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April 6th, 2020, 19:11 Posted By: wraggster
Xenia Git (2020/04/06) is compiled. Xenia is an experimental emulator for the Xbox 360. It does not run games (yet).
Xenia Status:
Some real games run. Most don't. See the Game compatibility list for currently tracked games and feel free to contribute your own updates, screenshots, and information there following the existing conventions.
Xenia Git Changelog:
* [D3D12/DXBC] Fix a couple of tessellation-related comments
* [GPU] Fix a typo in the tessellation patch types comment
* [GPU] Shader::HostVertexShaderType enum for domain shader types
* [DXBC] Move cvars from D3D12 to GPU
* [D3D12] Pass adaptive tessellation factors via index buffer like on the guest
* [DXBC] Vertex shader prologue and gamma to new DXBC code
https://github.com/benvanik/xenia
http://www.emucr.com/2020/04/xenia-git-20200406.html
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April 3rd, 2020, 20:51 Posted By: wraggster
Staggering the global rollout of the Xbox Series X console would "hurt" the platform, according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who said that there is still no "Plan B" to launching the console this year.
on its Unlocked podcast, Spencer responded to a question about a "Plan B" that could happen if the spread of the COVID-19 virus makes launching a new console impossible in 2020.
IGN suggested that a staggered launch could be achievable this year, with Xbox Series X made available in some territories before others.
"I know that significant delays in regional launches hurt us," Spencer said, referring to the gradual launch of Xbox One. "It hurts us with the sentiment of the fans. Every time I go to Japan I'm reminded that we were nine months late launching there with Xbox One."We haven't started on that Plan B, but I'd be hesitant to do something like [a staggered launch]"
"And the internet means that everybody knows where everything is launched. It's not like 30 years ago... You don't get the roar of people getting excited from other regions.
Spencer added: "We haven't started on that plan B, but I'd be hesitant to do something like that."
Supply chains that rely on China's manufacturing capacity have "started to come back," Spencer said, in a way that bodes well for Xbox to meet its targets for the year.
However, he also stressed that the biggest challenges that Xbox faces right now are "more software related than hardware [related]." With its workforce now operating from their homes, Microsoft is still solving the problem of replicating vital development functions with a distributed team.
"Building a video game from home, with a large distributed team of hundreds of people, is not easy," Spencer said, framing that problem as a moving target that Xbox is still coming to terms with.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-xbox-series-x
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March 30th, 2020, 22:03 Posted By: wraggster
The ongoing pandemic is driving greater demand for all things online, and Microsoft's assortment of services is no exception.
As The Verge reported, Microsoft this weekend said it has seen a 775% jump in demand for its cloud services like Microsoft Teams and Windows Virtual Desktop in places with enforced social distancing measures or shelter-in-place orders due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The increased demand has prompted Microsoft to limit some Xbox Live functionality as well.
"We're actively monitoring performance and usage trends to ensure we're optimizing services for gamers worldwide," the company said. "At the same time, we're taking proactive steps to plan for high-usage periods, which includes taking prudent measures with our publishing partners to deliver higher-bandwidth activities like game updates during off-peak hours."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ue-to-pandemic
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March 30th, 2020, 14:49 Posted By: wraggster
DS4Windows v2.0.14 is released. DS4Windows is a portable program that allows you to get the best experience while using a DualShock 4 on your PC. By emulating a Xbox 360 controller, many more games are accessible.
DS4Windows Requirements
* Microsoft .NET 4.5 or higher (needed to unzip the driver and for macros to work
* DS4 Driver (Downloaded & Installed with
* Microsoft 360 Driver (link inside DS4Windows, already installed on Windows 7 SP1 and higher or if you've used a 360 controller
* Sony DualShock 4 (This should be
* Micro USB
* (Optional)Bluetooth 2.1+, via adapter or built in pc (My recommendation) (Toshiba's bluetooth & Bluetooth adapters using CSR currently does not
DS4Windows changelog:
* Added wait event to use for refreshing controller readings
* Added extra launch parameter for DS4Updater
* Disable Controller Readings tab when not associated with a controller and profile
* Make sure UDP server edit controls are enabled when UDP server is active
* More actively refresh cached profile properties
* Log exceptions from failed Tasks
* Added Unbound preset menu option for preset context menu in Profile Editor
* Increased stick mouse offset
* Changed volume scale used for both headphone and microphone
* Display input delay as a double in interface
* Added more proper logging of background thread exceptions
* Make profile list in Controller listing expand
* Changed Controller Readings section to display numeric data for input and mapped output values
* Changed some logging calls to use warning flag when exceptions are caught
* Temporary: Commented out lightbar color changing routine from virtual DS4. Reverted to use old force feedback routine. The previous change seemed to contribute to infinite rumble for some people but I can't verify anything on my end
* Bundled DS4Updater version 1.4.1
https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows
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March 30th, 2020, 14:10 Posted By: wraggster
Xenia Git (2020/03/28) is compiled. Xenia is an experimental emulator for the Xbox 360. It does not run games (yet).
Xenia Status:
Some real games run. Most don't. See the Game compatibility list for currently tracked games and feel free to contribute your own updates, screenshots, and information there following the existing conventions.
Xenia Git Changelog:
* [DXBC] Fix totally broken instruction when memexport is used in PS
* [DXBC] Unbreak MRT in RTV output path
* [DXBC] D3D11.3 Functional Specification lies
https://github.com/benvanik/xenia
http://www.emucr.com/2020/03/xenia-git-20200328.html
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March 30th, 2020, 13:50 Posted By: wraggster
UK-based publisher Future has closed Official Xbox Magazine.
That's according to our sister site Eurogamer, which reports the magazine was shut down last week and the remaining team let go.
Five other magazines are also said to be closed, but none of them fall within Future's gaming category.
Eurogamer shares an OXM tweet from as recently as Saturday advertising subscriptions, but this has since been removed. The Twitter account remains active, promoting GamesRadar content.
OXM had been running for more than 18 years, having launched in November 2001 around the debut of the original Xbox. It closes in the same year Xbox Series X is expected to launch.
The closure also follows news that Future has also dramatically cut its freelance budget, including for its video games publications.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...agazine-closed
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March 27th, 2020, 10:55 Posted By: wraggster
Despite Xbox being quite generous about the details surrounding its next-gen console, some information are still kept under tight wraps, and likely will remain so. One of these, the source code for the console's Graphics Processing Unit, has been stolen from a hacker who threatens to leak it. The individual, who claims to be a female, got a hold of the source codes for Navi 10, Navi 21 and Arden GPUs, the latter being what's inside the Xbox Series X according to her.
“In November 2019, I found AMD Navi GPU hardware source codes in a hacked computer,” the hacker told TorrentFreak. “The user didn’t take any effective action against the leak of the codes.”
AMD has filed at least two DMCA notices against Github repos with source code relating to AMD's Navi and Arden GPUs, which have since been taken down. However, the hacker told TorrentFreak that if there's no buyer doesn't for the rest of the code, she will "just leak everything".
“I haven’t spoken to AMD about it because I am pretty sure that instead of accepting their mistake and moving on, they will try to sue me. So why not just leak it to everyone?” she added.
She estimates the source code to be valued at $100 million and threatens to leak everything if there is no buyer.
AMD on the other hand wrote in a statement that "the stolen graphics IP is not core to the competitiveness or security of our graphics products" and they are progressing with a criminal investigation.
https://torrentfreak.com/amd-uses-dm...e-leak-200325/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/source-c...leaked.560843/
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March 27th, 2020, 10:45 Posted By: wraggster
GameStop today reassured investors that the ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic does not yet seem to be threatening the year-end launches of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
In a post-earnings conference call with investors, GameStop CEO George Sherman said there was no indication yet that the pandemic would have an impact on the planned fourth-quarter launches of the two consoles, either in when they go on sale or when GameStop takes delivery on them from the console makers.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...eries-x-delays
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March 25th, 2020, 22:53 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft has announced it will be using Minecraft to offer free educational content to children after the spread of coronavirus has led to school closures around the world.
In a blog post, Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced a new Education category has been added to the Minecraft Marketplace that gives parents and their kids the chance to download a selection of free in-game creations to assist with their home learning.
This features some of the lessons from Minecraft: Education Edition, such as a tour of the International Space Station or the inside of a human eye.
It also includes ten educational worlds created by members of the Minecraft community, covering topics such as renewable energy, Greek history and marine biology.
The Minecraft Educational Collection launches as a free download today, and will be available until June 30. It will be available in all versions of Minecraft.
Spencer also took the opportunity to reiterate that Xbox One has comprehensive family settings that will help parents and guardians limit the amount of screentime their children have while stuck at home, and prevent them from accessing inappropriate content.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...e-in-minecraft
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March 18th, 2020, 22:57 Posted By: wraggster
DS4Windows v2.0.13 is released. DS4Windows is a portable program that allows you to get the best experience while using a DualShock 4 on your PC. By emulating a Xbox 360 controller, many more games are accessible.
DS4Windows Requirements
* Microsoft .NET 4.5 or higher (needed to unzip the driver and for macros to work
* DS4 Driver (Downloaded & Installed with
* Microsoft 360 Driver (link inside DS4Windows, already installed on Windows 7 SP1 and higher or if you've used a 360 controller
* Sony DualShock 4 (This should be
* Micro USB
* (Optional)Bluetooth 2.1+, via adapter or built in pc (My recommendation) (Toshiba's bluetooth & Bluetooth adapters using CSR currently does not
DS4Windows changelog:
Added clamping to Gyro Mouse Joystick vertical scale
Start some process calls through explorer. Launch process un-elevated
Added social icons and links to About window
Added device display name to ID column
Added minor tooltip for exclusive column
Another attempt to fix Touchpad panel display
Related change to Gyro panel display
https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows
http://www.emucr.com/2020/03/ds4windows-v2013.html
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March 18th, 2020, 22:55 Posted By: wraggster
XEMU (2020/03/12) is released. xemu is an open-source, cross-platform application that emulates the hardware of the original Xbox game console, allowing users to play their Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. This project is focused on making significant forward progress in terms of features, performance, stability, and user experience in Xbox emulation. This project is an active fork of the XQEMU project, which is based on the very popular and highly actively maintained QEMU full system emulator project.
XQEMU Git Changelog
sdl2: Align ui/sdl2.c with upstream
https://github.com/mborgerson/xemu
http://www.emucr.com/2020/03/xemu-20200312.html
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March 18th, 2020, 21:40 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft's next-generation console appears to have an official release window, coming Thanksgiving 2020.
This is according to an update to the official Xbox Series X page, which revealed the window today.
It does not specify if this date is on Thanksgiving Day -- November 26 -- or if it will launch sometime over the following Black Friday weekend.
The Xbox Series X recently got an in-depth spec reveal, with Phil Spencer stating that the console intends to double, at minimum, the power and speed of the Xbox One X.
Microsoft also plans to keep its first-party titles compatible across all Microsoft hardware, including the new consoles, Xbox One, and Windows PC.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...nksgiving-2020
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March 16th, 2020, 20:44 Posted By: wraggster
The official specs for Xbox Series X have been revealed, expanding on much of the info Microsoft has announced in the past few months.
GamesIndustry.biz sister site Digital Foundry was invited to the company's Redmond headquarters for an in-depth look at the machine, and has shared a full breakdown of the hardware under the hood of the upcoming console.
The Series X is powered by eight Zen 2 cores at 3.8GHz, a significant improvement on the 2.13GHz achieved by the Xbox One X's eight custom Jaguar cores. As previously announced, its GPU offers 12 teraflops of power -- double the amount of the One X, and considerably more than the 1.4 teraflops in the Xbox One S.
Speaking to Digital Foundry, Microsoft technical fellow Andrew Goossen said this has been a key goal for the platform holder.
"We wanted a minimum doubling of performance over Xbox One X to support our 4K60 and 120 targets," he said. "And we wanted that doubling to apply uniformly to all games."
The console has 16GB of GDDR6 memory, up from the 12GB GDDR5 found in the One X or the 8GB DD3 found in the One S.
Internal storage will be handled by a 1TB SSD, plus a 1TB Expansion Card, and support for external storage via USB 3.2 HDDs.
The article also contains more detail on the recently announced Quick Resume feature, which allows players to switch between multiple suspended games. According to Digital Foundry, the Series X's processor is capable of running four Xbox One S game sessions simultaneously on a single chip.
Quick Resume will support a minimum of three Series X games, although more details will be announced at a later date.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-x-performance
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March 2nd, 2020, 20:03 Posted By: wraggster
While Sony is keeping its powder dry for what will presumably be a mammoth reveal of PlayStation 5 in a few months -- assuming, of course, that supply chain disruption doesn't derail its launch plans for the system -- Microsoft is taking quite the opposite tack with Xbox Series X. We know rather a lot about the new Microsoft system already, and the firm isn't being shy about info-dumping plenty of additional details about the console and its launch plans on a regular basis.
That strategy is absolutely sensible, because one of the bigger tasks facing Xbox Series X is a communications challenge. Microsoft is doing something very new with this console, committing fully at last to the paradigm shift it has hinted at since the very outset of the Xbox brand -- moving away from the notion of the console as a monolithic, static platform that lasts five to seven years and is then replaced, and embracing the concept of the console as a consistent, eternal platform running on a variety of steadily evolving hardware products.
It's a lot to take in, even for the games industry itself. For consumers, though, who have been used to the former model for decades, and will continue to be offered variations on that model by Sony and Nintendo... Well, it's more than reasonable for Microsoft to take a few months to communicate exactly what it's doing and why it's doing it.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ndbite-opinion
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February 27th, 2020, 22:18 Posted By: wraggster
Cxbx Reloaded Git (2020/02/26) is compiled. Cxbx-Reloaded is an emulator for running Microsoft Xbox (and eventually, Chihiro) games on Microsoft Windows. The project began life as a fork of Cxbx with added 64-bit support. Work is currently underway to backport some of the improvements from Dxbx. Cxbx-Reloaded is still pretty unstable, don't expect it to run much at this point.
Cxbx Reloaded Git Changelog:
* Merge pull request #1835 from RadWolfie/fix-wfx-format-sanity
* fix sanity and organize wfxformat into functions
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/Cxbx-Reloaded
http://www.emucr.com/2020/02/cxbx-re...-20200226.html
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February 25th, 2020, 17:40 Posted By: wraggster
Xbox boss Phil Spencer believes the industry needs to be more transparent about its problems, if it is to properly address the negative perceptions of those on the "outside looking in."
Spencer's comments were part of a long conversation with Insomniac Games founder Ted Price, who also hosts the Game Maker's Notebook, the official podcast for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
In terms of tackling major issues like fighting toxicity, promoting diversity, and moving towards a healthier working culture, Spencer said he is "very happy with the progress that we all have made jointly."
However, he also acknowledged a tendency to avoid speaking openly and publicly about mistakes, including at conferences like DICE, where Price and Spencer had their conversation.
"One of the things that I used to love about DICE, and I don't see it as much any more... is kinda doing the post-mortem on the big game or the big experience, and what did we learn," Spencer said.
"It wasn't always pretty -- standing up and being unafraid to talk about what went well, where you thought you were gonna go, and where you landed."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-on-key-issues
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February 24th, 2020, 20:51 Posted By: wraggster
Xenia Git (2020/02/24) is compiled. Xenia is an experimental emulator for the Xbox 360. It does not run games (yet).
Xenia Status:
Some real games run. Most don't. See the Game compatibility list for currently tracked games and feel free to contribute your own updates, screenshots, and information there following the existing conventions.
Xenia Git Changelog:
* Update libav submodule.
* [Memory] Invalidate physical memory in Release/Decommit (#1559)
* [D3D12] SharedMemory::ClearCache invalidating pages, destroying watches
https://github.com/benvanik/xenia
http://www.emucr.com/2020/02/xenia-git-20200224.html
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February 24th, 2020, 18:26 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft has revealed a few new details surrounding the Xbox Series X.
In an Xbox Wire post, Xbox head Phil Spencer today said "the next console generation will be defined by more playing and less waiting," and some of the Series X features were designed with that in mind.
For example, the system will have a Quick Resume feature that lets players have multiple games in a suspended state for a near-instant return to action. Like the Xbox One X, the Series X will also support HDMI 2.1, which will let the console automatically set the connected TV or monitor to the mode with the lowest latency and synchronize refresh rates between the display and the game. Spencer also listed previously announced features like the system's SSD storage, 120 frames per second support, and optimized wireless communications with the controller as contributing to a focus on instant immersion.
Under the hood, Spencer said the Series X will have 12 teraflops of GPU performance. That's twice the Xbox One X's total and more than eight times the original Xbox One's capabilities.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ries-x-details
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February 12th, 2020, 21:54 Posted By: wraggster
At its Galaxy Unpacked 2020 event in San Francisco yesterday, Samsung announced more than just its upcoming lineup of smartphones. In particular, the Korean company announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring a "premium cloud-based game streaming experience to mobile players".
“This is just the beginning of our gaming partnership with Xbox,” explained David S. Park, head of Samsung’s US marketing, on stage. “Both Samsung and Xbox share a vision for bringing great gaming experiences to mobile players around the world. With our 5G-enabled portfolios and Microsoft’s rich history in gaming, we are working closely together to create a premium cloud-based game streaming experience. You’ll hear more about it later this year.”
While more details were scant, it's likely a move to bring Project xCloud to Android-powered Samsung devices. Speaking to The Verge, Kareem Choudhry, Microsoft’s Project xCloud chief, seems to confirm those speculations with the following statement: “We’ve seen positive feedback from Project xCloud preview participants testing a range of Galaxy devices, and it will only get better as we continue to work closely with Samsung on refining the experience. It’s an exciting time to be working on Project xCloud, and we can’t wait to share more about our work with Samsung later this year.”
Park also revealed the upcoming Forza Street for Galaxy devices, with pre-registration open now:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/xbox-and...gaming.557980/
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