E3: Microsoft

Well it's finally that time of year for E3, the formerly Electronic Entertainment Expo known as the E3 Media and Business Summit.

Today is Microsoft's day, unveiling tons of new stuff for the 360. Here are some personal surprises and things I'm really looking forward to now.

• Rock Band 2 gets 80 tracks, 20 free future songs. Rock Band 1 content can be transferred for "under $5" (should be for free, IMO).
• Xbox Live gets avatars (Microsoft's version of Nintendo Miis) and new Dashboard redesign/overhaul, group chats.
• Portal: Still Alive internet game coming to XBox Live Arcade.
• Neflix downloads coming "at no additional cost"
• Resident Evil 5 pushed back to March. Booo.

They mentioned a bunch of other stuff, but I'm not Kotaku.com or Joystiq. I only write about stuff that interests me.

UPDATE: Here's some more info on that Dashboard update this fall. They're also allowing you to copy games to the harddrive to play without spinning up the loud disk drive, Live Marketplace content can be browsed from the web and waiting for you when you get home and launching games from the Guide button on the controller.