Summer has officially arrived and we’re giving you plenty of reasons to stay inside with four exciting games coming to Games with Gold in July. For Xbox One, the open-world adventure game Grow Up will be available July 1 – 31, followed by the innovative (and colorful) racing game Runbow from July 16 to August 15. We’ll also have a couple of throwbacks to the Xbox 360 era thanks to Backward Compatibility. Step into the shoes of disillusioned and desperate criminals in Kane & Lynch 2 starting July 1 – 15, and then get ready for a swashbuckling adventure in LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game from July 16 – 30.
All games will be available for a limited time only as part of Games with Gold, so get Xbox Live Gold today to get in on the action!
• Grow Up ($9.99): Available July 1-30 on Xbox One
• Runbow ($14.99): Available July 16-Aug 15 on Xbox One
• Kane & Lynch 2 ($14.99): Available July 1-15 on Xbox 360 & Xbox One
• LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game ($19.99): Available July 16-30 on Xbox 360 & Xbox One
Grow Up
Living the life of a B.U.D. (Botanical Utility Droid) can be tough. Especially when your spaceship breaks into pieces and scatters across a planet filled with amazing plants and wondrous structures! As B.U.D., along with your friend P.O.D., you’ll traverse this open world and recover parts of your ship. Fly, climb, bounce, roll and complete challenges along the way in this wibbly wobbly fun adventure.
Runbow
A fast-paced party action game with a never before seen color mechanic. Up to nine players can race against each other locally or online as platforms and obstacles appear and disappear when the colored background changes. Go head-to-head in one of Runbow’s modes, including Arena, King of the Hill, ColourMaster, and The Bowhemoth.
Kane & Lynch 2
Play as two violent and disturbing criminals in the action shooter Kane & Lynch 2. Lynch, the psychopath, has his sanity on the edge at all times and Kane, the ex-mercenary, is disillusioned and desperate. Play as both in an epic single-player story driven campaign, or team up with a friend over Xbox Live.
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
Time for a swashbuckling adventure in LEGO form. Play as characters from the classic film series, each with their own personalities and abilities, and join your friends in co-op play! The wide-open seas are full of bricks for the plundering in LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game.
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Fable Fortune Released on Xbox Game Preview and Steam Early Access
Fable Fortune has flown the coop and is out now on Xbox One and PC!
Co-developers Flaming Fowl Studios and Mediatonic are dead chuffed to announce today that Fable Fortune is out now on Xbox One and Windows 10 Game Preview, and on Steam Early Access!
Fable Fortune takes pioneering card game mechanics and combines it with Fable’s most cherished moments. Choose from one of six Heroes each sporting diverse powers and cards, and set forth to crush your opponents under a hobbe-nailed boot in either classic PVP mode, or the fully integrated Co-op mode. Discover how the iconic Alignment mechanic can be used to shift heroes towards a good or evil path during play; transforming their powers, altering their card effects, and turning the tide of battle in one chicken-kicking hand.
“Fable Fortune has been real labour of love for the studio. We’ve built several card games and are huge fans of the genre. Our core goal with the design of Fable Fortune has been to create a game based around choice and consequence, with a deep level of strategy.” Said Founder of Mediatonic, Paul Croft, “We’re entering Early Access / Game Preview because we’re keen to grow and evolve the game with the community’s input. We’re aiming to become one of the best games in the genre.”
Fable Fortune is a project that has been dealt a few bad hands, however having picked up the torch from Lionhead, Flaming Fowl and Mediatonic have worked closely to keep the magic of Fable alive with this fast-paced and fun collectable card game.
Featuring timeless heroes, despicable villains, armies of bemused (and conveniently expendable) peasants, and some good old fashioned, family-friendly necromancy, Fable fans will not be disappointed.
“It’s fantastic to hear players say they have “returned to Albion” when they play.” Said Craig Oman, CEO of Flaming Fowl Studios, “Everything from the environments to the music to the characters, it just feels like home to us! This may not be an RPG but we feel like we have succeeded in making a true Fable game and we are really excited to see where we can take this during Early access and beyond.”
Fans can gain early access to Fable Fortune by picking up the Founder's pack for $14.99 Containing over $40 worth of ingame items including 20 packs of cards to open, the exclusive Flaming Fowl Trophy Card and the very rare (You might even say ‘Fabled’) Giant Egg card. There are plans to continue developing Fable Fortune for many years to come and to make it Free to Play later in 2017.
Purchasing the Founder’s Pack is the best way fans can support this development whilst also gaining some amazing rewards and the undying gratitude of the developers.
First Look at the Latest Xbox One Dashboard Update
Latest Xbox Update Releases to Insiders Starting Today
It’s an exciting day at Team Xbox as Xbox Insiders in the Alpha Ring will get a first look at the latest Xbox update. This release is the next major update for gaming on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC, and is designed to make the Xbox gaming experience more fun, personalized, and social than ever. We’ve heard feedback from our fans that they want the ability to customize Home the way they want. This new experience on Xbox One gives gamers more choice and delivers fun faster. Updates to Home, Guide and Community are available today, with updates to Avatars, Game Hubs, Profiles and more coming this fall. Windows 10 PCs will also receive updates to the Game bar and Gaming settings menu. Here’s a detailed look at some of the new features that will arrive for Xbox Insiders starting today and continuing throughout the next few months:
Customize Your Home: The first thing Insiders will notice is the new Home on Xbox One. This update is all about personalization; we’re putting the control in your hands, so that you can decide what to see when you turn on your console. The new look and feel is part of a design system called Microsoft Fluent Design; the look, feel, and movement of the dashboard has been updated to focus on speed, customization and expression—for you. Now, customize your Home screen to be uniquely yours, and view all the things you love at-a-glance. Have a favorite game or friend? Add them to Home! Select one, press the Menu button on your controller, and select “Add to Home.” This now creates an entire block of content that can be moved up or down—or removed altogether, should your interests or habits change. These blocks will evolve over time based on the things you like to do. For example, adding a game to your Home screen may pull in an Activity Feed post from the developer, show when your friends are playing that game online, suggest your next Achievement, and provide a quick shortcut to the Game Hub for that title. We’ll be adding additional types of content blocks in the coming months, so stay tuned for more. The team is always pushing to make the Xbox experience faster and faster. In this release, we’ve eliminated the wait between Home, Social, and My Games and Apps by consolidating them into one dashboard experience. No more splash screens means you get to fun even faster.
Effortless Guide Navigation: With this update, it’s faster than ever to switch between tabs in the guide so you can join friends, broadcast, switch between apps, and get back Home. New tab flyouts make it easier to see more content quickly, too. The new Guide layout quickly gets you to the stuff you care about, so you never miss a moment. It’s now even easier to switch between apps or get back to Home, and the new layout will enable you to quickly jump to different tabs using the left thumbstick, d-pad, or bumpers on your controller. Sign-in, Achievements, multiplayer (including parties, Looking for Group, and tournaments), People, Home and recent, messages, broadcasts and captures, and a new action center (including settings) each have their own tab in the new Guide.
A More Immersive Community: Staying connected with Friends and Clubs is now better than ever. The community section has an entirely new Activity Feed layout, showing more content at-a-glance. When looking at feed items in detail, they are presented in an immersive, full-screen view—sharing the experience just as it was captured. Reading comments is now much easier since the comment window can be expanded to fill the screen. You’ll now be able to skim the feed quickly or lean back on the couch and walk through it in detail – it’s entirely up to you. This makes it easier than ever to stay current with the games and friends you care about. Game Hubs, Profiles, and Clubs are also refreshed to make them more dynamic and engaging than ever before. We’re also making Improvements to Club discovery, to quickly display which Clubs you’re already a part of, and easily discover new Clubs to join. There will also be new titles that will be coming to Arena over the next few months, soon offering even more options for tournaments powered by Xbox Live.
Game Bar Gets Even Better: On Windows 10, we’re making it easier than ever to enable or disable Game Mode on a per-game basis by putting a switch directly in the Game bar. Mixer broadcasting with the Game bar will now give you more choices on the audio you broadcast; a new settings option will let you choose to broadcast game-only audio, or system-wide audio. We’ve also added a new Xbox Live Network Troubleshooting option to the Settings menu in Windows 10, which will help you track down connectivity issues and optimize your online multiplayer experience.
This is just the beginning of some major updates arriving for Xbox gamers later this year. We’ll be introducing plenty of new features in the coming months across Xbox One, Windows 10 PC, Mixer, and mobile devices designed to make your gaming experiences all about you. As always, we owe some big thanks for all the fan feedback we receive and review from gamers everywhere, as well as to the invaluable members of our Xbox Insider Program for all the feedback they provide regularly. We’ll be sharing more when the update releases to more fans later this year. The team has worked hard, and we hope you enjoy these latest updates to your Xbox One experience!
Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition announced
Xbox One X 主机限定版「Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition」曝光 https://gnn.gamer.com.tw/1/151381.html
微软配合在德国举办的欧陆最大规模电玩展 gamescom 2017 的到来,在 Xbox @ gamescom Live 直播中宣布将推出最新款主机「Xbox One X」的限定版本「Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition」,并宣布今(21)日起在欧美开放预购。
「Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition」的名称致敬了 Xbox One X 最初发表时的代号名 “天蝎计划(Project Scorpio)” 。 这台限量的主机将会带来特殊的涂装,主机的侧面和控制器上都低调的印上 “Project Scorpio” 的字样,外观也采特殊印刷,并多附上一只直立架。
配合消息的曝光,官方也释出了 Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition 的开箱影片。 开箱影片也强调,包装上也致敬了初代 Xbox 主机的设计,喜爱 Xbox 的粉丝一定会感到怀念且惊喜。
Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition 将会是限量款,售价和一般版本相同为 499 美元,11 月 7 日上市。 这个组合只限预购,日后并不会在一般通路上架贩卖。
Microsoft has announced the Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition. It features a custom design with the words “Project Scorpio” printed on the console and controller, a dynamic graphic pattern across the exterior, and an exclusive vertical stand.
A limited number of Xbox One X Project Scoprio Edition consoles will be produced. Pre-orders are available now while supplies last.
Xbox One X will launch on November 7 for $499.
Watch the Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition reveal trailer and an unboxing video below
《我的世界》特别主机「Xbox One S Minecraft Limited Edition」曝光 https://gnn.gamer.com.tw/0/151380.html
微软配合在德国举办的欧陆最大规模电玩展 gamescom 2017 的举办,在 Xbox @ gamescom Live 直播中宣布将推出以《我的世界(Minecraft)》为主题的主机组合「Xbox One S Minecraft Limited Edition」,内容将包含特殊涂装的 Xbox One S 主机(1TB),以及限定配色的手把。
而微软配合新主机所新推行的「Xbox One S Minecraft Limited Edition」,将会内含专用 Skin、音效和纹理素材的《我的世界》下载版游戏,预定在 2017 年 10 月 3 日在欧美发售。