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Major Nelson has just announced that the latest Xbox One system update will begin rolling out in a few hours. While we were already aware of some of the features coming with this push, his latest blog post details the full list of enhancements. You can check out the list, which includes friend list improvements, Kinect tuning, and automatic system updates, after the break.

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Max: The Curse of Brotherhood developer Press Play announced on Friday that it is working on a new IP for release on both Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Codenamed …
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Today is the first day of PAX East 2014, the day when eager fans flock to Boston to play some great upcoming games. Recently Capybara Games announced they will be attending …
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Popular browser-based, real-time strategy game AirMech is coming to Xbox 360 this summer in the form of AirMech Arena. Indie developers Carbon Games teamed up with publishers Ubisoft to …
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There have been scale replicas of the U.S.S. Enterprise and the Golden Gate Bridge, journeys into Westeros, Azeroth, Helm’s Deep, and Hyrule, but little could prepare us for what …
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Hey, we all love a freebie, right? Especially when the thing in question is not just something good, but something great. Something awesome. That thing on this occasion is …
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Strike Suit Zero Director’s Cut is out now on Xbox One, making it the first game to release through ID@Xbox. The ID@Xbox program began to allow indie developers to self-publish their games …
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Major Nelson released a preview of new features coming to the Xbox One yesterday. These include Blu-ray support for 50Hz video output with a promise of more updates to …
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Microsoft’s Xbox team is aware that many gamers aren’t fans of its forcing Xbox One and 360 owners to pay $59.99 annually for Xbox Live Gold access in order to play games online and access apps like Netflix. It’s aware that rivals Sony and Nintendo don’t charge their customers an additional fee to access many of the same apps. And since many of these apps (Netflix, HBO Go, etc.) already charge users a subscription fee, that means Microsoft is the only console creator making its customers pay a second time to enjoy such apps.

That might be changing at some point. Maybe. Possibly.

Phil Spencer, who in March was promoted to lead the Xbox team, recently had an exchange with a Twitter user over the Xbox’s app paywall, reports Forbes. His words may be of interest to Xbox Live Gold’s detractors.

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An update releasing today will make uploading gameplay clips to YouTube a seamless process. Content can now be captured with the Game DVR app, subsequently edited in Upload Studio, and …
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