Unique NXE Avatar URLs discovered

Posted Oct 21st 2008 12:45PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News

An anonymous tipster has informed Xbox 360 Fanboy that Avatars -- the cute, customizable user characters that will launch with the New Xbox Experience -- will each have their own unique URL (which won't open in Firefox or Safari, by the way). The URLs in question lead to PNG files of a users Avatar. The URLs lead to images of at least three sizes, as demonstrated in the image above. The Avatars belong to Microsoft's Trixie and Chris Paladino by the way (we tried plugging in one of our own gamertags and were greeted with nothing but the original Xbox logo). There is a full body image along with two smaller images of user created Avatar Gamerpics. All of them are stored at the site avatar.xboxlive.com, which currently leads to a blank page. Will these images be part of a broader social networking platform? For now, we'll just have to wait until Microsoft decides to share more about the NXE.

Tags: avatar, avatars, new-xbox-experience, nxe

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

10-21-2008 @ 12:49PM

Patrick said...

I wonder if I'll be able to use my avatar as my Facebook picture.

10-21-2008 @ 1:05PM

Maverick Saturn said...

Don't see why not, Micro owns some shares over there, don't why they wouldn't discuss it, but then I also don't see the point :S Whats wrong with your regular pic, lol

10-21-2008 @ 2:02PM

Deezul said...

I made my RB2 avatar my Facebook avatar. It's as close as RB will let you get, and I have the clothing items I'm "wearing."

10-21-2008 @ 12:50PM

grigdog said...

Major Nelson too
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/major%20nelson/avatar-body.png

10-21-2008 @ 1:15PM

Fallen Heero said...

Major Nelson's looks nothing like him, It needs more grey hair...
The actual thing is actually interesting and i guess its a way to show off your avatar and probably use it in a lot more places. I think they'll definately link it to live messenger as well. Persanally i dont care that much about them. I'll probably quickly create one and leave it for a while.

10-21-2008 @ 12:58PM

rTwelve said...

I'm guessing this is how the developer of the 1337pwn iPhone app is getting his avatar images (which has been since last week)

10-21-2008 @ 1:04PM

URPREY said...

e has one as well:

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/e/avatar-body.png

10-21-2008 @ 1:14PM

yolarrydabomb said...

hmm I though e never have the NXE

10-21-2008 @ 1:08PM

Studley said...

Actually, I quite like opening those in Firefox - it's like looking into a person's soul.

10-21-2008 @ 3:06PM

DBoyFlex said...

Actually, if you have the IE emulator add on, it will work in firefox. Take that MS.

10-21-2008 @ 10:20PM

guidedbyvoip said...

Not if you do, ya know...Mac.

10-22-2008 @ 6:43PM

ZenMN said...

Dudes, just right click and "save link as"

FF3+MAC FTW!

lawl

10-21-2008 @ 1:27PM

J said...

Nelson Rodriguez
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/don%20gorgon/avatar-body.png

10-21-2008 @ 1:27PM

J said...

Natalie Sousa
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/natalies/avatar-body.png

10-21-2008 @ 1:33PM

SAGExSDX said...

i was going to jump into the stalking fest of MS employees but J Allard doesn't have one =(

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/hiro%20protagonist/avatar-body.png

10-21-2008 @ 1:38PM

Chuck said...

Aaron Greenberg
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/bigvip/avatar-body.png

10-21-2008 @ 1:43PM

Dante said...

Trixie's avatar is cuter than she is, and it's a cartoon character.

10-21-2008 @ 2:07PM

trixie360 said...

thanks dude. I bet you look like Brad Pitt!! :)

10-21-2008 @ 2:06PM

Deezul said...

Not to be a hater, but at least Trixie properly showed her weight. Natalie Sousa is not as "skinny" as her avatar shows her.

10-22-2008 @ 12:53PM

B said...

Hahahaha
Please say that was a troll

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