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Experience the Master Chief's epic journey over five Halo games: The Master Chief Collection, featuring Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3, and Halo 4, as well as Halo 5: Guardians, which delivers epic multiplayer experiences that span multiple modes, full-featured level building tools, and the most dramatic Halo story to date. Additional information. Blood and Gore Language Violence Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB More. Publisher Microsoft Studios Developer 343 Industries. Genre Shooter. Platforms Xbox One Release date November 10, 2014 October 26, 2015. Get the Xbox One S Ultimate Halo Bundle (500GB) now. Buy now from the Microsoft Store: Other retailers: Additional accessories for your bundle. Xbox Design Lab. Make yours one in a billion with new colors, metallic finishes and rubberized grips. Xbox One Stereo Headset. Xbox One S Vertical Stand** More Xbox One Bundles and editions. 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Following the events of Halo 5, the all-new story is told in action-packed missions set on the legendary Halo destination known as the Ark. Players will strategically command overwhelming firepower in large-scale battles against a terrifying threat facing the UNSC and all of humanity. Blitz: Instant Command. Blitz is an entirely new way to experience Halo Wars and real-time strategy gameplay. Combining tactical combat with card-based strategy, your deck is your army in Blitz as you build collections of powerful Halo vehicles and troops and command those units in fast-action matches online or solo against waves of enemies. Ultimate games and 4K entertainment. Experience the only console with 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, 4K video streaming, and High Dynamic Range (HDR) 4 . HDR technology delivers richer, more luminous colors and has a higher contrast ratio between lights and darks to bring out the true visual depth of games and video. 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After shutting my Xbox off and restarting it a bunch of times I can finally watch my shows, but with my 360 it was so easy and simple. Never had any problems. One person found this helpful. Translate to English. Язык Microsoft Store: United States - English. Вас интересует язык Microsoft Store: Россия - Русский? Перевести на русский. You are shopping Microsoft Store in: United States - English. Are you looking for Microsoft Store in: Россия - Русский? Halo 5: Guardians. When the best goes rogue, the hero becomes the hunted. When humanity’s greatest hero goes missing, a Spartan Locke and Fireteam Osiris are tasked with hunting Master Chief and solving a mystery that threatens the entire galaxy. An epic story and innovative new multiplayer modes mark the greatest evolution in Halo history. What’s new with Halo 5: Guardians. The eleventh content release for Halo 5 since its launch, “Overtime” brings a host of exciting new additions to the Halo 5 experience – from 4K visual enhancements designed to take advantage of the Xbox One X, to the full-fledged return of the fan-favorite Oddball mode. Plus, the “Overtime” content release ushers in new weapon skins that celebrate the Halo World Championship and top HCS esports teams, the brand-new Local Server multiplayer feature, and more. The Halo Championship Series. Pro League is the next evolution of Halo esports. The HCS Pro League celebrates the world’s top Halo players and teams as they compete on weekly scheduled match days, and is accompanied by a robust open series that fosters the best up-and-coming talent as they fight to battle their way into HCS Pro League at the end of each season. You can watch it all unfold at halo. Monitor’s Bounty. With the incredible breadth of content on tap, Monitor's Bounty may just be the biggest and most exciting Halo 5: Guardians update of them all. Headlining the epic content salvo is the biggest Forge update in the history of the Halo franchise with over 650 new objects to build with, two brand-new canvases to create on, and a robust new scripting tool to give players more control than ever before. Game features. REQ System. New to Halo 5: Guardians is the Requisition System (REQ System), which rewards players for their time spent in Halo 5’s multiplayer modes. Players will earn REQ Points after each match in Arena or Warzone which can then be used to purchase REQ Packs containing a variety of REQ items in the form of unlockable weapons, armors, vehicles, stances, assassinations, and more! Massive-scale multiplayer mode that supports 24-player battles with both friendly and enemy AI dropping in. It’s nonstop action when you confront Spartans, Covenant, and Forerunners while trying to complete a variety of objectives.** An intense new story on a galactic scale: Play as the Master Chief and Spartan Locke as the hunt plays out across three new worlds. Your team is your weapon: Choose how to achieve objectives while playing solo with AI teammates or with friends in a 4-player cooperative experience using your Xbox Live 14-day Gold trial.** Halo: The Fall of Reach. An animated adaptation of the beloved Eric Nylund novel of the same name, and in many ways the origin story of the Master Chief and Blue Team. Told in three connected acts, the high-quality animated production is included with the Digital Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition and Limited Collector’s Edition of Halo 5: Guardians and can be viewed via The Halo Channel. Trailers and gameplay. Game details. A mysterious and unstoppable force threatens the galaxy while the Master Chief is missing and his loyalty questioned. Experience the most dramatic Halo story to date in a 4-player cooperative epic that spans three worlds. Challenge friends and rivals in new multiplayer modes: Warzone, massive 24-player battles, and Arena, pure 4-vs-4 competative combat. Additional information. Blood Mild Language Violence More. Publisher Microsoft Studios Developer 343 Industries. Genre Shooter Platforms Xbox One. Release date October 27, 2015. Now available on Xbox Game Pass. Play Halo 5 Guardians and 100+ other titles for a low monthly price with Xbox Game Pass, new games added every month. Try FREE for 14 days. Already an Xbox Game Pass subscriber? Get the game. Standard Edition. Includes a digital copy of the game and an Xbox Live Gold 14-day trial** – perfect for playing with friends. Get unlimited access to this, plus over 100 other games on Game Pass. Deluxe Edition. Lock and load with the Halo 5: Guardians Digital Deluxe Edition which includes the Warzone REQ Bundle** - 14 Premium Requisition packs to enhance Spartan combat. Which one is yours? Elevate your game. Xbox Design Lab. Personalize your very own Xbox Wireless Controller. Now available. Xbox Live Gold. Xbox Elite Wireless Controller. * Enhanced features for Xbox One X subject to release of a content update. Games information at xbox.com/enhanced. Select retailers only. ** Online multiplayer features require Xbox Live Gold membership (sold separately). 14-day trial offer cannot be transferred, redeemed for cash, or combined with any other offer. Offer is not valid on prior Xbox Live Gold membership purchases. Warzone REQ bundle (includes 14 Premium Requisition Packs, with 2 releasing on a weekly basis) requires Halo 5: Guardians game, Xbox Live Gold membership (sold separately) and broadband internet; ISP fees apply. Halo: The Fall of Reach – Animated Series is streaming only via Halo Channel and requires broadband internet; ISP fees apply. Guardian model requires assembly. 1TB and 500GB Xbox One S bundles arriving Aug. 23 with Madden NFL 17 and Halo Collection. Play over 100 console exclusives on the highly anticipated, newly designed Xbox One S, featuring 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, 4K video streaming and High Dynamic Range for games and video. With all the biggest blockbusters this year, plus Xbox 360 backward compatibility titles, and the most advanced multiplayer network, Xbox One S is the ultimate games and entertainment system – starting at $299. Today, we’re announcing the first set of 500GB and 1TB Xbox One S bundles, the Xbox One S Madden NFL 17 Bundle and the Xbox One S Halo Collection Bundle. Both bundles arrive in stores on August 23 and are available for pre-order starting today. Xbox One S Madden NFL 17 Bundle. In partnership with EA SPORTS, we’re offering the Xbox One S Madden NFL 17 Bundle for fans in the U.S. and Canada. Packed with everything a football fan needs to get ready for the season, the Xbox One S Madden NFL 17 Bundle comes loaded with a 1TB hard drive to play all the biggest blockbusters in Xbox history, a full-game download* of Madden NFL 17 , seven Madden Ultimate Team Pro Packs and one month of EA Access for $349 USD / $449 CAD. And now for a limited time, when you purchase the Xbox One S Madden NFL 17 Bundle, you’ll get a promotional code for 20 percent off your next order at NFLShop.com. Xbox One S Halo Collection Bundle. In addition to the Xbox One S Madden NFL 17 Bundle, we’re also offering the Xbox One S Halo Collection Bundle, the ideal way to dive into the world of Xbox One and the iconic Halo universe. The Xbox One S Halo Collection Bundle comes with a 500GB or 1TB Xbox One S, matching Xbox Wireless Controller and five games between Halo 5: Guardians and Halo: The Master Chief Collection . It’s perfect for those looking to relive the Master Chief’s epic journey or battle on the biggest maps in franchise history in Warzone multiplayer. Both the 500GB and 1TB hard drive options for the Xbox One Halo Collection Bundle will be available at participating retailers, including Microsoft Stores, in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand for $299 USD and $349 USD, respectively. Note that, in the U.S., the 1TB hard drive option will only be available in very limited quantities at select Microsoft Stores and microsoftstore.com. We’ll have more to share about 500GB and 1TB Xbox One S bundles in additional markets next month. We’re continuing to offer our fans the best choices to enjoy the games they want to play, with the people they want to play with and on the devices they want. Whether fans suit up as a Spartan or an NFL quarterback, we look forward to offering them the ultimate gaming and entertainment experiences on Xbox. *Bundles purchased at GameStop will include a physical copy of Madden NFL 17. The Xbox One X is Here! By GrimBrother One - 11/7/2017. There’s always something special about a new console launch – whether it’s a completely new generation, or a svelte and sleeker “slim” treatment, it always feels like a bit of a rebirth. With the new Xbox One X, we’re seeing something pretty unique in the console gaming scene. It’s a piece of hardware that both stands in a league of its own from a performance standpoint, but one that also embraces the legacy of not only its current generation, but of the ones that came before. The Xbox One X is an immaculately styled evolutionary monster, a teraflop-wielding, scorpion-riding, harbinger of high-resolution gaming goodness – a true “halo” product in the Xbox One family. We’re extremely excited to be part of this new chapter and can’t wait for folks to see Halo in a whole new light. With today’s launch of the Xbox One X, Halo 5 can now be experienced in glorious 4K eyeball-excitement. It’s no exaggeration when we say that Halo 5 looks and plays better than ever on Xbox One X – with unmatched clarity, richness, and detail in 4K Ultra HD (on a compatible display, of course), get crisp, smooth control, and consistent visual feedback, plus bathe in the glory of Xbox One X’s unsung benefit, way faster load times. Seriously, load up a campaign mission and see. It’s glorious. In a recent Halo Livestream, 343’s Studio Head of FPS Games Chris Lee spoke about some of the new advantages that playing Halo 5 on the Xbox One X will bring – check his portion out right HERE. Plus, Chris also spoke recently with Xbox Wire on more details regarding enhancing Halo 5 for the Xbox One X, and he and Frank O’Connor joined the Xbox team on the official Xbox One X launch stream which you can check out right HERE. HALO WARS 2. Of course, Halo 5 isn’t the only horse in the stable, as Halo Wars 2 also sees a rather lovely upgrade thanks to the power of the new console. The beloved RTS experience has supported 4K resolutions since launch on Windows 10 PC, with HDR support added for both Xbox One S and PC several months ago. Now, with its latest update, you’ll be able to bring all of these delicious visual enhancements over to your new Xbox One X in one convenient console package. Of course, Halo 5 isn’t the only horse in the stable, as Halo Wars 2 also sees a rather lovely upgrade thanks to the power of the new console. The beloved RTS experience has supported 4K resolutions since launch on Windows 10 PC, with HDR support added for both Xbox One S and PC several months ago. Now, with its latest update, you’ll be able to bring all of these delicious visual enhancements over to your new Xbox One X in one convenient console package. Also, Scarab beams in 4K? So, so good. But wait, what about some of those classic Halo experiences that helped cement Halo’s legacy? Whether you’re a long-time Legendary liaison, or a fresh-to-the-franchise greenhorn looking to brush up on your Halo history, going back to play some of the older time-honored titles is both a blast and a benefit to your overall experience. Recently, Halo: CEA, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo 4 joined Halo: Reach and Halo Wars in making all Xbox 360-era mainline Halo games backwards-compatible on the Xbox One. To make things even better, just a few weeks ago, we announced that Halo 3 would be receiving the “enhanced for Xbox One X” treatment, letting players experience the legendary fight-finishing finale to the original trilogy in glorious 4K resolution on the Xbox One X. It’s a sight to behold, and a fitting honor for the newly ten-year-old title. MORE IN STORE. Of course, it’s not just a new console arrival that Halo fans have to be excited about. We’ve got the brand-new Overtime content release for Halo 5, which brings the beloved Oddball mode back in full force. We also have the upcoming Halo World Championship 2018, with some exciting related news and announcement just down the road for fans of top-flight competitive Halo. All in all, it’s a great time to be a fan of both Xbox and Halo, and we’d even like to think we’re just getting started. Congrats to the entire Xbox One X team on a successful launch, and we’ll see you online! Halo Community Update. Raising Xpectations. By GrimBrother One - 11/9/2017. We’ve had new game updates for both Halo 5 and Halo Wars 2, a couple of fun Livestreams, oh, and the most powerful console ever built hit the shelves this past Tuesday. You know, all normal ho-hum stuff. Of course, since you’re already here, we might as well recap some of the details, right? Let’s begin. Halo Heroes - Series 5 Figures Are Here! By GrimBrother One - 11/13/2017. Celebrating the brand-new Series 5 of the popular Halo Heroes line, this sweet new Mega Construx stop-motion vignette showcases new figures on a fun and action-packed adventure – one that so many fans and collectors can recreate on their very own. Let’s check out the new video, and then talk about the new series of figures! Halo 5: Guardians. Spookyfest - Community Infection Modes. By Unyshek - 10/31/2017. In a Community Update quite some time ago, we featured ArturBloodshot's scary Infection mode – The Cellar. Since then, he's been one of our go-to sources for scary Forge minigames, and has shown Ske7ch, Grim, and me some great creations. Recently, he compiled a list of his favorite frightening Infection modes and shared them with us, and we in turn wanted to share it with all of you for Halloween. If you feel like playing some nerve-racking custom games on this All Hallows' Eve, look no further.

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Mexico City has quickly established itself as a major stop on the Gears Esports tour. The Gears Pro Circuit Mexico City Open featured sold out crowds, a huge player pool and major upsets as teams battled for the $200,000 prize pool. OpTic Gaming continued to prove it is arguably the most dominant force in esports today by taking home another trophy after defeating Ghost Gaming in the Grand Final. This weekend also featured the return of Daniel “Identivez” Santillana, the top ranked Mexican player, who helped Ghost Gaming get to the Grand Finals for the first time. The surprise team of the event was Fable Gaming – the top EU team – with its improbable run to the top four. Read more : OpTic Gaming Claims Victory at the Gears Pro Circuit Mexico Open. Moana and Xbox Characters Come to Minecraft! Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Multiplayer Closed Beta Starts Now! Xbox Designs the Ultimate Football Ring for Fans. How would you like to win your very own Xbox ring inspired by the Big Game just by playing Madden NFL 18 on Xbox One? We're talking 10 carats, premium white gold with 188 diamonds and 46 earthy green tsavorite stones valued at over $10,000! From now until February 5, Xbox fans who win an online head-to-head matchup playing Madden NFL 18 on Xbox, while broadcasting on Mixer, will be eligible to win our one-of-a-kind Xbox-themed ring. Check out the full details of the sweepstakes on Mixer here. The winner will be selected at random on February 7, so don’t forget to stream your next Madden match-up on Mixer. Who knows, it could land you some Xbox bling! After taking a shot at. Read more : Xbox Designs the Ultimate Football Ring for Fans. Xbox Live Sessions: Rob Gronkowski to Play Madden for Special Football Show. Calling all football fans! The Big Game is almost here and who better to help us celebrate than with two-time champ, Rob Gronkowski? That’s right! Gronk is bringing his gaming skills to Xbox Live Sessions: Big Game Edition, as he challenges former teammate LeGarrette Blount to a Madden NFL 18 showdown on Xbox One X. Featuring our 4K Ultra HD enhanced edition of Madden for Xbox One X, Gronk and Blount will square-off on Tuesday, January 30 at 5:30 p.m. PT. Fans are invited to visit the Microsoft Store at Mall of America to watch Gronk and Blount in-person, but other viewers around the globe can tune-in to the Mixer Xbox channel to take part in the fun. Just like our previous Xbox. Read more : Xbox Live Sessions: Rob Gronkowski to Play Madden for Special Football Show. Next Week on Xbox: New Games for January 29 – February 4. Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all of the new games coming soon to Xbox One. Every week, the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console -- and Xbox Wire will be here to let you know when these games will be hitting Xbox One. From establishing a historic railroad network in Railway Empire to stepping into the octagon in EA Sports UFC 3, there's a great variety of titles on the way. Read more about these games and more. Read more : Next Week on Xbox: New Games for January 29 – February 4. This Week on Xbox: January 26, 2018. We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you can feast your eyes on our weekly video show above. Be sure to come back every Friday to find out what’s happening This Week on Xbox! Xbox Game Pass Expands to Include New Releases from Microsoft Studios When we launched Xbox Game Pass in June 2017, we knew we wanted to craft a service with gamers in mind. That meant a diverse, expanding library of over 100 games and counting. Read more : This Week on Xbox: January 26, 2018. Monster Hunter: World Arrives on Xbox One. Welcome to the New World, hunters! It’s been a very exciting ride since we announced Monster Hunter: World at E3 2017, and we’re stoked to finally bring the one-of-a-kind thrill of hunting savage monsters to the Xbox One. In Monster Hunter: World, you’ll take the role of a hunter venturing into a new, uncharted land as part of the Research Commission, who have set out to investigate a strange phenomenon of cataclysmic proportions. But your journey will not be without its challenges; the New World is filled with formidable foes. The Monsters Each creature moves and behaves like a real living being and have their own unique habits, personalities, and place in the food chain. As. Read more : Monster Hunter: World Arrives on Xbox One. Dragon Ball FighterZ Available Now and Enhanced for Xbox One X. Get those Kamehameha, Big Bang, and Death Ball attacks ready as Dragon Ball FighterZ is now available for the Xbox One family of devices and enhanced for Xbox One X. With amazing looking character models and an easy to learn but hard to master fighting gameplay, Dragon Ball FighterZ looks to be the definitive fighting game experience for fans of the "Dragon Ball" anime franchise. With a slew of features like 3 vs. 3 tag-team battles, online ranked matches, interactive lobbies and the six-player Party Match, there's a ton here to take in and master. In addition to all those features, there's also an epic single-player story that follows Android 21, a new character who was created just. Read more : Dragon Ball FighterZ Available Now and Enhanced for Xbox One X. An Amazing 2017 with TONS on the Horizon. It was just eight months ago when we introduced Mixer. Looking back on 2017, it’s hard to believe that so much has happened in such a short time….and it’s been an amazing feeling getting to bring our vision to life in a service and community unlike any other. Looking Back at 2017 In 2017, we introduced 4-person co-streaming, enabling streamers to combine their streams and chat on Mixer into a single unified experience, and giving viewers a way to watch the action from multiple perspectives. Several unique Mixer-interactive game experiences were brought to life during 2017, giving streamers and viewers a totally new way to play. These included Minecraft, Hello Neighbor. Read more : An Amazing 2017 with TONS on the Horizon. Roguevania Dead Cells Coming Soon to Xbox One. Dead Cells is a mash-up, a veritable Frankenstein’s monster of a game, which pretty much makes me Dr. Frankenstein, which is nice. We’re trying to wed the randomness, replayability, and adrenaline pumping threat of permadeath that you find in a rogue-lite, (think Binding of Isaac, Enter the Gungeon, Rogue Legacy, etc.) with the anticipation of exploration, the thrill of discovering a secret and the progressive unlocking of a world that you find in Metroidvania games (think Ori and the Blind Forest, Guacamelee, Axiom Verge, etc.). The main inspiration for the game is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which you might have noticed from the pixel art. But wait, there's more! The. Read more : Roguevania Dead Cells Coming Soon to Xbox One. Gears Pro Circuit Descends on Mexico City. Gears Esports heads south of the border for the Gears Pro Circuit Mexico City Open from January 26 to January 28. This open event, held at the World Trade Center in Mexico City, will feature one of biggest and most passionate crowds in all of Gears of War esports cheering on their favorite teams as they battle for a $200,000 prize pool. Watch and see if local favorites Ronin and World Best Gaming are able to leverage the raucous, Latin American crowd to propel them past North American powerhouses like OpTic Gaming and Echo Fox or if OpTic Gaming will further solidify their legacy as perhaps the most dominant team in esports history, or if a team emerges from the Open Bracket to battle. Read more : Gears Pro Circuit Descends on Mexico City. Step into the UFC 3 Octagon Before Launch with EA Access. Get ready fight fans! EA Sports UFC 3 is launching Friday, February 2, 2018 on Xbox One. Join cover athlete Conor McGregor and become the greatest of all time, inside and outside the octagon! You can start your training even earlier and become the G.O.A.T. even faster with EA Access. EA Access members can try EA Sports UFC 3 on January 25. Plus, your saved progress will carry over to the full game if you decide to buy. And as an EA Access member, you will also get a 10% discount automatically with your membership! Sign up for EA Access today. Get UFC 3 Champions Edition Get the ultimate octagon experience with EA Sports UFC 3 Champions Edition. In addition to getting three days. Read more : Step into the UFC 3 Octagon Before Launch with EA Access. Play Fallout 4 for Free This Weekend with Xbox Live Gold. Return to the Commonwealth for free this weekend as Fallout 4 has its second-ever free weekend exclusive to Xbox Live Gold members starting at 12:01 a.m. PST on Thursday, January 25 and running to 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, January 28. How do ya’ like them Dandy Boy Apples? In addition to the free weekend, you can take advantage of some great discounts on all versions of Fallout 4. Pick up the standard edition of Fallout 4 for 33% off, Fallout 4 G.O.T.Y. for 40% off, and Fallout 4 Season Pass for 50% off. You can also pick up the individual DLCs for 40% off all for a limited time! And should you decide to return to the Commonwealth at a later date, all your Xbox Live achievements and. Read more : Play Fallout 4 for Free This Weekend with Xbox Live Gold. Celebrating over 4 Million PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Players on Xbox One! Today we’re excited to announce another milestone for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG): the community of players on console has now grown to over 4M players! We’re thrilled to see the community continue to grow and have been inspired by everyone’s enthusiasm for the game – with your ongoing support and feedback we will continue to evolve PUBG and create the best experience for Xbox players. This week we deployed the sixth content update for the game, delivering numerous gameplay, optimization and bug fixes. More details on all the updates we’ve made since launch can be found here. To show the community our appreciation for your support and feedback, we are rewarding. Read more : Celebrating over 4 Million PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Players on Xbox One! New Games with Gold for February 2018. Welcome to another exciting month of titles included with Games with Gold! This month on Xbox One we'll get our hands on the cult-classic first-person shooter Shadow Warrior and travel to 19th century India in Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India. Then on Xbox 360 and Xbox One thanks to Backward Compatibility, we'll get to experience the thrill of reality television racing in Split/Second as well as reliving those arcade racing days with the classic Crazy Taxi. All games will be available exclusively for Xbox Live Gold members for a limited time as part of Games with Gold. With Xbox Live Gold, you get the most advanced multiplayer, free games, exclusive member discounts on games in the. Read more : New Games with Gold for February 2018. Xbox Live Sessions: UFC Champ Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson to Play Dragon Ball FighterZ with Friends. Demetrious Johnson and Xavier Woods may be professional fighters, but on January 25 at 2 p.m. PT, their true talent will be put to the test as they play the all-new Dragon Ball FighterZ on Xbox Live Sessions, an interactive livestream hosted on the Mixer Xbox Channel. Johnson, who remains the undisputed champion in the UFC Flyweight Division, and Woods, former multiple WWE Tag Team Champion, will join content creators Maximilian Dood and Rhymestyle at Bandai Namco headquarters in the ultimate fighting game showdown on Xbox One X. Fans will be able to tune-in to this very special livestream to see their fighting game skills put to the test and have the chance to submit questions as. Read more : Xbox Live Sessions: UFC Champ Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson to Play Dragon Ball FighterZ with Friends. Assassin’s Creed Origins: The Hidden Ones DLC Available Now on Xbox One. Assassin's Creed Origins' world gets even bigger today with the release of The Hidden Ones, a DLC expansion that adds the new Sinai region to the map, as well as a new storyline, new weapons and outfits, and more. Set four years after the events of Assassin's Creed Origins, The Hidden Ones puts Bayek in conflict with an occupying force of Romans as his fledgling Assassin Brotherhood continues to grow. Despite taking place after the campaign, you can access The Hidden Ones at any time by starting one of its quests or fast-traveling to the new region – although it's recommended for players who are at least close to level 40. The DLC also raises the level cap to 45, letting you. Read more : Assassin’s Creed Origins: The Hidden Ones DLC Available Now on Xbox One. Creators Corner: Croc’s World. Xbox Live Creators Program empowers passionate developers everywhere to share their games with the world. In the Creator's Corner series, Xbox Live Creators Program developers will share what inspires and motivates them to design and create their games, what challenges and creative solutions they pursue to bring their games to fruition, and how they leverage Xbox Live capabilities to enhance their games for Xbox. Today, we’ll be chatting with Benjamin Sprakel of Sprakelsoft, based out of Berlin, Germany, about his experience creating and bringing Croc’s World to the Windows and Xbox audience. What’s your favorite game, ever, and why? If you mean my favorite game of other studios. Read more : Creators Corner: Croc’s World. Xbox Game Pass Expands to Include New Releases from Microsoft Studios. When we launched Xbox Game Pass in June 2017, we knew we wanted to craft a service with gamers in mind. That meant a diverse, expanding library of over 100 games and counting, matched with one monthly price and unlimited access to download and play full-fidelity experiences. We’ve been blown away by the incredible response. Following launch, we heard from fans around the world who wanted Xbox Game Pass in their country. In September, we expanded globally and Xbox Game Pass is now available to fans in 40 countries. We’ve also continued to expand the catalog with new games added to the Xbox Game Pass library every month, so there is always something new to play. We know our fans. Read more : Xbox Game Pass Expands to Include New Releases from Microsoft Studios. Prepare to Get Started in Robocraft Infinity, Coming Soon to Xbox One and Windows 10. Hello! Noddydog here to give you some getting started tips in Robocraft Infinity Enhanced Edition, coming soon to Xbox One and Windows 10. If you’ve never heard of us before, Robocraft Infinity allows you to build robots block-by-block and face off against other players in their own custom build robots in multiplayer deathmatch and battle arena. In Robocraft Infinity there is no limit to what you can build and take into battle. As we have a block-based system for creating robots, inspired by Minecraft, it's possible to build whatever type of robot you want - be it an animal, car, jet, tank, mech, dinosaur in a top hat or something inspired by your favourite sci-fi game series. Read more : Prepare to Get Started in Robocraft Infinity, Coming Soon to Xbox One and Windows 10.

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Попробуйте Microsoft Edge быстрый и безопасный браузер, разработанный для Windows 10 Нет Начало работы. Предупреждение службы Xbox Live. Добро пожаловать в игру Halo для Xbox One и Windows 10. Здесь вы найдете ссылки на видеоролики и демонстрационные материалы, сведения о состоянии всех игровых серверов, а также рекомендации по устранению неполадок. Здесь также можно найти ссылки на игры для Xbox One и Windows 10. Поддержку сообщества и форумы, посвященные Halo, можно найти на сайте http://www.halowaypoint.com. На этой странице. Видеоролики, демоверсии и изображения для Halo Wars 2 Сведения об игровом процессе, дополнениях и покупке игры. См. ответы на часто задаваемые вопросы об игре Halo Wars 2. Дополнительные сведения об этих различиях и улучшениях, которые они предоставляют. Halo Wars 2 — игра Xbox Play Anywhere. Поиск решений по устранению возможных неполадок при запуске игры на Xbox One или Windows 10. Посетите форумы Halo Wars, где можно больше узнать об игре, присоединяйтесь к сообществу для обмена мнениями и ищите ответы на вопросы, связанные с устранением неполадок, которых нет в данном документе. Видеоролики и демоверсии для игры Halo Wars: Definitive Edition. Сведения об игровом процессе, дополнениях и покупке игры. Читайте ответы на часто задаваемые вопросы об игре Halo Wars: Definitive Edition. Ниже приводятся советы по устранению наиболее распространенных проблем, возникающих во время игры в Halo Wars: Definitive Edition. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition — игра Xbox Play Anywhere. Поиск решений по устранению возможных неполадок при запуске игры на Xbox One или Windows 10. Halo Wars: Definitive Edition теперь доступна в Steam! Приобретите эту игру, найдите сведения о поддержке и взаимодействуйте с сообществом Steam Powered. Посетите форумы Halo Wars, где можно больше узнать об игре, присоединяйтесь к сообществу для обмена мнениями и ищите ответы на вопросы, связанные с устранением неполадок, которых нет в данном документе. Видеоролики, демоверсии и изображения для Halo 5: Forge Сведения об игровом процессе, дополнениях и покупке игры. См. ответы на часто задаваемые вопросы об игре Halo 5: Forge. Если возникла ошибка, здесь можно найти некоторые объяснения и описания действий по устранению неполадок. Посетите форум по игре Halo 5: Forge, где можно больше узнать об игре. Присоединяйтесь к сообществу для обмена мнениями. Там же можно получить ответы на вопросы по диагностике неполадок, которых нет в данном документе. Знакомство с Halo 5: Guardians — видеоролики и демонстрационные версии. Сведения об игровом процессе, дополнениях и покупке игры. Дополнительные сведения о системе REQ, поиске справочных материалов и устранении проблем с загрузкой контента. Сведения по устранению проблем, связанных с подбором игроков, и о том, как устранить ошибки подключения на вашей консоли. Если есть проблемы с работой оборудования Halo 5: Guardians, то дополнительную справку и советы можно найти здесь. Посетите форум по игре Halo 5: Guardians, где можно больше узнать об игре. Присоединяйтесь к сообществу для обмена мнениями. Там же можно получить ответы на вопросы по диагностике неполадок, которых нет в данном документе. Изучите игру Halo: The Master Chief Collection, просмотрев видеоролики и демонстрационные материалы. Получите представление об игровом процессе, дополнениях и покупке игры. Читайте ответы на часто задаваемые вопросы об игре Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Посетите форум Halo: The Master Chief Collection, чтобы получить дополнительные сведения об игре, присоединиться к сообществу для обмена мнениями и поиска ответов на вопросы, которых нет в данном документе. Если вам по-прежнему нравится одна из следующих версий Halo, посетите веб-сайт Halo Waypoint, на котором можно получить дополнительные сведения. Если во время игры в службе Xbox Live возникли проблемы, проверьте оповещения о состоянии службы. Увидев какие-либо предупреждения, дождитесь возобновления работы службы и повторите попытку. Что делать, если игровой диск не воспроизводится на консоли Xbox. Как установить игру на жесткий диск Xbox One. Как управлять сохраненными играми и поддерживать синхронизацию через службу Xbox Live. Как устанавливать игры и загружаемый контент для игр Xbox One после погашения кода. Сведения о достижениях и испытаниях, а также о способах заработать награды на консоли Xbox One. Как устранить неполадки, связанные с медленной загрузкой игр и приложений на консоли Xbox One. Если не удается подключиться к многопользовательским играм через службу Xbox Live, выполните следующие действия. Выполните вход в свою учетную запись Microsoft для управления данными, покупками, семейными устройствами, безопасностью и конфиденциальностью. Перед покупкой игры убедитесь, что ваше устройство пригодно для этой игры. Справку по платежным операциям и покупкам см. в службе поддержки Магазина Windows. Поиск решений для проблем, связанных со сбоями, зависанием и низкой производительностью игр для Windows 10. Если разрешить автоматическое обновление, на устройстве всегда будут установлены последние ПО и драйверы устройств. Halo 5: Xbox One X's most impressive 4K upgrade? The way it's meant to be played. By John Linneman Published 10/11/2017. Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox One X. Step back for a moment to the year 2015. 343 Industries is releasing Halo 5: Guardians to eager fans the world over. While not completely escaping criticism, the game itself is well received and ultimately, it's a solid shooter with tight gameplay and gorgeous art direction - all delivered at a solid 60 frames per second frame-rate. However, that silky-smooth performance level came at a price: image quality. Xbox One just wasn't powerful enough to resolve everything the game had to offer, but with the release of Xbox One X, there's a strong argument that 343's vision is now fully delivered. Welcome to the new face of Halo 5 on Microsoft's new six-teraflop console. The blurry mask is peeled back, revealing the full beauty of the original game. It's a revelatory improvement and the remarkable reality is that 343's 4K patch doesn't seem to offer huge improvements to core asset quality. There are some tweaks, improvements and refinements, but the fact is that by increasing resolution and texture filtering quality alone, the game is massively transformed, its inner beauty finally revealed. In fact, the high resolution now reveals details which were once impossible to see. A case in point is the battle rifle - its rear-mounted display now resolves text detail right down to incidentals like the remaining battery life. It looks like the self-same artwork is used on the standard version of the game, but there simply wasn't the pixel real estate or the definition to actually see all of the intricate details. Perhaps more than any other game at the launch of the new Xbox, Halo 5 demonstrates just how much of an upgrade the hardware is capable of delivering, and while 1080p display users benefit, the 4K advantage is undeniable. Our video breakdown of the Halo 5 upgrade for Xbox One X. It's an exceptional improvement. Which brings us to the key question then - just how much has the resolution improved and to what extent is 'true 4K' actually delivered? On the base Xbox One, Halo 5 is designed to target 1080p whenever possible but in reality, the game very rarely reaches this point. Nearly every single battle in the game plays out at lower pixel counts, even producing results as low as 810p at times. It's not optimal, but it made that perfect 60 frames per second action possible - a fair and logical trade-off. On Xbox One X, the base resolution does indeed increase to a native 2160p or full 4K. Dynamic resolution scaling is still employed to ensure consistency in performance but this time, Halo 5 does a much better job in sticking closer to its optimal pixel count, with smaller skirmishes and less crowded areas all delivering native 4K. In terms of pure compute power, Xbox One X has a 4.6x advantage over the launch version of the older system and you get all of that scalability transferred into raw pixel count in Halo 5 - and more. In fact, in like-for-like scenarios we've seen anything up to five or even six times the resolution on Xbox One X. Engaging the new system's GPU power and its prolific leap in memory bandwidth, the leap is tremendous. In terms of dynamic resolution scaling metrics, Halo 5 still adjusts the X and Y axis independently, resulting in some oddball values. This includes resolutions such as 2816x1584 and 3360x1890. From a normal viewing distance and during the heat of action, however, these drops are difficult to notice. The perception during play is that Halo 5 is now a razor-sharp experience, more worthy of your display, whatever resolution it may be. Yes, Halo 5 is at its best on a 4K TV, there's no doubt about it, but owners of 1080p displays benefit greatly as well. The increase in resolution is immediately evident from the very first stage. From the additional details now visible on your rifle to the sharper textures across the environment, it's an impressive upgrade. With the Xbox One X update installed, cutscenes receive a significant boost to both image quality and scene detail throughout the game. Depth of field is tied to rendering resolution, so the effect appears stronger on the original Xbox One. Texture detail is boosted by the higher resolution - the text engraved across his firearm is perfectly legible on Xbox One X. The increase in resolution and texture filtering quality greatly enhances scenes such as this even when using a 1080p display. We think the filtering improvement is a combination of more sampling via higher resolution, plus increased anisotropic filtering. There are two reasons for this and it applies to a great number of games available for the system. First and foremost, the Xbox One X down-samples everything automatically, so you can count on improved, super-sampled image quality on your TV display. But the most important thing to consider is this: Halo 5 and many other Xbox One games fail to reach 1080p much of the time. If you're playing Halo 5 on an Xbox One on a 1080p TV, you're still getting sub-native image quality throughout. On Xbox One X, however, just the bump to 1080p offers a huge improvement but super-sampling takes things beyond that even. And this brings us to the second reason - texture filtering and by extension, unpatched image quality. As we highlighted in our Xbox One X review, prior to the launch of the system, we tested Halo 5 on the system without the 4K patch installed and the dynamic scaler still takes advantage of the faster hardware automatically. This means that Halo 5 runs at a full 1080p without any additional patching right out of the box. It demonstrates the flexibility of the renderer when coupled with more powerful hardware - and the X hardware enforces 16x anistropic filtering on top of that. With the 4K patch installed, texture filtering is greatly improved over the muddy ground textures of the base Xbox One, allowing detail to be preserved further into the distance. However, the enforced 16x AF in the unpatched code actually resolves more detail than the 4K patch in some areas. Clearly, the massive bump in resolution leaves fewer resources for high quality texture filtering and the 16x AF had to give. It's still a huge improvement either way, but the results on Halo 5 before 343 got to grips with the new hardware are certainly fascinating. Clearly though, given the choice, we'd go for the 4K patch. In select cutscenes, there are new details present in the world. The red tubing and attached mechanism visible on Xbox One X are completely absent on Xbox One. Water reflection quality is increased as a result of the higher rendering resolution while plenty of additional details are visible across the scene. Alpha effect are still rendered at a lower resolution resulting in noticeable pixilation on overlapping edges but the higher overall resolution helps mitigate the effect. Master Chief has never looked better. Once again, an increase in texture detail helps enhance cutscene quality beyond the original release. There are improvements beyond resolution and filtering too, with 343 making strategic upgrades that vary in scale. The text and surrounding elements are all recreated at native 4K, meaning that everything from your in-game HUD to the various menus throughout the game are improved and sit nicely on an ultra HD display. There's also evidence to suggest that 343 has made some subtle boosts to level of detail settings - in one area, more debris resolves on the ground, while in cutscenes, draw distance on incidental detail is pushed further into the background. Beyond these changes, Halo 5 retains many of the same performance-saving techniques present in the original release. Considering this is a patch produced two years after launch, this is fully expected. Animation still plays at half-rate when enemies are at a distance or when the battlefield becomes too crowded - a factor of CPU time remaining relatively limited, even on Xbox One X. Shadow quality also remains inconsistent at times with alpha effects, such as fire, removing them from view to avoid overdraw, just as we saw in the original release. It would have been great to see these issues addressed but again, it's not unexpected since it is an incremental upgrade - not a revamp of the entire engine. Thankfully, even with the massive jump in pixel count, Halo 5's adaptive resolution feature remains as effective as ever. During our time with the game on Xbox One X, we played through a chunk of every single mission in the game and never once encountered any actual GPU-related drops in performance. Everything was smooth and stable, just as you'd hope. Our focus during the title's 2015 debut concerned the compromises 343 made in delivering that exceptional 60fps experience - the good news is that 343's dedication here has not wavered. Our original Xbox One breakdown of the game. On X, the price of 60 frames per second isn't anything like as pronounced. The one caveat to keep in mind though concerns occasional loading hitches. As with every other game in the series, Halo 5 regularly fetches data from the hard disk to provide a more seamless experience and that remains the case here. When moving between areas or travelling at a high speed, you'll still run into occasional hitches and blips. Our advice here? Run the game from the internal drive - it cuts down the impact of the pauses, though it can't remove them completely. The bottom line is that Halo 5 on Xbox One X is an excellent upgrade. There is a sense that the original artwork crafted for the game was never fully visible on an original Xbox One and with Halo 5 only existing in a limited form on PC, there's a good argument that we never got to play the entire game in the way it was meant to be played. The bottom line is that with Xbox One X, now you can. If you missed out on Halo and can accept that this is a vision unique to 343 Industries, rather than a Bungie-style offering, it's absolutely worth a look. And this is only the first step in upgrading the overall Halo experience for Xbox One X. The Master Chief Collection is slated for upgrades early next year, while owners of the original Xbox 360 version of Halo 3 can already enjoy it at a much higher resolution with HDR enabled - a superb spin on Xbox 360 backward compatibility, and something we'll be looking at in more depth soon. Combine all of this with the native 4K patch for Halo Wars 2 that's also available now and it's clear that Microsoft and 343 are fully engaged in getting the most out of the Master Chief's library titles for its shiny new console. Now, how about a 4K HDR upgrade for Halo Reach? Sometimes we include links to online retail stores. If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. For more information, go here. Games in this article. Halo 5: Guardians. Follow the games you're interested in and we'll send you an email the instant we publish new articles about them. Microsoft's 'Netflix for Xbox' will let you play Halo 6 on day one. Exclusive first-party games will now arrive day-and-date on the Xbox Game Pass subscription service. You'll never have to buy another Halo, Forza, Gears of War or Crackdown again. if you subscribe instead. Last year, Microsoft dared to ask -- what if playing games on Xbox was like watching a movie on Netflix? For $10, £8 or AU$11 a month, the Xbox Game Pass would let tiy download any game of your choice instead. But the early days of the Xbox Game Pass were a bit too much like the early days of Netflix: chock-full of older content, but with almost none of the recent releases you'd really want. Today, that changes. Microsoft announced Tuesday that every first-party Xbox One exclusive will now be available to subscribers on launch day -- meaning that subscribers will never have to buy another Halo, Forza, Crackdown or Gears of War game again. (It's kind of like how Netflix spends billions on original shows like Stranger Things and The Crown , then lets you binge them right away and all at once.) Confirmed games so far include the highly-anticipated Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2 and Crackdown 3, but Microsoft specifically namedrops "future unannounced games" in the Halo, Forza and Gears of War franchises as well. So no, we're not just connecting the dots. Just note that Microsoft's only promising day-and-date releases for those games that are developed by Microsoft itself in its own internal studios -- which means high-profile multi-platform games (like the next Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto and your favorite sports titles) probably won't be on the list. You might be wondering: Since you don't actually own these games (and yet they live on your hard drive) what happens to them if you ever pause or cancel your subscription? Microsoft says they won't ever be forcibly deleted from your hard drive -- even if they're removed from the Game Pass library -- but you will lose access to them until you subscribe again. Microsoft also announced a new, 6-month Xbox Game Pass subscription card to be sold at partner retailers like GameStop for $60. The 6-month subscription card will be available March 20. The company offers a free 14-day trial if you want to give Xbox Game Pass a spin.