Expected this week, Microsoft are releasing a summer update to a limited Xbox Preview audience for Xbox One, which among other highlights, officially brings Cortana to Xbox One. And in the coming weeks they’ll start to release the update to the Xbox app (beta). They’re really excited about this update as it lays the foundation to bring together more people and more games across devices through Xbox Live.
The summer update will be the first of two major updates. In addition to Cortana on Xbox One, highlights include the start of a unified Xbox and Windows Stores and the introduction of top PC games with Game Hubs on Xbox Live. Another massive feature has to be the new My games & apps layout which lets gamers scroll vertically and change the size of icons. This is huge.
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.