Here are a couple interesting takeaways from our tour of the New Xbox Experience:

• "There's nothing to announce" right now regarding a keyword search for the Marketplace. Let's hope they either a) add one in or b) drastically improve how we find things
• Playing games from the hard drive will work fine for multi-disc games; in fact, you can pick which discs you want to rip (for example, we're superstitious and we'd only rip odd-numbered discs).
• As an example, we were told that Devil May Cry 4 is approximately a 4 or 5GB installation and took about ten minutes.
• You'll need to keep the disc in the drive the entire time. This is about speeding up load times (and hey, bonus tip: no more noisy DVD drive while you're playing!)
• The alerts look the same – actually, like the entire interface, they look sharper, cleaner. Oh, and the sound is the same.
• Yes, you can still use your gamertag pics and your themes (in fact, they look a lot better now!)

Gallery: New Xbox Experience

Yup. Ima make my Avatar look like Hitler.

I was wondering about the multidisc games. Sounds like things are moving along.

Still no larger friendslist =[

the avatar thing is pretty lame imo. overall it looks alright and the features are pretty cool.

It's sort of gay that I don't have an option to keep my old setup you know? My old avatars i bought, themes, and jiggamabobs are all gone, and replaced with a Mii and the refund certificates. But what the hell, change for the better yeah?