Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is back online, and with it comes some new features. While there is no dashboard upgrade (which was confirmed to be the case earlier,) there are some changes on Xbox.com. So, gamers with Xbox Live still don’t have the ability to download in the background, but now Gold members can send and receive text messages on the Xbox.com community site. Silver members can receive messages, and block messages, but not send. Voice messaging is not yet supported. Gamers without Xbox Live accounts can see some screen shots of the new interface in Major Nelson’s Flickr account.

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