Spore comes to the Nintendo DS on September 7th with Spore Creatures—make friends, dance with other creatures, and fight with your bio-powers!

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The Xbox 360 lets you manage tremendous amount of entertainment content—movies, games, themes, TV shows, music and more. The current dashboard wasn’t designed to handle that volume of entertainment options though.

This November, Xbox will introduce a new dashboard theme that’s better optimized for content and allow for a number of new features, including movie rentals from Netflix.

Microsoft announced a number of family-friendly updates to the Xbox 360 at this year’s E3 Media and Business Summit.

To date, Microsoft has focused on hardcore gamers but as more consoles like Wii, Playstation 3, and the Xbox 360 find their way into homes, the core audience is begining to shift towards casual players and family gamers.

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