The Xbox One UI also supports Kinect-based hand gestures, of course, which seem much more streamlined and integrated than on the Xbox 360. You wave your open-palmed hand in front of the screen to get a little pointer icon that creates a gentle highlighting effect over whatever option is underneath it. Close your hand into a fist to grab the interface and drag it left or right, or push your palm forward to gently select an option, as if you were pushing an oversized button.
Pure Xbox writes: "Microsoft has appointed Alan Hartman as the new Head of Xbox Game Studios. If you're not familiar with Hartman, he's been part of Forza Motorsport team at Turn 10 Studios since 2005.
Over the past couple of years he's led as Corporate Vice President of Forza and Fable, and before this was the Forza Studio Head at Turn 10."
Seems like a solid choice considering Forza and FH have been the only high quality studio, consistently for Microsoft.
What a nice reward for the latest Forza, which is probably the most mediocre of the lot so far.
Still think Rod Fergusson would have been a good shout. He's got a track record of fixing stuff and I assume he's still at Blizzard.
Not heard of this guy but I feel like anyone is better than Matt Booty
I thought Dan Greenawalt was head of Turn10 though (although I noticed he didn't do the on stage stuff at e3 this year). Is he not there anymore?
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This is the best news I've heard since the last piece of xbox news!
Go team xbox! Xbox will rule the world!
He's over overlooked The Forza games which have been consistently good through our the years. Hopefully he has the same eye for quality for the rest if the studios going forward.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps has crossed 2 million players since its release. This news comes via an infographic shared by Moon Studios.
That's kind of bad. When it's a multiplat and it's free on gamepass also. PLUS it's a sequel, it's not a new IP. The IP has already been established. Not to mention it's a quality game. Just kind of sad really.
Continued success Moon Studios, Ori is a fantastic IP and the game is one of the years best. Waiting for your next project reveal.
Not bad. I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but I really enjoyed the first game.
Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Two set to adopt elite battle tactic in these troubled times for traditional gaming consoles
"Troubled times for traditional gaming consoles " lol a little dramatic wouldn't you say?!?! No I imagine if Sony continues what they are doing along with everything else that they are bringing to the table, they'll be just fine. Latency is a thing and it's the biggest hurdle for streaming.
You can't just magically say something and it happens. The Stadia is in for an uphill battle because of latency and the fact that quality games take talented people to make and it takes years to do this.
Film and tv are completely different animals compared to games especially games with the graphical fidelity that games have now.
Again it's not hard for me to see the PS5 being extremely successful because at this point Sony has so many talented devsdevs and those aforementioned studios and with it being BC and having a connected cross gen system they will be going into next gen strong.
All they need to do is cook up some popcorn. Stadia is going to crash and burn all by itself, I don't think I've seen anyone talk about it as a serious contender. Like the Ouya it's just a laughing stock.
I cant wait to stream games to my mobile device....... for free from my Xbox.
I know Google expect backlash from hardcore gamers but they're dreaming if they think casuals will buy full price games, pay extra for 4k and experience latency.
The whole thing is better pitched as a complimentary service to an existing platform like PS or Xbox.
Imo of course.
What troubled times? Don't listen to the BS Google is spewing. They haven't even established themselves in the gaming market yet. I don't see their PoS with no exclusives selling very well.
iOS 7, Windows 8, Xbox One. It's a flat, texture-less, world.
"Xbox One interface a clean slate inspired by Windows 8"
I would have never guessed it.
I knew it! Windows 8 Lite! Fire up an Xbone and it becomes a cheap knockoff PC to the naked eye!
M$ have truly built a machine to troll people with!
In tonight's news.. I just barfed in my mouth,.Twice!
And..
Microsoft is going to make waving cool again.
Just don't wave to people or they'll think you are waving them off. Shoo fly!
Can I just say Xbox rollover!
Then throw it a Bone.
And feed it me. While I float on a cloud spiritually.
Forever me and you Xbox... . . . ...
What is the voice of a Xbox when it tells me to go home?
Answer is Steven Spielberg.(walks home)
What is it with people on here. Why s it a bad thing that Windows 8, Windows Phone xbox 360 and xbox one look the same and work in some of the same ways?
One part of the xbox OS is windows RT which going forward will let apps made for windows 8 work on the xbox one too and Microsoft are also going to have Windows Phone running on RT as well. By doing this it adds a log more + then - points to all 3 os's and devices.
Microsoft offer more services than Nintendo and Sony and people in the tech world have been saying for a long time the biggest issue Microsoft have is they offer lots of services but none of them are linked and until they can link them they will have issues. Now Microsoft are looking to link them all you now say you don't like it. Ok you might not like the look of the OS but that's choice I don't like the look of Android as it looks and acts to much like Windows Mobile and I had that 7 years ago.
The IT world is now also getting a simple look because we are getting more and more touch screen devices and having a simple look is the best way to use a touch device. This is the reason why Apple hit the ground running with the Iphone because it was the 1st simple and easy to use smart phone and the masses need this and that's what they like.