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- Stream video games from Xbox to Discord.
- Variable refresh charge (VRR) replace for Xbox Sequence X|S consoles.
- New locations to view and redeem Rewards and rather more.
We right here at Staff Xbox are persevering with to make Xbox higher, refining our experiences and delivering brand-new options primarily based in your suggestions. This replace is bringing you the extremely requested capability to stream your Xbox gameplay to your Discord mates! Moreover, we’re updating the variable refresh charge for Xbox Sequence X|S consoles, providing you with new locations to view and redeem Rewards, and offering new want record notifications to trace your video games. We’re persevering with our dedication to security on our platform by rolling out Xbox voice reporting, which lets you report inappropriate in-game voice chat. On PC, we have now some nice updates that help you simply navigate your library and observe the countdown to a sport launch. Which jogs my memory… only one day till the Starfield launch!
Stream your video games out of your Xbox to your Discord mates
We heard that you simply wished extra Discord options! Beginning this week, you possibly can stream gameplay immediately out of your Xbox to your Discord mates. With a easy click on on “Stream your sport,” your Discord mates can now watch as you play your favourite console video games.
To get began, first hyperlink your Discord account. Then you possibly can be a part of voice channels out of your Discord servers immediately out of your Xbox console. To navigate there, press the Xbox button in your controller to open the information, scroll to Events & chats, and choose Discord. Then scroll via your out there Discord servers, leap right into a voice channel with mates, and share your gameplay!!
This function is out simply in time for Starfield! Share as you make your customized character, uncover new planets, construct some superb ships, and uncover all there’s in Bethesda’s superb new universe. You’ll want to be a part of the official Bethesda Discord channel to remain updated on the Starfield launch and extra!
Whether or not you might be planning to stream Starfield or any of your different favourite video games, it’s straightforward to get began and have enjoyable with your folks cheering you on.
Variable Refresh Charge (VRR) replace for Xbox Sequence X|S consoles
Variable Refresh Charge (VRR) permits your TV or monitor to dynamically alter its refresh charge primarily based on the body charge of the content material you’re viewing to present you a clean, artifact-free expertise when you sport. Nevertheless, should you’re utilizing your Xbox Sequence X|S for leisure experiences, it’s possible you’ll not all the time need VRR enabled.
Beginning this week, you possibly can select the way you need VRR enabled in your Xbox Sequence X or Sequence S console. To pick out your choice, go to Normal > TV & show choices > Video,after which go to the dropdown menu for VRR. You’ll be able to choose if you need VRR to be “At all times On,” “Gaming Solely,” or “Off.”
New locations to view and redeem Rewards
Rewards are actually simpler to search out in your Xbox with the brand new Rewards tab. You’ll be able to leap to them shortly by urgent the Xbox button to open the information, selecting Profile & system, choosing your profile, after which selecting My Rewards, the place you’ll discover your Xbox Sport Go Quests.
Moreover, now you can discover the Redeem Rewards catalog immediately from the Rewards tab in your profile. To test it out, open the information and go to Profile & system > your profile > My Rewards.
Ask to affix your good friend’s gaming session
Wish to test if there’s room in your good friend’s gaming session earlier than becoming a member of the get together? Now you possibly can go over to your good friend’s profile and choose the ‘Ask to affix sport’ choice.
Your good friend will obtain a notification of your request to affix, and so they can reply again to you with a sport invite, a celebration invite, or a message.
Xbox voice reporting – help a safer neighborhood for all Xbox gamers
In July we introduced platform-wide voice reporting to present gamers the choice to seize and report inappropriate in-game voice chats. Voice reporting equips Xbox Sequence X|S and Xbox One gamers with the power to seize a 60-second video clip of an in-game voice incident that they imagine violates Xbox Neighborhood Requirements and submit it as proof to the Xbox Security Staff for assessment.
This function is purpose-built to help the wide range of in-game interactions between gamers and works throughout 1000’s of video games that provide in-game multiplayer voice chat, together with Xbox 360 backward appropriate titles. Voice reporting is accessible beginning this week to Xbox console gamers in choose English-language markets (U.S., UK, Canada, Eire, Australia, and New Zealand).
New want record notifications – Microsoft Retailer on Xbox
Getting updates in your want record is getting simpler. Wish to be the primary to get the sport when it’s out there? Now you may get a notification when your want record video games go from pre-order to launch, and when your want record video games enter Sport Go.
The brand new want record notifications will present up within the information and as a pop-up to let you recognize when your want record video games can be found. In Settings > Preferences > Retailer notifications, you possibly can determine if you wish to see notifications within the information, when your want record gadgets are launched, when they’re out there with Sport Go, and extra.
Simply pair new equipment to your Xbox console
Now you can simply pair new equipment to your Xbox console with out having to maneuver out of your sofa to push your Xbox console’s Pair button. To get began, open the Xbox Equipment app, and use the brand new “Join a Machine” choice.
PC Gaming | Xbox app on PC expertise updates
We simply up to date the Xbox app on PC with new options, sooner efficiency, and celebrations for upcoming video games. There are additionally enhancements to sport particulars web page load occasions so you may get to the set up button even sooner, along with new fonts, button types, and animations throughout the app. You’ll additionally see updates in your Library and Set up queue, together with filters for Put in, Owned, and In Sport Go, as a way to shortly discover your favourite video games. Different updates to the Xbox app on PC embrace a collapsible Play Later record, whereas the Set up queue now has a consolidated settings menu to make it even simpler to handle your most popular set up drive, computerized updates, and extra.
The sport launch countdown is again so you possibly can observe a sport’s launch to the minute – no extra guessing! Yow will discover the countdown on a sport’s particulars web page earlier than it releases.
Are you prepared to leap into Starfield? The Xbox app’s launch display screen has a brand new Starfield-inspired key artwork to have a good time Bethesda’s first new universe in 25 years.
You’ll be able to go to the official Xbox app on PC help website right here to see an inventory of all of the adjustments included on this launch.
Assist form the way forward for Xbox
Keep tuned to Xbox Wire for future updates and all the newest and best Xbox associated information. For help associated to Xbox updates, go to the official Xbox Help website.
We love listening to from the neighborhood, whether or not you’ve a suggestion for a brand new function that you simply’d prefer to see added, otherwise you wish to give suggestions on current options that would use some enchancment. From sport seize and share enhancements, to serving to video games load sooner, new methods to attach along with your gaming neighborhood, and a lot extra, we’re all the time listening and in search of methods to enhance Xbox experiences for gamers world wide. For those who’d like to assist create the way forward for Xbox and get early entry to new options, obtain the Xbox Insider Hub in your Xbox Sequence X|S, Xbox One, or Home windows PC at this time. Tell us what you suppose!