The Xbox September Replace is Coming Quickly: Stream Games from Your Console to Discord and Extra

We right here at Team Xbox are persevering with to make Xbox higher, refining our experiences and delivering brand-new options primarily based in your suggestions. This replace is bringing you the extremely requested capacity to stream your Xbox gameplay to your Discord associates! Additionally, we’re updating the variable refresh fee for Xbox Series X|S consoles, providing you with new locations to view and redeem Rewards, and offering new want listing notifications to trace your video games. We’re persevering with our dedication to security on our platform by rolling out Xbox voice reporting, which lets you report inappropriate in-game voice chat. On PC, now we have some nice updates that mean you can simply navigate your library and monitor the countdown to a sport launch. Which jogs my memory… just one day till the Starfield launch!

Stream your video games out of your Xbox to your Discord associates

We heard that you simply wished extra Discord options! Starting this week, you may stream gameplay straight out of your Xbox to your Discord associates. With a easy click on on “Stream your sport,” your Discord associates can now watch as you play your favourite console video games.

To get began, first hyperlink your Discord account. Then you may be a part of voice channels out of your Discord servers straight out of your Xbox console. To navigate there, press the Xbox button in your controller to open the information, scroll to Parties & chats, and choose Discord. Then scroll by way of your obtainable Discord servers, leap right into a voice channel with associates, and share your gameplay!!

This function is out simply in time for Starfield! Share as you make your customized character, uncover new planets, construct some superb ships, and uncover all there may be in Bethesda’s superb new universe. Be certain to affix the official Bethesda Discord channel to remain updated on the Starfield launch and extra!

Whether you might be planning to stream Starfield or any of your different favourite video games, it’s straightforward to get began and have enjoyable with your mates cheering you on.

Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) replace for Xbox Series X|S consoles

Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) permits your TV or monitor to dynamically alter its refresh fee primarily based on the body fee of the content material you’re viewing to offer you a easy, artifact-free expertise whilst you sport. However, should you’re utilizing your Xbox Series X|S for leisure experiences, you could not all the time need VRR enabled.

Starting this week, you may select the way you need VRR enabled in your Xbox Series X or Series S console. To choose your choice, go to General > TV & show choices > Video,after which go to the dropdown menu for VRR. You can choose if you need VRR to be “Always On,” “Gaming Only,” or “Off.”

New locations to view and redeem Rewards

Rewards at the moment are simpler to search out in your Xbox with the brand new Rewards tab. You can leap to them shortly by urgent the Xbox button to open the information, selecting Profile & system, choosing your profile, after which selecting My Rewards, the place you’ll discover your Xbox Game Pass Quests.

Additionally, now you can discover the Redeem Rewards catalog straight from the Rewards tab in your profile. To test it out, open the information and go to Profile & system > your profile > My Rewards.

Ask to affix your pal’s gaming session

Want to examine if there’s room in your pal’s gaming session earlier than becoming a member of the occasion? Now you may go over to your pal’s profile and choose the ‘Ask to affix sport’ choice.

Your pal will obtain a notification of your request to affix, they usually can reply again to you with a sport invite, a celebration invite, or a message.

Xbox voice reporting – help a safer group for all Xbox gamers

 In July we introduced platform-wide voice reporting to offer gamers the choice to seize and report inappropriate in-game voice chats. Voice reporting equips Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One gamers with the power to seize a 60-second video clip of an in-game voice incident that they consider violates Xbox Community Standards and submit it as proof to the Xbox Safety Team for assessment.

This function is purpose-built to help the big variety of in-game interactions between gamers and works throughout 1000’s of video games that supply in-game multiplayer voice chat, together with Xbox 360 backward appropriate titles. Voice reporting is obtainable beginning this week to Xbox console gamers in choose English-language markets (U.S., UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand). 

New want listing notifications – Microsoft Store on Xbox

Getting updates in your want listing is getting simpler. Want to be the primary to get the sport when it’s obtainable? Now you will get a notification when your want listing video games go from pre-order to launch, and when your want listing video games enter Game Pass.

The new want listing notifications will present up within the information and as a pop-up to let you already know when your want listing video games can be found. In Settings > Preferences > Store notifications, you may determine if you wish to see notifications within the information, when your want listing gadgets are launched, when they’re obtainable with Game Pass, and extra.

Easily pair new equipment to your Xbox console

You can now simply pair new equipment to your Xbox console with out having to maneuver out of your sofa to push your Xbox console’s Pair button. To get began, open the Xbox Accessories app, and use the brand new “Connect a Device” choice.

PC Gaming | Xbox app on PC expertise updates

We simply up to date the Xbox app on PC with new options, quicker efficiency, and celebrations for upcoming video games. There are additionally enhancements to sport particulars web page load occasions so you will get to the set up button even quicker, along with new fonts, button kinds, and animations throughout the app. You’ll additionally see updates to your Library and Installation queue, together with filters for Installed, Owned, and In Game Pass, so that you could shortly discover your favourite video games. Other updates to the Xbox app on PC embrace a collapsible Play Later listing, whereas the Installation queue now has a consolidated settings menu to make it even simpler to handle your most popular set up drive, automated updates, and extra.

The sport launch countdown is again so you may monitor a sport’s launch to the minute – no extra guessing! You can discover the countdown on a sport’s particulars web page earlier than it releases.

Are you prepared to leap into Starfield? The Xbox app’s launch display has a brand new Starfield-inspired key artwork to have fun Bethesda’s first new universe in 25 years.

You can go to the official Xbox app on PC help website right here to see an inventory of all of the modifications included on this launch.

Help form the way forward for Xbox

Stay tuned to Xbox Wire for future updates and all the most recent and best Xbox associated information. For help associated to Xbox updates, go to the official Xbox Support website.

We love listening to from the group, whether or not you will have a suggestion for a brand new function that you simply’d wish to see added, otherwise you need to give suggestions on current options that would use some enchancment. From sport seize and share enhancements, to serving to video games load quicker, new methods to attach together with your gaming group, and a lot extra, we’re all the time listening and searching for methods to enhance Xbox experiences for gamers all over the world. If you’d like to assist create the way forward for Xbox and get early entry to new options, obtain the Xbox Insider Hub in your Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, or Windows PC at the moment. Let us know what you assume!