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April's Xbox One Firmware Update: Here's What The New Friends Online Notification Looks Like

GearNuke: "Xbox One is going to get a new update in April, among the list of new features, friends online notifications is one of them. You can catch a glimpse of the new friends online notifications system now."

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GarrusVakarian3667d ago (Edited 3667d ago )

Nice, im glad we will be able to turn off friend notifications. I will have them on at all times apart from if i want to sit down and really immerse myself in a game, i would turn them off before hand and then just re-enable them when im done.

But that should already be a "feature" of the console, same goes for the PS4 too. All these basic features that are still missing.....

Philaroni3667d ago

Ya I was kind of shocked how much both are missing, not getting a notification on PS4 when a friend gets on is kind of odd. They have notifications for just about everything else but not that. I know all that will come down the road though so its not an issue. I expect them both to get some major updates later this year after E3.

georgeenoob3667d ago (Edited 3667d ago )

I will be turning the notification off unless it is favorites only cause out of the 90 or so friends on my list, I'm only curious if a few of them are online. It sucked on my 360 cause I had to turn ALL notifications off and decided it was worth not hearing the awesome achievement sound than to keep getting annoyed by constant friend notifications.

LexHazard793667d ago

Well just from what I read in your comment. Not having it is not a big deal since you turn it off! Is it that distracting that you had to turn it off? It only comes for a few secs! Maybe I just dont mind it I guess.

Philaroni3667d ago

Its not really an issue just find it funny it was not there is all. Its all minor stuff. Both of the OS's are very good.

GarrusVakarian3667d ago (Edited 3667d ago )

Clearly you didn't read my comment properly. I said it will be on at *all times* APART from if i want to play something uninterrupted (like a singleplayer game). Calm down with all those exclamation points and mind your own business, lmao.

-EvoAnubis-3667d ago

When this feature gets added to the PS4, I'll be turning it off instantly. It was annoying enough only having the 100 people on your friends the PS3 allowed; can you imagine that with six or seven hundred?

When I want to see who's online, I'll go look at the list.

Gamer19823667d ago

If you can set groups and then only see when certain groups are online that would be better as there are certain people I would like to see when online like my brother etc..

mhunterjr3667d ago

' including the ability to filter notifications to all friends, favorites only, or disable friends online notifications altogether'

If the ps4 version is anything like the xb1 version, you would choose to only get notifications when your favorite people sign on, not everyone in your list.

Antwan3k3667d ago

Nice to have the options though.. And with the Xbox One giving you the option to only see when your "favorites" come online, I don't really see any downsides

-EvoAnubis-3667d ago

Of course it's nice to have options; I didn't say this wasn't a good feature. I just said that I won't be using it.

AnEwGuY3667d ago

When are they bringing avatars to the X1? It's bad enough there's no support to migrate my old 360 avatar to the X1, but I really want the ability to create a new one, using the tech in the new Kinect Sports Rivals game.

Ashby_JC3667d ago

Ours there go to your profile. It's in the section where you choose your gamer pic. You have the option to use your avatar.

AnEwGuY3667d ago

That's not what I mean...I'm talking about a true, animated, customizable avatar, just like on the 360....not the gamer pic. I already have my profile/gamer pic set to my old avatar.

LexHazard793667d ago

I gotta say the new gamer pics on Xbox One look sick tho!

GearSkiN3667d ago

the whole avatar is a waste of time, hope they fix a lot of things when e3 rolls around,

xCOWBOYx78x3667d ago

Still can't earn Achievements offline and still cant see whats on my HDD, WHY !?!?!?

GearSkiN3667d ago

just now notice since i dont msg that much anymore, why the hell u cant do voice msg???

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Hammerwatch II Will Stop Dilly-Dallying and Head to Xbox and PS4 on April 23

"Hammerwatch II's journey to Xbox has been long and perilous. After first launching on Steam in the fall of 2023, the game finally turned up on PlayStation 5 last December. Since then, Xbox gamers who enjoyed the original Hammerwatch and the sublime Heroes of Hammerwatch have been anxiously awaiting their turn at the long-promised sequel. At last, the wait is nearly over because Hammerwatch II will hit Xbox and PlayStation 4 on April 23," says Co-Optimus.

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Sea of Thieves Welcomes 40 Million Players

Joe 'Three Sheets' Neate (Executive Producer): "As I’m sure you can imagine, when it comes to Sea of Thieves my days are full of numbers. Development costs, active servers, days until the next update… Sometimes, though, a truly extraordinary number stands out – a number like 40 million, which I’m incredibly pleased to say is the number of pirates who’ve now set sail in Sea of Thieves!"

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darthv7211h ago

Garrr... more people to walk the plank and send to Davey Jones locker.

would have been funny to release this on talk like a pirate day.

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TrueRican696h ago

I pre-order the premium edition for my PS5 today

Crows902h ago(Edited 2h ago)

40 million have set sail...that's great. How many are sailing now? Monthly active users....when it actually matters. How many people purchased the game is another important number.

Gamingsince19812h ago

You don't get numbers like that from MS mouth pieces, they just like to say stuff like "this game was looked at 129 million time, the biggest amount of people browsing a game of this genre on xbox gamepass ever in the last 3 weeks compared to before gamepass was out (small print only 2 million bothered playing longer than 20 seconds and only 100 people are playing it concurrently)

It's all smoke and mirrors

nibblo2h ago

There are usually around 10,000 concurrent users on Steam not counting Xbox or PS but really it doesn't matter as long as there are enough people on the servers to play which there always were and will be for a long time now with the PS players coming on board. Same goes for how many people bought it and how many are on GP, we aren't the accountants of these console companies so why would we care?

Hofstaderman1h ago

Reporting on MAU stats is very misleading. Other companies publish units sold, MS cannot or will not due to Game Pass. We all know that their prior startegies have not panned out so now they have to actually sell games on other consoles. In any case, SoT is doing impressive preorders on PS5 and will very likely motivate Satya to release more games other than the four indicated games on their competitor's consoles. Take note Phil is radio silent....

Abear211h ago

40 Mil across Stream, Windows 10, and Xbox. Healthy numbers for sure, but when PC is the biggest platform, I expected more. It’ll be interesting to see how it does on PlayStation. Very well could be double that player count in 6 months with PS too. It’s crazy for developers to skip the most popular platform, not sure why they’d want to, but they must have had their rea$ons.

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PAX East 2024: Warframe Devstream 178 Q&A With Megan Everett - Lords of Gaming

Devstream 178 was filled with so many cool announcements for the game's community, and were able to ask a lot of questions about Warframe: 1999 and more!

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