Xbox Gaming in South Africa

Major Nelson has announced that two minor updates will be dropping this week, the first of which will be going out over Xbox LIVE today.

Xbox LIVE Dashboard update:

On Wednesday, January 19th we will issue a mandatory dashboard update that (re) enables the ‘Boot to Disc’ option in the Xbox 360 dashboard. After you accept the update, you’ll be able to set the option to boot to the Xbox 360 dashboard OR directly to the game you have in the tray when you power up your console. This option can be found in the System Settings.

Xbox.com update:

Additionally, on Thursday January 20th the Xbox.com team will ship an update that contains a small update to the Gamercards. We’ve updated the Gamercard look and feel a bit and removed gamerzone from the card. Other than that, the same amount of information is on the card:

I've always wondered what the point of those gamerzones are supposed to be. Other than a friend request filter, anyway. What, I'm the only person who declined "Pros" on principle?

Update: The following files can be used to update your Xbox 360 without Xbox LIVE: USB Update (95 MB) | CD Update (95 MB). More information can be found here.