Xbox One Console Reviews
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starting the download for The Taken King in a few hours..probably might be the only board member playing 
starting the download for The Taken King in a few hours..probably might be the only board member playing
I got it
How far along are you..
I didn't start yet
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and Crysis 3 are now free for Xbox Live Gold members. Both titles are available through the Games with Gold program on Xbox One and Xbox 360. Both of these titles are phenomenal and received positive reviews when they released. I personally can't wait to play Crysis 3 because I never finished the trilogy.
Crysis 3
Players take on the role of Prophet as he returns to New York in 2047, 24 years after the events of Crysis 2. He discovers the city has been encased in a giant Nanodome created by the corrupt CELL corporation. The New York City Liberty Dome is a veritable urban rainforest teeming with overgrown trees, dense swamplands and raging rivers. Within the Liberty Dome, seven distinct and treacherous environments become known as the Seven Wonders. Prophet is said to be on a revenge mission after uncovering the truth behind CELL's motives for building the quarantined Nanodomes.
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
The cinematic action-adventure that forced Lara Croft to grow from an inexperienced young woman into a hardened survivor has been re-built for next-gen consoles, featuring an obsessively detailed Lara and a stunningly lifelike world. Lara must endure high-octane combat, customize her weapons and gear, and overcome gruelling environments to survive her first adventure and uncover the island’s deadly secret. The Definitive Edition of the critically-acclaimed action-adventure includes bonus content and combines all of the downloadable content from the Xbox 360 version.
Here are this week’s games and add-on deals on the Xbox Games Store. Discounts are valid now through 21 September 2015.
Xbox One Deals
<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Content Title</th> <th>Content Type</th> <th>Discount</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Forza Horizon 2: Storm Island</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Grand Theft Auto V</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>20%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Grand Theft Auto V + Great White Shark Cash Card</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>33%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited Imperial Edition</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>33%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited Premium Edition</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>33%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Trials Fusion: The Awesome Max Edition</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>40%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Warframe: 75 Platinum*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Warframe: 170 Platinum*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Warframe: 370 Platinum*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Warframe: 1000 Platinum + Rare Mod*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Warframe: 2100 Platinum + Dual Rare Mods*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Warframe: 3210 Platinum + Triple Rare Mods*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jet Car Stunts*</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Unmechanical Extended*</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Please note: prices and availability are subject to change and may vary by region.
*These Deals with Gold offers are valid for Xbox Live Gold and Silver members.
Xbox 360 Deals
<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Content Title</th> <th>Content Type</th> <th>Discount</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Forza Horizon VIP Membership and Cars Pack</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>70%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Grand Theft Auto V</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>58%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Grand Theft Auto IV</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>75%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Grand Theft Auto San Andreas</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>75%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Darksiders*</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>80%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Darksiders II*</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>80%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Darksiders II Argul’s Tomb*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>70%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Darksiders II Death Rides Pack*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>70%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Darksiders II Season Pass*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>70%</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Please note: prices and availability are subject to change and may vary by region.
*These Deals with Gold offers are valid for Xbox Live Gold and Silver members.
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Rolling out to a subset of preview program members in waves starting this weekend is the first hands-on look at the new Xbox One experience. At its core, the new Xbox One interface is centered around making it quick and easy for you to access and discover what you want, when you want. Our focus for the completely redesigned dashboard is speed, ease of use, and—of course—fan feedback.
The team at Xbox had a packed summer sharing what’s coming to Xbox One at E3 2015 and gamescom 2015, along with contributing to the launch of the best version of Windows ever for gaming: Windows 10. Throughout the summer, droves of Xbox fans have logged in and provided excellent feedback on Xbox One updates and the Xbox app on Windows 10. Today, we’re excited to take another step forward in bringing our vision to life for a new Xbox One experience.
This entirely new user experience is a work-in-progress and will undergo rigorous updating and polishing with the help of our Xbox One preview members. Here’s a closer look at what’s coming slowly to select early preview members in the first wave over the next week:
A redesigned Home to help you truly jump in. While keeping the main section concentrated on your task at hand (say, getting back to playing Gears of War: Ultimate Edition), we’re introducing vertical scrolling and a rearranged interface to provide faster and easier access to your most-recently accessed games and apps. You can also easily share your achievements and clips with the Xbox Live community, see whether your friends are playing the same games, and enjoy one-click access to Game Hubs to get news and updates from the publishers themselves. Engaging socially on Xbox One just got a lot quicker.
Quickly jump to Pins and My Games and Apps. At the bottom of Home, you’ll have quick access to the games and apps that you have pinned. You can quickly jump between your pins and most recently played game by using the triggers on your controller. Right trigger will take you straight to your pins. A pull of the left trigger will take you back to your most recently played game or app.
A new guide for fast access to essentials. A new Guide lets you quickly access essentials with just one button press, and without leaving your game, to save time spent weaving in and out of apps. You can access the Guide from Home by pressing left or double tap the Xbox button on your controller to instantly overlay the Guide.
- Friends and Parties – See which of your friends are online, join their parties, or click a button to instantly start a party and then add friends to it.
- Notifications – Instead of having to go back to Home to launch the Notifications Center full screen, new notifications will show up directly in the Guide and be grouped to make them quicker and easier to navigate.
- Messages – Just like notifications, multiple messages from a given friend will be both quickly accessible from the guide and neatly grouped.
- Settings – Frequently-accessed settings like headset volume will be up-leveled in the settings section of the guide to make them quicker to get to in the guide while you are playing a game.
- Snap – You now access your snap apps from the guide. In addition, apps snap to the left instead of the right.
- Live TV – Keeping with our focus on speed, OneGuide’s TV listings come up instantly and in full-screen, showing more channels at once. We also added picture-in-picture mode for TV, so you can browse OneGuide without missing what’s happening in your show.
- Movies and TV shows – Explore more movies and TV shows with dedicated galleries, highlighting the best that Xbox has to offer from live TV and apps.
- App channels – Discover new things to watch through curated channels of streaming video from apps like Hulu and FOX NOW. Accessible from the dashboard and throughout OneGuide, app channels help you find what to watch faster.
- Four easy to access areas – Games, Movies and TV, Apps, and Music will have more real estate on the main Store page dedicated to surfacing top content to you.
- New vertical gallery view – Using Games as an example, the all-new vertical gallery view within each area affords more listings to be showcased at a glance and the listings themselves are optimized for easier browsing with intuitive categories like Featured Staff Picks, New Releases, Top Played, Top Rated, Coming Soon and Recommendations.
- Game Hubs – With more entry points throughout the new experience, the new Game Hubs provide similar content as the current Game Hubs but by changing the design we have improved discoverability and speed.
- Game DVR – You’ll now go to the Game DVR app, instead of the Upload app, to manage your clips and screenshots.
- Achievements – Your game progress can be viewed on your profile and you’ll find achievements in the Game Hub for each game. If you want to track achievement progress in real time while you are playing, you can do that by snapping the Achievement Tracker app.
The Xbox One Elite controller will launch Oct. 27, according to Microsoft's online store.
While the company has not yet officially confirmed the release date for the peripheral, retailers like GameStop are also listing the October date.
The wireless controller will cost $149.99 at launch. Microsoft first gave us our first look at it during E3, where it touted its customization and responsiveness.
A debut trailer for the controller showed off its new d-pad, more sensitive triggers, and overall redesigned look.
An Elite bundle containing both the controller and a Xbox One console with a 1TB solid state hard drive will go on sale on Nov. 3 for $499.
Also hitting stores Oct. 27: the next game in the Halo series, Halo 5: Guardians. One of the biggest games of the season for the publisher, Microsoft debuted a video earlier today showing off the updated multiplayer system in that game.
Earlier this month, the publisher also shared the game's opening cinematic.
I'm taking a chance and going thru w/ it since they're making the switch anyway in november...from what I read/understood you WILL lose your info if you decide to switch back to the old dashboard bcuz they have to restore it to the factory default in order to do so...so you should back up stuff I guess in case you decide you don't like it...all my dl'ed games/game saves are already on an external HD...I just use the XB1 HD for dl'ed apps...as of last nite my request to get the new dashboard was still pending so it might be a few days before I get it...I remember how long the pending status took just to gain membership into the program smh
they will walk you thru it and you can read what you getting into before you get into it...it's not until you hit 'confirm' that they will actually start the waiting period for you to dl the dashboard
Here are this week’s games and add-on deals on the Xbox Games Store. Discounts are valid now through 28 September 2015.
Xbox One Deals
<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Content Title</th> <th>Content Type</th> <th>Discount</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition*</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>25%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>DmC Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition*</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>40%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>67%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Payday 2: Crimewave Edition*</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>33%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alien: Isolation*</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>70%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alien: Isolation Season Pass*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Batman: Arkham Knight*</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Batman: Arkham Knight Premium Edition*</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Batman: Arkham Knight Season Pass*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>No Time To Explain*</td> <td>Xbox One Game</td> <td>33%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue Pack</td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: South Park Pinball</td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles Pack</td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force Pack</td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Star Wars Pinball: Heroes Within Pack</td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Star Wars Pinball Pack</td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Zen Classics Pack</td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Marvel Pinball Original Pack</td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Core Collection</td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition Proud Souls </td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>25%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition Lady & Trish Costume Pack </td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>25%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition 5 Blue Orbs </td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>25%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition Super Nero / Super Dante/Super Vergil </td> <td>Add-on</td> <td>25%</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Please note: prices and availability are subject to change and may vary by region.
*These Deals with Gold offers are valid for Xbox Live Gold members.
Xbox 360 Deals
<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Content Title</th> <th>Content Type</th> <th>Discount</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Crysis 3: The Lost Island*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>60%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Battlefield: Bad Company 2*</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>75%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>75%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Battlefield 3 Premium*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>60%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Battlefield 4 Premium*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>60%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>DmC Devil May Cry*</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>75%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>DmC Devil May Cry: Vergil’s Downfall*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Devil May Cry HD Collection*</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>75%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Devil May Cry 4*</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>75%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alien: Isolation*</td> <td>Games On Demand</td> <td>70%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alien: Isolation Season Pass*</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball Arcade – Season One Bundle</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball Arcade – Season Two Bundle</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue Pack</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: South Park Pinball</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles Pack</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force Pack</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Star Wars Pinball: Heroes Within Pack</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Star Wars Pinball Pack</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Zen Classics Pack</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Marvel Pinball Original Pack</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pinball FX2: Core Collection</td> <td>Add-On</td> <td>50%</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Please note: prices and availability are subject to change and may vary by region.
*These Deals with Gold offers are only valid for Xbox Live Gold members.
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IO Interactive needs a few more months to bulk out the new Hitman -- the studio has pushed the game's release date back from December 2015 to March 2016. The delay applies to all versions: PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam. Wherever and whenever you end up playing Hitman, it's going to be a slightly different experience for the series. IO Interactive and publisher Square Enix plan to release Hitman in chunks, starting with a large initial launch. Afterward, the game's remaining locations will be released over time. The new Hitman's tagline is, "Enter a world of assassination," which feeds into the idea of a constantly updated, evolving landscape.
"These few extra months will mean we can add more to the launch content of the game, more than we had originally planned, and then follow with a tighter frequency of updates, which ultimately will create a better game for everyone," IO Interactive writes on the Hitman blog. "And in the end, that's what we're all looking for." SOURCE: Hitman blog
The Xbox team regularly updates the Xbox One and Xbox 360 consoles and the Xbox App for Windows 10 with improvements often influenced by user feedback, but did you know you can also leave feedback and recommendations for the Xbox.com website? To suggest new ideas or vote on existing recommendations, visit the Xbox Feedback website focusing on Xbox.com.
Here are a couple of updates the Xbox.com engineering team recently added to the website based on user feedback.
Listen to Voice messages on Xbox.com: We’ve added support for voice message playback on the website.
Show demos in search results: We’ve added support to show demos in search results and purchase/redeem demo downloads.
Thanks again for all of the support. We truly appreciate those who take the time to provide us feedback and help us make the Xbox consoles, apps and website the best fan experience they can be.
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