power on your XBox360 console, it will begin downloading and installing the items you purchased. (Thanks, Slinger)

Another bit of info in that Major Nelson Aaron Greenberg audio interview has come to light. Greenbarg totally dismisses the report that there is a Blu-Ray add on for the Xbox360 in the works. The latest report, from a few days ago, came directly from the supposed tech company commissioned to make the add on. Greenberg even goes so far as to say that Blu-Ray may be the next UMD, aka, dead format.

Aaron Greenberg, the MS director of product management, spoke with Major Nelson at TGS. He said he believes there has been a shift from the Playstation brand to the Xbox brand. Of course, he is biased, but with the latest ex-PS-exclusive franchise now on Xbox360 (Tekken), along with games like Final Fantasy XIII, this may be partially true. Major Nelson has the entire audio interview posted at his site.

Remember when MS told us that they would be de-listing many of the XBLA games that did not sell very well, in preparation for the OS upgrade? Well, now MS has revealed that the de-listing plan ahas been deferred, and may even be canceled altogether. For the same reason it was being done, believe it or not! MS claims that with the new, shiny, OS, they may sell more XBLA games, so they are leaving them on there for a while.

Sony's president of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, stated in an interview with Eurogamer that he does want Microsoft's Xbox360 to succeed in Japan. He says it will help push the concepts of HD gaming to the mass gamer. He would like both the PS3 and Xbox360 to sell well, in fact, in order to convince Japanese gamers that a more sophisticated take on games is preferable over the Wii, he says. The Wii is currently beating both consoles in Japan, with the PS3 and Xbox360 trading higher spots in the sales list, but always lagging behind Nintendo.

"Quite honestly, the real number being sold - we haven't seen real acceptance of the platform here in the Japanese market. The Nintendo Wii is still by far the biggest platform in Japan,"

Bungie has revealed that the upcoming Halo 3 Recon will be the last game in the Halo Trilogy series. Bungie is working on two other titles though, so they are keeping busy, but Recon is it for now for the Halo storyline. We think it is better to retire when you are on top anyway. Pull a Seinfeld, if you will.

"But I think when this project wraps up in a couple of months that will be the time when that team moves on to something else - part of that team will move on to something else and part of them will probably be absorbed into one of the other projects that are already on the way."

The date for the new OS Experience on the Xbox360 is November 19, 2008. The MS TGS 08 press conference revealed the date. Don't worry if you have purchased themes and other items to customize your current Xbox360 dashboard. According to MS, the themes and such will still work, they will just be displayed in a different, quasi-3D format.

Another bit of new from the Microsoft TGS press conference, 99 Nights 2 is going to be an XBox360 exclusive. No real surprise there, but we hope the game is tweaked a bit from the first one.

According to Xbit Labs, Microsoft is prepping an external Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox360 console. Unlike Toshiba, who is still anti-Blu-Ray, MS is adapting, it seems. It is rumored that the product will cost between $100-$150 USD, and the device will be manufactured by Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology Corp., a joint venture between Samsung Electronics and Toshiba Corp. Time will tell, but this is certainly a smart move by MS.

Downloadable content for the upcoming Fable II is going to be pretty substantial, it seems. According to comments made by Molyneux, they would be "pretty dumb" not to have DLC planned already. He also commented that it will be much more substantial than just some weapons and armor, and gamers will not have to wait months for it. Great news.

"Without any official announcements, I would say that we'd be pretty dumb not to plan it. What I would say, if we're going to do DLC then I definitely don't want it to be just a whole load of new weapons and armour. I just don't want it to be that. It needs to be something a bit more tangible and it would be nice if you didn't have to wait months and months for it as well."