Tag: xbox one
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Xbox Scorpio Tech Details
Eurogamer’s Richard Leadbetter has technical details of Microsoft’s goofy Project Scorpio. Unless Microsoft adds or changes something significant about the functionality of the console before it is launched, it just means a more expensive and more technically powerful Xbox console: Combining smart design with sheer horsepower, Project Scorpio hits the six-teraflop target set for it as E3 last year,…
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Xbox Game Pass Announced
Microsoft recently announced their Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Most people are comparing it to a Netflix for games, it’s not a bad comparison excepting that while Netflix streams, the games with Microsoft’s service will download to an Xbox One. The selection of games available will be pretty small, “over 100” when the service becomes…
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Xbox One S: The Upgrade Nobody Should Buy
Daniel Perez hasn’t given a final verdict yet, but has a review in-progress of the new Xbox One S that is out today: When the original Xbox One was revealed, there was quite the uproar as to its size and design. Microsoft didn’t change the overall shape of the Xbox One S, but what it did change makes…
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Xbox One Backwards Compatibility
The four most interesting announcements at the Xbox E3 press conference were the Hololens demo with Minecraft, Microsoft’s new Early Access-esque program for the Xbox One called Game Preview, and Xbox 360 backwards compatibility. The fourth most interesting announcement was a lack of any Call of Duty exclusivity. That torch was passed to the Playstation…
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Dongler
The Xbox One controller is getting an update. It’ll have a 3.5mm headset jack and better bumpers. More importantly, Microsoft is finally going to release the wireless dongle for computers to accept connections from XBone controllers. Previously you could connect it with a USB cable, it’ll be good to stop using the one from my Steam Controller.…