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[Punished Miku]

The Invincible $16.50
Harold Halibut $17.50
Wanted: Dead: $6
Lil' Gator Game: $10
Shadow Tactics + new Expansion (Deluxe edition on both): $27

 

[adamsapple]

Massive sale with over a thousand things, but the vast majority seem to be indie stuff.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Releases Saturday

 

[Plies]

No.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Respect to the fans who are still passionate about this stuff

Xbox Fan Shares Fresh Dashboard Concept That Cleans Up The Home Screen

We want it!!

www.purexbox.com

 

[xrnzaaas]

MS is never going to get rid of the sponsored tiles on Xbox's main screen. The current dash is beyond awful with how little space is reserved for your last played games vs. how much space there is for the ads and the store tile. And how there's only a tiny icon at the top to take you to your actual library.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

MS is never going to get rid of the sponsored tiles on Xbox's main screen. The current dash is beyond awful with how little space is reserved for your last played games vs. how much space there is for the ads and the store tile. And how there's only a tiny icon at the top to take you to your actual library.

Do you remember the one they planned to introduce a couple of years ago?

This

Microsoft's new Xbox dashboard design is basically just a store front

Ads, ads, ads, and more ads.

www.windowscentral.com

It got a ton of negative reactions and they scrapped it.

Sad thing is I noticed at the time a couple of individuals who work on this stuff liking tweets bemoaning the negative feedback.

Xbox has had a ton of great ideas and feedback for over five years for these kind of things. No excuse it's as bland as it is. They are lucky people still give a shit about it.

 

[nikolino840]

 

[adamsapple]

Respect to the fans who are still passionate about this stuff

Xbox Fan Shares Fresh Dashboard Concept That Cleans Up The Home Screen

We want it!!

www.purexbox.com

I wish the homepage was a bit more customizable, too.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

I wish the homepage was a bit more customizable, too.

Agreed and
The themes are cool and of course free is appreciated, I wish they were more like PlayStation 4 tho, more animated and optional music.

 

[Antwix]

Full Summer sale is now live

 

[Punished Miku]

These look wild lol

 

[Punished Miku]

Super Crazy Rhythm Castle $5
Gargoyles $5

 

[Punished Miku]

Survivalist: Invisible Strain $8.99

The demo won me over. Picked it up.

 

[Baemono]

Question: if I was buying a Series S, would I have a possibility to play remotely without connecting the console to the TV ? Like on my Mac, or an iPad

 

[Punished Miku]

Question: if I was buying a Series S, would I have a possibility to play remotely without connecting the console to the TV ? Like on my Mac, or an iPad

It just has an HDMI out and a power cord. Not 100% sure what you mean I guess. Never had a Mac. Some games you own and most Gamepass games can be streamed through a browser.

 

[Baemono]

It just has an HDMI out and a power cord. Not 100% sure what you mean I guess. Never had a Mac. Some games you own and most Gamepass games can be streamed through a browser.

Such as remote play, like the PS Portal does, or Chiaki on the Steam Deck (or Steam Link, but I don't really like Steam Link, it's super clunky)

 

[Punished Miku]

Such as remote play, like the PS Portal does, or Chiaki on the Steam Deck (or Steam Link, but I don't really like Steam Link, it's super clunky)

I don't think they really have a function for running the system and doing local streaming like that. Mostly just the cloud compatible games, and those don't need to run off your system.

 

[Antwix]

Such as remote play, like the PS Portal does, or Chiaki on the Steam Deck (or Steam Link, but I don't really like Steam Link, it's super clunky)

Xbox Remote Play | Xbox

Play games from your console straight to your PC, phone or tablet over the internet with Xbox remote play.

www.xbox.com

Yeah you just gotta enable it in the Xbox settings. I've never tried it since I've never been a big fan of streaming/portable play so I'm not sure if every game works but I think it does.

Fun fact and kind of unrelated, but you can also go the other way around using Xbox as a client for streaming from PC using Moonlight.

 

[Baemono]

Antwix thanks !

Punished Miku

 

[adamsapple]

Man, FF13 is on sale in the UK for just 4 queen bucks, I've never seen it go down this much in the US store

 

[adamsapple]

In some positive news, Xbox has made accessing dev mode free, used to be $20 before for a lifetime license.

Folks can follow some very easy to follow online tutorials to set up Retroarch and other emulators to turn an Xbox into an incredibly powerful emulation machine.

 

[Punished Miku]

Looks like Conscript is now Play Anywhere. $11 currently

 

[Cfh123]

I recently got a nice TV. It replaced my entry level TV from 2020. My new TV is a Samsung QLED. As with all Samsung TV's, it does not have Dolby Vision. I'd describe it as a mid-upper end TV.

My only means of playing physical media is with my Xbox Series X. I find it a hassle to use the Xbox with blu-ray disks because:

• The auto-resume usually doesn't work. I understand however that can be a problem with the disc, not the player.
• Rewinding and fast-forwarding is a pain.
• I got a remote-control style controller for the Xbox but still find it a hassle to use the Xbox to play discs.

For those with physical media, have you stuck to the Xbox as your media player? Or gone to a dedicated blu ray player?

I have my eye on the Sony 700K, a budget-friendly and fairly new 4K blu-ray player.

The picture quality of discs played from my Xbox look nice on my new TV, but I suppose could be better. It is mostly the hassle of using a game console to play blu-rays that motivates me to get a dedicated player.

 

[adamsapple]

I recently got a nice TV. It replaced my entry level TV from 2020. My new TV is a Samsung QLED. As with all Samsung TV's, it does not have Dolby Vision. I'd describe it as a mid-upper end TV.

My only means of playing physical media is with my Xbox Series X. I find it a hassle to use the Xbox with blu-ray disks because:

• The auto-resume usually doesn't work. I understand however that can be a problem with the disc, not the player.
• Rewinding and fast-forwarding is a pain.
• I got a remote-control style controller for the Xbox but still find it a hassle to use the Xbox to play discs.

For those with physical media, have you stuck to the Xbox as your media player? Or gone to a dedicated blu ray player?

I have my eye on the Sony 700K, a budget-friendly and fairly new 4K blu-ray player.

The picture quality of discs played from my Xbox look nice on my new TV, but I suppose could be better. It is mostly the hassle of using a game console to play blu-rays that motivates me to get a dedicated player.

I've never actually used the Series X as a media player, can't help you there firsthand but from what I've read online, the PS5 is generally considered a more reliable blu ray player, the SX's blu ray playback lacks some features comparatively.