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The Creators Update: Beam Streaming, Increased Performance, And Fan-Requested Features Are Coming To Xbox One And Windows 10

Mike Ybarra, Head of Platform Engineering for Xbox gives an update on a number of features coming to Xbox One and Windows 10. Read the story here:

2017 is going to be a monumental year for gaming at Microsoft. Whether you play on Xbox One, a Windows 10 PC, your mobile phone, or anywhere you sign-in with Xbox Live, we’re going to make your gaming experiences easier, more social, and better with innovative hardware and software features throughout the year.

We’re focused on feedback from our fans and innovative, new ideas from our engineering teams that will enhance gaming on the Xbox One and will make Windows 10 the best operating system for PC gaming. In October, as a part of the Creators Update, we announced that Beam, gamer-created tournaments, and other fan requested features would be coming. We’re kicking off 2017 by introducing some of these features next week, with more updates to share in the coming months.

These updates are about four key themes: Streaming, Performance, People, and Competition. We’ll make it easier to stream than ever before, by making Beam a feature on Xbox One and Windows 10. We’ll improve the performance of your PC games through the all new Windows Game Mode. And we’ll release Arena on Xbox Live, where you can play in organized tournaments or create your own, making eSports available for everyone.

Instantly stream to Beam on Windows 10 and Xbox One
We’re building Beam as a feature of Xbox One and Windows 10, making Beam one of the easiest and quickest ways to stream your gameplay.

Beam will connect to your Xbox Live account, making it easy to stream your favorite games to Beam and your Xbox Live community. No extra software is needed and viewers anywhere will be able to watch your streams and interact with your broadcast. On a Windows 10 PC, press Windows + G to pull up the Game bar and click the broadcast button to start streaming. On Xbox One, you can start streaming with one button press from inside the Guide.

Increased performance in gaming
Our goal is to make Windows 10 the best Windows ever for gaming. With the Creators Update, we’re introducing a new feature called Game Mode. Windows Insiders will start seeing some of the visual elements for Game Mode this week, with the feature being fully operational in builds shortly thereafter. Our vision is for Game Mode to optimize your Windows 10 PC for increased performance in gaming. This is a big update for Windows; we’re looking forward to Insiders getting their hands on this new feature for further testing, and we’ll have much more to share on what it is and how it works soon, so stayed tuned.

In addition, every Xbox One will see an update coming to the Guide that will make it faster to complete common tasks. Through one press of the Xbox button on your controller, you’ll be able to pull up the newly enhanced Guide as an overlay on the left side of your screen no matter what you’re doing. In addition, we’re rebuilding the most popular multitasking experiences for speed and ease of access. For example, you’ll be able to start recording your GameDVR clips, adjust your recording length, and access your captures directly in the Guide. We’ll also add a new Achievement tracking overlay, Gamerscore Leaderboard, a new Cortana design, and controls for background music, making these features easier and use.

Better ways to find, stay in touch, and share with your gaming friends
We’re improving the ways you can stay in touch with friends on Xbox Live by making it easier to connect with people you care about on other social networks. We’re also adding updates to the Activity Feed, so you can connect and share more with your gaming friends. With additional improvements to Clubs and Looking For Group (LFG), like better moderator tools for Clubs and the ability to share LFG posts in your feed, we’re making it even easier to seek out players for any game on Xbox and Windows 10, and join communities of gamers like you.

You define the rules of competition
New tournaments are coming to Arena on Xbox Live, including those from professional tournament organizers like ESL and FACEIT. And starting with “World of Tanks” and “Killer Instinct”, you’ll be able to create your own Arena tournaments, with more supported titles coming over time. Once your tournament is created, you can invite your friends and members of your club can see it and join. And when the tournament ends, the results will be automatically recorded so you can share them on Xbox Live and across your social networks.

As part of the Creators Update, we’re just getting started. We have a few surprises on the horizon and more features to share with you soon. Get excited, stay tuned, and see you on Xbox Live!

Mike Ybarra
Gamertag: Qwik
Twitter: @XboxQwik

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Monkey Man wrote:

BID0 wrote:They've probably moved on to Scorpio which is why it looks barren, even by Xbox standards.

NickSCFC wrote:

BID0 wrote:They've probably moved on to Scorpio which is why it looks barren, even by Xbox standards.

That makes no sense, Phil Spencer said no non-VR Scorpio exclusives, no one left behind.

NickSCFC wrote:

BID0 wrote:They've probably moved on to Scorpio which is why it looks barren, even by Xbox standards.

That makes no sense, Phil Spencer said no non-VR Scorpio exclusives, no one left behind.

bear wrote:I don't think the video is unreasonable. MS didn't invest in first party devs when the 360 was at its strongest and they have suffered for it. To paraphrase what I've said before, the time for firefighting is now over and they need to start building up their library of exclusives to help the Xbox brand in both the console and PC space.

Photek wrote:Also who in their right mind would go and look for videos and bizarre excel sheets/graphs about a console they don't own, constantly criticise and most likely have never played?

Photek wrote:

bear wrote:I don't think the video is unreasonable. MS didn't invest in first party devs when the 360 was at its strongest and they have suffered for it. To paraphrase what I've said before, the time for firefighting is now over and they need to start building up their library of exclusives to help the Xbox brand in both the console and PC space.

It's light on fact and full of 'sources' said... Clickbait at its finest.
Also, Phantom Dust has not been cancelled as Phil
Literally tweeted about playing it 3 days ago along with Crackdown 3. Not saying they won't ever be cancelled but to say one is when it isn't and dubiously saying Crackdown 3 may never come out is poor journalism.

Also who in their right mind would go and look for videos and bizarre excel sheets/graphs about a console they don't own, constantly criticise and most likely have never played?

Photek wrote:MS have form for announcing games at E3 and releasing them that same year, they rarely show games years out and going by Phils tweets, he isn't keen on doing so ever again.

NickSCFC wrote:Microsoft ALWAYS show their big games a year or two in advance, being a platform holder who get console sales based on upcoming games they have to.

Trelliz wrote:

NickSCFC wrote:Microsoft ALWAYS show their big games a year or two in advance, being a platform holder who get console sales based on upcoming games they have to.

Not always. They tend to announce a new Forza at E3 which is then released in September, although there are often leaks beforehand; Forza Motorsport 7 was leaked by a wheel peripheral manufacturer, for example.