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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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Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons started like any other – with a funny, culturally relevant intro. This one is a little more personal to gamers than normal, featuring Minecraft …
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Microsoft has plans in place to add one of the most-requested features missing from its next-gen Xbox One video game console — backwards compatibility. Responding to an audience member who asked if there were plans in place for Xbox 360 emulation on the Xbox One at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in San Francisco, the platform holder’s Partner Development Lead Frank Savage confirmed that such plans do indeed exist, reports Kotaku.

“There are [plans for Xbox 360 emulation on Xbox One], but we’re not done thinking them through yet, unfortunately,” Savage stated. “It turns out to be hard to emulate the PowerPC stuff on the X86 stuff. So there’s nothing to announce, but I would love to see it myself.”

When they launched this past November, neither Microsoft’s Xbox One nor Sony’s PlayStation 4 came equipped with backwards compatibility for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, their respective predecessors. The Xbox 360 was capable of playing select original Xbox games. Early PlayStation 3 models were capable of full PlayStation 2 backwards compatibility, while later versions of the console were only able to play digital PS2 games purchased on the PlayStation Store, not original disc-based versions of PS2 titles.

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The sandbox just got a bit smaller. The indie hit Minecraft has sold more than 12 million units on Xbox 360. The incredible cubic sandbox survival game is as popular as ever and amazing creations are popping up all over the map. A major factor in Xbox 360 Minecraft creations is that items can not be edited in mass like they can on the PC. This means the builders must do everything block by block, making the task of building a bit more tedious. When asked what the most amazing creation he has seen on the Xbox version of Minecraft was, Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan pointed out the amazing video below. Enjoy!

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Titanfall was one of the most-anticipated Xbox One releases thus far, but on its March 11 launch the only-online shooter ran into an unfortunate problem. Xbox Live server issues prevented many pilots from …
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The much-anticipated Trials Fusion is set to launch in less than two weeks and as such Ubisoft have released a brand new promotional trailer featuring a disapproving Officer Ray …
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Hidden Path Entertainment has announced it will be premiering Defense Grid 2 on Xbox One at PAX East next week. Representatives from the developer will be present to give …
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Telltale Games tweeted earlier today that The Wolf Among Us Episode 3: A Crooked Mile will come to Xbox Live Arcade worldwide on Wednesday, April 9. Episodes are available for $4.99 each, but the season pass for all five currently costs $14.99.

For those of you keeping up with the series, we have a trailer below for you to see what’s next. You can also read our full review of the first episode.

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