Tomorrow is the 19th and if you are an xBox fan you should know whats coming, if you don’t I will tell you. The New xBox Experience (NXE) should be hitting your box at some point tomorrow and there are going to be some great new features.

Now you can have avatars

First of all you now can have your own avatar, much like on the Nintendo Wii you can now have a visual representation of yourself that isn’t a gamer picture. A lot of people have said they don’t like this idea but I think it’s quite cool. Hopefully the developers will come up with achievement related clothing (like a special t-shirt for get “seriously”) but we will have to wait and see.

Possibly my favourite new feature will be installing games on to your hard drive. I’ve got a brand new elite so I have plenty of room to put games on. The games range form 4-6.8gb so I can easily get 15 games on my machine though I doubt I will put that many games on there. It will make everything much quieter and in some cases quicker. If you only have a 20gb hard drive you should check this out.

As I write this xbox.com is down for maintenance whilst they prepare for the NXE, but what do they have in store? Well, as the screenshot suggests you will now be able to purchase points and DLC plus grab hold of the latest demos. When you get back from the office turn your xBox and the downloads will start, sweet!

The marketplace on the xBox has also been improved as has the whole dashboard experience, based on reports from the lucky people who got on the preview, it’s meant to be a lot quicker though still not perfect.

I’m excited about tomorrow (I’ll have Gears 2 as well) but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a lot of problems over the next week, but we’ll have to wait and see…