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by kazanova_Frankenstein » Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:42 pm

rinks wrote:I mean, it's basically Forza Horizon for lawn mowers.



Flymo Horizon

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by Monkey Man » Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:48 pm

Tunic was great, need it asap.

MS will be happy -

twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1404142813214756866


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by Monkey Man » Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:05 pm

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ID@Xbox Summer Game Demo Fest Showcases 40 Games

It’s time! We are excited to showcase 40 awesome demos of unreleased games on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. Just like last year’s Summer Game Demo event, you can download and play these in the comfort of your own home between June 15 – 21.

Demos will be playable starting today, and we encourage you to continue to check the Xbox Dashboard on your console as more will continue to become available throughout the week! Keep in mind that most of these demos are an early look at gameplay and may not represent the full game at their release, including the availability in each country as developers continue to update and refine their title ahead of launch.

We’re also excited to share the 12 newly announced games below are coming to Xbox!

Arietta of Spirits (Third Spirit Games)

• BattleCakes (Volcano Bean)

• Button City (Subliminal)

• Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (Manekoware)

• Dreamers (PlaySys)

• Faraday Protocol (Red Koi Box)

• Get Packed: Fully Loaded (Coatsink)

• Paint the Town Red (South East Games)

• Tanknarok (Polyblock Studio)

• The Strange Story Of Brian Fisher: Chapter 2 (Intetic)

• The Tale of Bistun (Black Cube Games)

• Wreck Out (Four5Six)

Along with those titles, there are a great variety of games that will be available to try! Below is a list of games, and their developers, participating in the ID@Xbox Summer Game Demo Fest:

• A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube)

• Antipole DX (Saturnine Games)

• Arietta of Spirits (Third Spirit Games)

• BattleCakes (Volcano Bean)

• Black Book (Morteshka)

• Button City (Subliminal)

• Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four (Elder Games)

• Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered (Manekoware)

• Clone Drone in the Danger Zone (Doborog)

• Clouzy! (Tinymoon)

• ConnecTank (YummyYummyTummy)

• Death Trash (Crafting Legends)

• Deathtrap Dungeon: The Golden Room (Good Gate Media)

• Dreamers (PlaySys)

• Echo Generation (Cococucumber)

• Faraday Protocol (Red Koi Box)

• Fractal Space (Haze Games)

• Get Packed: Fully Loaded (Coatsink)

• Godstrike (Overpowered)

• Justice Sucks: Recharged (Samurai Punk)

• Lake (Gamious)

• Lawn Mowing Simulator (Skyhook Games)

• Mad Streets (Craftshop)

• Mayhem Brawler (Hero Concept)

• Paint the Town Red (South East Games)

• Princess Farmer (Samobee Games)

• Sable (Shedworks)

• Sail Forth (David Evans Games)

• Strings Theory (BeautifulBee)

• Tanknarok (Polyblock Studio)

• Teacup (Smarto Club)

• The Eternal Cylinder (ACE Team)

• The Riftbreaker (EXOR Studios)

• The Strange Story Of Brian Fisher: Chapter 2 (Intetic)

• The Tale of Bistun (Black Cube Games)

• Trigger Witch (Rainbite)

• Tunic (Isometricorp)

• Wreck Out (Four5Six)

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/06/15/ ... -40-games/

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by kazanova_Frankenstein » Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:38 pm

I saw a GB quick look at The Eternal Cylinder. It looked properly insane.

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by KingK » Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:47 pm

As I don’t have any grass to cut front or back of my house (all block paved by previous owner), maybe Lawn Mowing simulator is the game to scratch that itch and fill that gap in my life?

At the very least I can game for an hour and tell the missus I’m cutting the grass!

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by Edd » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:09 pm

Lawn Mowing Simulator is as close as millennials and zoomers can get to having a real lawn to mow.

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by Monkey Man » Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:14 pm

June Xbox Update: Party Chat Accessibility, Xbox App Official Posts, and More

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Party chat now supports transcribing speech to text and text to speech.
Official posts from your favorite games now show up in the Xbox app.
The new “Move groups” button rearranges your groups and lets you choose which one shows up first.

Team Xbox continues to listen to your feedback and is focused on building experiences with you at the center. This month, we’re excited to announce a few more updates as we continue to refine the experience and add brand new features. Our latest update includes party chat with speech-to-text and text-to-speech, official posts from your favorite games in the Xbox mobile app, the ability to reorder groups in the guide, and more.

Party Chat: Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech

At Team Xbox, we believe gaming should be inclusive, approachable, and accessible to everyone. That includes making it easy for gamers to play and communicate together. Party chat, used by gamers around the world to talk to their friends while playing, now supports converting speech into text and text into speech. Each of these features can be used to help gamers who are deaf or hard of hearing and/or cannot or choose not to speak.

Speech-to-Text: By enabling speech-to-text transcription, gamers can have all words spoken by the people in a party converted into text that’s displayed in an adjustable overlay on top of gameplay.
Text-to-Speech: By enabling text-to-speech synthesis, gamers can type into party text chat and have that read by a synthetic voice to the rest of the people in the party (with a choice of several voices per language).
Both speech-to-text and text-to-speech functionality can be enabled in Settings under Ease of Access > Game and chat transcription. When in a party, you can also access this screen under Options > Configure Ease of Access settings.

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Official Posts in the Xbox Mobile App

The Xbox app on Android and iOS keeps you connected to your gaming community. With the app, gamers can easily share their game clips and screenshots, chat with their friends, track their achievements, and even play games from their console with remote play. Over the course of this month, you will start to be able to see official posts from your favorite games. The posts are viewable from the app homepage and you can like, share, or comment on them. Stay tuned for more updates to the Xbox mobile app in the near future.

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Reorder Groups in the Guide

Groups let you create lists in the guide for quick access to your favorite games and apps. Now there’s a new “Move groups” button built right into the “My games & apps” screen in the guide, letting you customize the order of your groups. To use it, open the guide, select My games & apps, and then select Move groups to rearrange your groups.

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Review and Approve Your Family’s Cross Network Play Requests

Family settings on Xbox empowers you to decide how people interact with your family’s gaming. We continue to innovate family settings on Xbox to be as unique as families are today and support their needs. To that end, we’ve made it easier on your console to review and approve your kids’ requests to play with people on other game platforms and Windows PCs. Kids who use Xbox child accounts as part of a family group can now ask for their parent or caregiver’s approval to play games like Minecraft with others who play on other gaming services. Parents can approve or decline their kids’ request using the Xbox Family Settings app on Android or iOS or right from the console.

Help Shape the Future of Xbox

Stay tuned to Xbox Wire for future updates and all the latest and greatest Xbox related news. For support related to Xbox updates, visit support.xbox.com. If you’d like to help create the future of Xbox and get access to early features, download the Xbox Insider Hub on your Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, or Windows 10 PC today. Let us know what you think – we’re always listening!

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/06/15/ ... ox-update/

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by Monkey Man » Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:44 pm

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PostRe: Xbox Chat - June Dashboard Update & 40 new indie demos inc Tunic out now.
by LewisD » Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:53 pm

Guys, I fixed the forums, there was some sort of a glitch in a few of the threads:

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by Monkey Man » Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:17 pm

Sorry, it just made me laugh as the 1st reply. Won’t happen again.

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by Photek » Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:48 pm

LewisD wrote:Guys, I fixed the forums, there was some sort of a glitch in a few of the threads:

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:lol:

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by Photek » Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:49 pm

Called this a while ago.

twitter.com/klobrille/status/1404811528109531138


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by rinks » Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:53 pm

Faraday Protocol is very much my kind of thing. Though I suspect it wants to be The Talos Principle, right down to the name, hopefully the puzzles will stand up in their own right. The demo isn’t very long, so I’d recommend giving it a try.

Deathtrap Dungeon seems to be an FMV recreation of the Fighting Fantasy book. Looks very nice, but… not really a game. Again, a short demo, so have a look.

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PostRe: Xbox Chat - June Dashboard Update & 40 new indie demos inc Tunic out now.
by rinks » Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:54 pm

Photek wrote:Called this a while ago.

twitter.com/klobrille/status/1404811528109531138


Makes perfect sense. They do it on Switch, after all.

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by Photek » Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:56 pm

Monkey Man wrote:Sorry, it just made me laugh as the 1st reply. Won’t happen again.

That’s not actually him is it? :dread:

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PostRe: Xbox Chat - June Dashboard Update & 40 new indie demos inc Tunic out now.
by rinks » Tue Jun 15, 2021 11:40 pm

Just spent half an hour mowing a lawn. Only took out two flowers. Pretty good.

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by kazanova_Frankenstein » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:14 am

rinks wrote:Faraday Protocol is very much my kind of thing. Though I suspect it wants to be The Talos Principle, right down to the name, hopefully the puzzles will stand up in their own right. The demo isn’t very long, so I’d recommend giving it a try.

Deathtrap Dungeon seems to be an FMV recreation of the Fighting Fantasy book. Looks very nice, but… not really a game. Again, a short demo, so have a look.


:shock: I will absolutely have a look. Thanks for mentioning it.

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by Photek » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:39 am

I kicked off the upgrade for The Elder Scolls online (83gb) and had a go this morning. 2 things stand out, first off the load times are MASSIVLEY reduced, I reckon maybe 5 seconds to character screen and 5 more after that to the game. It launched on Series X into fidelity mode but I switched it to performance and yeah, it's hugely improved. Looked gorgeous but only played a small bit, water reflections were much improved as well as draw distance.

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by Frank » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:44 am

Just the improvements to the loading times kinda makes me want to get back to it. It used to take absolutely forever :dread: Wish it did cross-platform multiplayer, though. All my buds bought it on PS4 :fp:

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by Garth » Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:05 am

Been playing a lot of ESO on Xbox lately and yeah, the 60fps performance mode is a huge improvement. So much better than the 30fps fidelity mode!


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