Xbox One: Το update του Νοεμβρίου είναι εδώ

Το νέο και τελευταίο για το 2014 update του Xbox One είναι πλέον διαθέσιμο. Το update φέρνει την πολυπόθητη δυνατότητα χρήσης custom backgrounds, δυνατότητα δημοσίευσης των game clips στο Twitter, βελτιώσεις στο Xbox Store και στο Smartglass, snap mode στο Internet Explorer και την επιλογή "Restart now" για επανεκκίνηση της κονσόλας. Δείτε αναλυτικά τις αλλαγές παρακάτω και πείτε μας πώς σας φαίνονται! Κάτοχοι Xbox One, ευχαριστημένοι;

Custom Backgrounds
For the first time, each account on your Xbox One can have a customized background. You can choose a custom color as a theme or achievement art as your background image and those will show on any Xbox One that you Sign In on with your account. Additionally, you can use the Media Player app to pick any JPG or PNG image off of a USB attached drive or a home media server that supports DLNA. While viewing a picture/photo in full screen mode, press the Menu button and choose “Set as background” – your custom image is stored locally on that Xbox One console.

Gamer Profile
You can now share your location and bio as part of your profile. You can set these options on your Xbox One console and use Xbox One SmartGlass to browse to other people’s profiles and check out their showcase items. Additionally, you can now select a set of showcase items that are displayed when other gamers look at your profile on an Xbox One console. You can use Xbox One SmartGlass or Xbox One console to add or remove up to six game clips or achievements that will be displayed in a carousel format.

Tweet about your Favorite Game Clips
You can now share your favorite Xbox One game clips with your followers on Twitter. Use the Share button on any game clip you have created and select Twitter to compose the Tweet.

A New Way to Watch TV
For the first time, you can discover new shows and see what people are saying about them in real-time with new Live TV and Twitter integration.

Xbox One Store improvements
The Store pages on Xbox One have been improved to enable you to more quickly browse and find content. The navigation buttons are moved to the far left so you can find them easier. You can also more quickly find game add-ons, perform store specific searches and recommendations are more prominently displayed. Finally, store categories have been standardized so you can easily see the top items in each query at a glance.

Friends’ Game Activity on SmartGlass
You can now see a list of your friends that have played a given game within the Xbox One SmartGlass experience.

Games with Gold & Deals with Gold on SmartGlass
For gamers with an Xbox Live Gold subscription, you can browse “Free Games with Gold” and discounted content with Gold and initiate download of the content to your Xbox One console from your mobile device.

SmartGlass Store Improvements
We added a new section for Apps to make it easier to find and download apps for your Xbox One, as well as adding a Coming Soon filter for Games and Add-ons to make it easier to see upcoming Xbox One releases sorted by anticipated release date.

Snap IE
From the Address Bar in Internet Explorer, you can now easily snap from a full screen experience and move Internet Explorer into snap mode.

IE Featured sites
Now, Internet Explorer will show a number when something is newly-added to featured sites. Newly-added sites will also display a badge (denoted by an asterisk (*) in the upper right corner) until you launch them or seven days have passed since the site was added to the Featured list.

Restart now
If you want to restart your Xbox One console without getting out of your chair, you can now do it by going to Settings - Power & startup, and choosing “Restart now.”

Console update information
Under Settings – System – Console info, you can now see the latest status (e.g. “update successful”) for Xbox One console updates, including date last updated and last automatic update check.

Live TV Trending
Xbox One owners in the U.S., Canada and the UK, will see a new “Trending” tab in OneGuide that displays the top 20 most watched TV shows, with the list filtered down to the shows that are currently available to you based on your OneGuide settings. The Live TV on Xbox trending list is updated by the minute, so you can easily discover shows that are popular with other viewers.

Twitter TV Trending
Additionally, if you are in the U.S., you’ll see what Live TV is trending based on the highest number of tweets. The Trending tab in OneGuide is updated to display Live TV on Twitter first and Live TV on Xbox trending second. You can tune to a specific show from either trending list by pressing the A button.

Tweets in MiniGuide
Also, initially available in the U.S., you will see the actual tweets for the Live TV shows in real time and quickly find the Twitter #hashtag to join the conversation.

Recents and Favorites in MiniGuide
MiniGuide has been updated to include your favorite TV channels in a combined Recents and Favorites area and MiniGuide can now be activated via voice by saying “Xbox Select – MiniGuide” while watching TV.