Microsoft today unveiled a special live stream to help gamers celebrate Xbox’s 20th anniversary. If you missed the stream, don’t worry – we have details of all the major announcements you missed!
Thanks for the memories
To help remember the good old days of the Xbox, Microsoft brought in former executive Robbie Bach. He retired a decade ago and didn’t bother to provide some juicy details, including the fact that Microsoft originally placed the business on games and that some of the bigwigs within the company didn’t think the system was. game would be successful.
Next documentary
Of course, there’s only so much Xbox history that Microsoft could pack in one short stream. Gamers who want a much longer look into the company’s history can use multiple platforms to stream a six-part documentary coming December 13th called Power Up: The Xbox Story.
Greater compatibility with previous versions
Backward compatibility has become a major focus of Microsoft. And over 70 new BC games have been added to date. This includes the Max Payne series, Viva Piñata: Party Animals, TimeSplitters 2, and many more.
Dwayne Johnson announces the Xbox Vault lottery
One of the strangest elements of the stream included a promotion for the Netflix movie Red notice, complete with the appearance of its star Dwayne Johnson. Johnson announced a sweepstakes called the Xbox Vault, in which you can win prizes including an oil painting of “The Rock”, illustrating when he revealed the first Xbox on the CES stage in 2001. The sweepstakes will run now until as of November 24 on XboxVault.com.
All about Halo
Today’s biggest streaming star was Master Chief. We saw a brief glimpse of the live-action Alone series coming to Paramount +, and we had a brief discussion of Halo Infinite and a symphonic presentation of Halo music set in the series’ scenes.
All this led to the most important news. While Halo Infinite won’t release as a full game until December 8, free-to-play multiplayer is available today. So whether you’re on PC, Xbox One, or Xbox Series X | S, you can start climbing the ranks right now!
Now, if anyone needs me, I’ll start the Halo Infinite multiplayer download!
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