You must however register your interest / complete your profile by September 13th to be eligible

All you have is a safe deposit key, a mysterious tattoo, and a gun

So if you want to upgrade to Windows 11 and your hardware is capable, head over to Download Windows 11 on Microsoft and you can skip the wait and upgrade today.

Iriez and romracer from the Xbins team, along with CrunchBite, the X-Link Kai dev have managed to resurrect the forums over the last three years, recovering data from web scrapes by xboxexpert on Reddit, partial dumps and even from historical crawls from

At the moment anyone who is interested can register to play the Halo Infinite Multiplayer Preview on 24th September, all you need to do is signup via the Halo Insider Program.

To do this simply go to the Halo Insider Program Website and click signup under the become a Halo insider section.

I’m sure if you have had an interest in Xbox hacking and modding for long enough you will have heard of Xbox-Scene, even if you have never actually browsed the site. Historically in the early 2000’s Xbox-Scene was the centre of the Xbox homebrew and hacking scene.

I can only imagine how much work it was to get Xbox-Scene back up and running today as well as it is.

Do head over to Xbox-Scene to read more about the work behind brining the site back and more importantly to browse an important part of Xbox history.

Not many people are probably aware that Bill Gates wanted to embrace the modding community after been show the additional functionality the scene had added to the original Xbox.

This can be seen on the Xbox 360 with the media playback functionality built in to the dashboard, the integration with Windows Media Center and later in the consoles life the Indie games that could be developed on retail 360’s and published on the marketplace.

Even today this influence remains true with the ease of accessing dev mode on retail Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S consoles.

It seems crazy to me that the Xbox-Scene site started almost 20 years ago. where does time go? anyway enjoy the trip down memory lane.

An un-named developer who worked on the original Xbox has revealed that he hid an Easter egg in the Dashboard of the system software.

The developer stated: “I didn’t really expect it to be found, not unless the source code leaked or somebody reverse-engineered the Dashboard. Its trigger was the same as the ‘main’ Easter egg so I knew it was possible. I figured somebody would have to leak it for it to be known.”

1. Go into Music and insert an audio CD.
2. From the Audio CD screen choose Copy, again Copy, then New Soundtrack.
3. Delete the default soundtrack title and replace it with (no quotes) “Timmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!” (That’s the letter “y” 26 times. Or you can just fill the entire field and replace the last one with a “!”.)
4. Wait for the contents to copy to the internal HDD. When the task completes, go back to the main menu.
5. Navigate to Settings and then System Info.
6. You should now see the new hidden screen listing members of the Xbox Dashboard Team – Victor Blanco, Sakphong Chanbai, Bradford Christian and Jim Helm.

Its nice to see the original Xbox still held a secret 20 years after release, despite been one of the most hacked consoles ever.

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