Xbox One prices slashed ahead of Black Friday

Most of the bundles, like the Gears of War 4 console and the Federation Internationale de Football Association 17 unit, start from £249.99.

The console will include all the new software updates. It hit its stride right out of the gate, smashing into Xbox One’s bad medieval DRM system (rightfully so), but shortly after, they kind of stopped making progress. And like numerous updates these past months, this one puts a lot of weight on the social aspects of gaming, like forming Clubs and Looking For Groups, whether on the console or on the PC. The software giant has not issued a statement of why it cancelled its plan and obviously, it shelved the Xbox One streaming stick at the last minute. As games evolve, Xbox Live has to evolve to make sure that we’re in front of what customers and game developers expect. There is also the $249 Battlefield 1 or Minecraft Xbox One S 500GB bundle with an additional controller to consider if you are into either title. The 500GB XOne S consoles are not only getting 2 free games (in some cases more than that), the units are of course now priced only at $299.

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While detractors will claim that the Xbox One S is just a stopgap until Scorpio is released in 2017, even they can’t deny that it’s been a very successful one. We don’t want people to have to bring up websites, find websites for different games. When a player earns a rare Achievement there will be a special notification and a diamond icon to highlight it.

Group Messaging on Xbox Live: Helps you coordinate and keep in touch with your friends and fellow gamers by sending a single group message to everyone in a single conversation. In that sense, the features are understandably more for community building and groups within the app. See the video below for an overview of the new features. A new predictive dictionary is also added which can be accessed on the controller’s right thumb stick. It will reset at the beginning of every month, so players get a fair chance to compete against each other with the same score.