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Xbox One is getting a completely redesigned dashboard later this year, featuring a vertical design separated into four different tabs, including a new Quick Menu, Home, Community and Store.
Cortana will also be introduced with the new dashboard, allowing players to find friends and start parties using their voice and if you are interested, Avatars are also coming back with a new modernised look for Xbox One.
At 5pm British Time today (15th June), gaming’s biggest event of the year, E3, officially kicked off for 2015. Half an hour later, it was Microsoft taking the stage for the first Press presentation of this year’s expo.
The Redmond-based company started their 90-minute session this year with some big guns, in a World Première showcasing game-play footage of Halo 5: Guardians. Microsoft are bigging this up as the first Halo title to be exclusive to XBox One, and for the next five minutes we were treated to a sample of the kind of guns blazing action we can expect from the title. Courtesy of Kotaku, we bring you the footage of the entire five-minute playthrough:
Halo 5: Guardians will be in stores from October 27, 2015.
What happens when a service designed to keep your passwords safe gets hacked itself?
Password-management service LastPass announced today that it “discovered and blocked suspicious activity” on its network on Friday that caused user email addresses, authentication hashes, password reminders and server per user salts to be compromised.
While the news suggests that some user’s email addresses may now be known to criminals and that hackers may now have useful hints to passwords for other sites you may be using, LastPass says that there is no evidence that any data from any user’s vault was taken; or that any accounts were logged into illegitimately before the hack was detected. This means that any of the passwords actually stored on the server have not fallen into the wrong hands, so there should be no need to reset passwords for every site you stored data for. LastPass is confident that its encryption is strong enough to make attacking those stolen hashes with any speed difficult.
Nevertheless, when it comes to LastPass itself, it is highly recommended you change your Master Password right now to ensure those vaults can’t potentially be accessed later. Although the company’s official recommendation is that you only need to change your master password if it’s weak or use that password on multiple sites, in any case of hacking, being paranoid is often the best approach. The company also recommends that users who don’t have two-factor authentication enabled on their accounts do so now, which sounds like sound advice.
The phrase “rapturous applause” is often misused when describing audience reactions to E3 Announcements, but today at E3, one announcement by Microsoft got the crowd so hyped that even describing the applause as “rapturous” could be an understatement.
That’s because Microsoft just announced a new feature to the XBox One console that long-term XBox fans have been asking for from pretty much day one of the console’s release. That’s right folks – backwards compatibility is here!
Microsoft has revealed during Day 0 of E3 today that the XBox One is receiving software to allow as many XBox 360 games as possible to be played on the XBox One. Initially only 200 games will be immediately compatible with the new hardware, but the company intends to increase this number over time.
The compatible XBox 360 games will get their own listing in the XBox Live Store, where fans will be able to download the games to their XBox One whenever they like. However, if you own the CD for an XBox 360 title, you can simply insert the disk to the XBox One and you will be offered to download the title immediately to the One once the compatibility is available. What’s more, Microsoft have promised that you will not need to pay again for any of your existing XBox 360 titles to bring them to XBox One – meaning that you’ll potentially be able to bring over your whole library of Xbox 360 games to the One at no cost to you.
The games will play exactly like they did on the 360; and games that include online features will be playable with players still on their 360s using XBox Live. However, you’ll also get to use the XBox One’s native features with the game, such as being able to take in-action screenshots or side-load an app to show alongside the game. Take a look at the video below for the full low-down; meanwhile, we’ll leave the final words to Microsoft:
“If you’ve been holding off from upgrading from your XBox 360, now is definitely the time!”
