Unique NXE Avatar URLs discovered

by Richard Mitchell { Oct 21st 2008 at 12:45PM }

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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Patrick @ Oct 21st 2008 12:49PM

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

Maverick Saturn @ Oct 21st 2008 1:05PM

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

Deezul @ Oct 21st 2008 2:02PM

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."

DBoyFlex @ Nov 15th 2008 7:30PM

Yes you can. There is an app called xbox 360 live gamercard and you can use it to get your current avatar, and it saves it in a separate avatar folder, so each avatar you make you can save there. You can then easily set it as your profile picture.

Eric @ Nov 20th 2008 2:09PM

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatar-body.png replace gamertag with your own. It works in firefox since thats what i did it in and i already have mine as my myspace pic...nerdy but o well

grigdog @ Oct 21st 2008 12:50PM

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

Fallen Heero @ Oct 21st 2008 1:15PM

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.

rTwelve @ Oct 21st 2008 12:58PM

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

URPREY @ Oct 21st 2008 1:04PM

e has one as well:

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

yolarrydabomb @ Oct 21st 2008 1:14PM

hmm I though e never have the NXE

Studley @ Oct 21st 2008 1:08PM

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

DBoyFlex @ Oct 21st 2008 3:06PM

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

guidedbyvoip @ Oct 21st 2008 10:20PM

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

ZenMN @ Oct 22nd 2008 6:43PM

Dudes, just right click and "save link as"

FF3+MAC FTW!

lawl

J @ Oct 21st 2008 1:27PM

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

J @ Oct 21st 2008 1:27PM

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

SAGExSDX @ Oct 21st 2008 1:33PM

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

TheBard @ Oct 21st 2008 2:00PM

Boris Schneider-Johne, Xbox Big Boss Germany, has one, too: http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/kugelblitz/avatar-body.png

Richard Mitchell @ Oct 21st 2008 2:18PM

BORIS!

I heart Boris.

Chuck @ Oct 21st 2008 1:38PM

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

Dante @ Oct 21st 2008 1:43PM

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

trixie360 @ Oct 21st 2008 2:07PM

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

Deezul @ Oct 21st 2008 2:06PM

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

B @ Oct 22nd 2008 12:53PM

Hahahaha
Please say that was a troll

Banzaiaap @ Oct 21st 2008 1:46PM

Heh, it doesn't work in Google Chrome either.

Extant @ Oct 21st 2008 1:51PM

Yeah, it looks like they aren't sending the mime-type to the browser, so it tries to open the file as text. But, if you save the page as a png, you can open it from your computer.

ZaaM IT @ Oct 21st 2008 2:00PM

stepto :)
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/stepto/avatar-body.png

maddox @ Oct 21st 2008 2:02PM

They ARE sending the mime type, but its wrong. Cause MS can't do anything right or standard it seems:

Content-Type: text/html

Deezul @ Oct 21st 2008 2:05PM

Within hours of the NXE update going live; we'll see weblog icons changed, I'm sure. I'll be updating mine. Bye Buzz!

Rufus @ Oct 21st 2008 2:51PM

It doesn't work in Firefox, or Safari? Well I guess I won't be checking them much...

I don't think exclusivity to crappy IE is anyway to help propagate the general fanbase, especially when a good majority of us are tech-savvy and know FF or even Safari are far superior.

Massimo @ Oct 22nd 2008 4:01AM

Firefox & Safari do not save the png's properly because the server sends the data as HTML. Could be a wrong server setup...

B @ Oct 22nd 2008 12:53PM

Right Click -> Save link as...
or
IE Tab extension for Firefox

bitchain @ Oct 21st 2008 2:56PM

oh, oh, oh ... that's neat, me like.

Lee @ Oct 21st 2008 2:57PM

wait, they made something that DOESN'T work in firefox or safari?!

isn't it usually the other way around?

Ghen @ Oct 22nd 2008 4:23PM

Microsoft routinely breaks other browsers because they insist on only using active-x and only testing stuff like this on IE before release.

Most every website in the world that isn't microsoft works better in Firefox and probably safari as well.

OptimumEDGE @ Oct 21st 2008 3:07PM

Guys the website isn't even up and you're complaining about it not working properly? Seriously?

This is pretty awesome. It'll be cool to have access to your avatar image for use elsewhere on the web, sweet stuff. The Xbox Team really is thinking of everything.

Also if anyone is really curious, just save the jumbled up text (binary shizzle) as a ".PNG" and the image will show up for your viewing pleasure.