Xbox One Halo 5 bundle available for pre-order

The team at Microsoft working on the Xbox One home console is announcing that the recently reveal over-the-air TV functionality for the device will not be available to those who do not have an external hard drive attached.

If you can solve the latency and input lag issues, there are good reasons to do game rendering offline rather than locally. The good folks over at DualShockers captured the cloudless beauty of the new Xbox One consoles and controllers with every little detail, showing how they look in the flesh. Xbox One will see a user interface upgrade that’s powered by Windows 10.

Xbox’s Gamescom 2015 press conference wouldn’t be complete if there wasn’t some new Halo news, and whew, did Microsoft Studios and 343 Industries deliver.

One newly announced aspect of the backwards compatibility feature is that all games that are given away for free as part of the 360’s “Games With Gold” program will be backwards compatible.

Managing your digital games wasn’t supposed to be a problem for the Xbox One – Microsoft once said that the console would “make storage management automatic” – but game installs just keep getting bigger, making add-ons like Seagate’s Game Drive necessary. If you have the Xbox app on Windows 10 you can also stream television to other devices, which can then be downloaded and watched whether you’re online or not.

A new way to chat.

Coming November 2015. Over 100 games.

It seems Xbox 360 wasn’t forgotten by Microsoft entirely. All in all, a good show for indie devs and their games.

No-at least not according to Unangst: “We are not intending to compete with Steam”, he told me, “If anything, we want Steam to be even more successful-they’ve done great things for PC gamers in terms of having a single store”.

The collector’s edition of Halo 5: Guardians is also included in the package, and this comes with two special DLC packs, along with Agent Locke’s Spartan armor set that you can use during gameplay. Today we announced a new Xbox Chatpad.