Welcome to our weekly Xbox news recap series, where we go over the top stories of the past week in the world of Xbox. Let’s get started.
Game gifting coming to Xbox Live
Microsoft’s Mike Ybarra recently answered a long-standing question on Twitter: Are we going to be able to gift games to our friends online? What has seemed like such a simple functionality has finally made its way its way to Xbox Live, opening up an opportunity for people all over the world to give you gifts without having to socialize. His answer was vague, just coming down to a simple confirmation that this kind of feature IS coming – but it shouldn’t be long now until we have something concrete.
Not far!
— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) July 6, 2017
Our thoughts on the Xbox E3 event
E3 has come and gone this year, offering the same ups and downs that every ceremony has. Whether you were looking for the company’s new IPs or trying to get another look at an old franchise coming back to life, there was a little something there for everybody that was interested. If you’re interested in the specific opinions of some of our writers, you can take a look right over here.
Microsoft wants “Every kind of gamer”
Microsoft had a killer show, managing to cram in a massive amount of content to the conference, bringing to light all manner of different gamer, whether they like racing games, action games, puzzlers, or whatever it might be. The Head of Xbox Operations was recently this week quoted as saying “Your ability with first party titles from Microsoft – and a lot of the ID@Xbox ones, too – to do things like Xbox Play Anywhere where your license roams, right across those devices, is going to apply to whole first-party line-up.” This shift in tone is a nice change from a usually “hardcore” focused platform.
Dave McCarthy explains why it’s called the Xbox One X
The Xbox One X’s name has puzzled plenty of people recently since it was announced, shifting from a fairly favorable name like Project Scorpio to something that sounds fairly dorky, if you ask some people. Apparently, the reason for the naming was simple: They just wanted to use the classic “X” identity we’ve all come to know and love. There’s also some reasoning involved regarding the way that the letter “X” is often indicative of technological innovation.
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