Sony (or, more specifically, Eric Lempel of Sony America) have told CVG that there will be no NXE-type overhaul of the XMB in the future. His main reason is that the XMB is an Emmy Award winning interface - people like it.

The man makes sense, we like the XMB, too. See the quotes after the break.

This is what everyone has been waiting for, and at last we finally hear something about it. Earlier this morning, "CydoniaX" (Home Manager at Sony) posted a message on the Playstation.Blog that pretty much confirmed that we will receive: Voice Chat across games, XMB Voice messaging (30 sec clips) and HOME Game Launching for all games at some point down the line. His exact words were:

"All that stuff is still in development, game launching started with Warhawk and should be supported by all future game spaces now. It takes time, but we haven’t forgotten about all the stuff that our users really want!" Read more »

According to TSA, Pixeljunk's sublime (and damn hard) tower defence-style game Monsters will be getting a patch soon, which will include, but may not be limited to, trophies, XMB custom soundtracks and difficulty levels. If you've been waiting for a reason to play this again, or if you haven't even bought it yet, this is the perfect reason for either. Read more »

Well, well, well, Look what Devil found... A video of Ingame XMB altho, this user has some weird stuff on his playstation 3,

A new video for firmware 2.4 has been uncovered - showing the in-game XMB functions more clearly than ever before! Like everyone else in the sane world, we simply can't for the day to arrive when our PS3 tells us, quite politely, that new system software is ready for download - please, please let it be soon!

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