Tag: Dashboard
News Xbox Attracts Controversy Over New McDonald's Ad On The Dashboard
"Non game-related stuff can get in the bin"
The fact that we get ads on the Xbox dashboard doesn't come as a surprise these days, but a new ad for McDonald's has attracted a bit of controversy - with almost half a million people viewing a complaint about it on social media. On the likes of "X" and Reddit, we've seen irritations that Microsoft is...
News Xbox Fans Seem Divided Over The New 'Happening Now' Social Feature
Some love it, some hate it
You may have seen recently that Xbox has begun rolling out a new social feature in the "Friends" tab that's known as "Happening Now", and over the past 24 hours, we've seen a lot of people sharing their opinions on this latest addition. As you can see from the image above, the idea is to make you aware of all the active...
Talking Point Almost A Year On, What Do You Think Of The Current Xbox Dashboard?
The new version made its debut last July
It was all the way back in September of 2022 that Team Xbox first unveiled a new dashboard interface that would be tested by Insiders over the next year, with the intention of incorporating feedback into the final, public version. The feedback was mixed to say the least, with concerns around backgrounds...
News Xbox Fans React Poorly As Big 'Store' Button Replaces 'Browse My Games' In Latest Update
"Fully agree this is terrible"
The new Xbox dashboard is continuing to roll out to all Xbox users right now, and in the meantime it seems to be getting some subtle updates as well. One of those updates has been spotted over the past 24 hours in the form of a "Browse The Store" button where the old "Browse My Games" button used to be, and it's not...
News It's Finally Here! The New Xbox Dashboard Has Arrived
Rollout begins today for Xbox One & Series X|S
Today's the day for the new Xbox dashboard! Microsoft has confirmed that a brand-new version of the Home UI is rolling out from today for all Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles. The Xbox team has highlighted seven benefits of the new UI over on Xbox Wire, which are as follows: Makes...
Random Xbox 360 Dashboard Gets 'Modern Twist' In New Concept Art
"What if we went back to basics?"
We love sharing some fan-created Xbox dashboard designs every now and again, and this one based on an old Xbox 360 dashboard definitely caught our eye early this week, put together by an artist known as Ayeris. As you can see, it's a modern take on the "New Xbox Experience" dashboard that first debuted in 2008,...
News Xbox Announces Plans To Make New Dashboard Feel Less 'Crowded'
"We’re working to balance the experience"
Xbox has announced today that plans are in the works to improve the new Xbox Home UI that's currently being tested by some Xbox Insiders, with current experiments being "paused" ahead of bigger updates coming soon. Exact details on what to expect haven't been shared just yet, but the Xbox team says that...
News Xbox Dashboard Adding New 'Friends & Community Updates' Section
Rolling out now to Xbox Insiders
Xbox has pulled back the curtain on a new feature for the "New Xbox Home Experience" - the name for the new UI being tested by various Xbox Insiders. It's called the Friends & Community Updates channel, and it begins rolling out today. Basically, this new channel is a way to "bring together all the top things...
News Xbox Has 'Heard Feedback' On Making Home Screen Backgrounds More Visible
"We're on it!"
Xbox has published its latest Insider Program overview, and once again, there's a big focus on the work-in-progress 2023 dashboard. The team has changed the way players can add 'Groups' to the home screen, and has also "heard a ton of varied feedback" on the dashboard generally, including requests to make backgrounds more visible...
News Xbox Users Left Irritated By Excessive MW2 Ads On The Dashboard
"They really want us to get Modern Warfare 2"
It's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launch day, and as you may have noticed, Xbox is very much in the mood to celebrate the occasion! Unfortunately, some of those celebrations have been rubbing Xbox fans the wrong way. Earlier today, various Xbox users began taking to social media to share their...
News Xbox Dev Comments On Feedback For The New Dashboard
It's been somewhat negative so far
Earlier this month, Microsoft unveiled a brand-new 'Home' UI for Xbox Insiders that would be tested throughout the year, with plans to bring the final version to all users in 2023. Unfortunately, initial feedback wasn't exactly very positive on the design (although poll results were mixed here at Pure Xbox),...
News Xbox's New Dashboard Is Getting Mixed Feedback, So Fans Are Creating Their Own
Check out these impressive concepts
It's fair to say the new Xbox home UI perhaps didn't get the reaction that the team had hoped for last week. Although initial feedback was somewhat positive in our poll here at Pure Xbox, a lot of Xbox Insiders who have been given access to the new dashboard have been submitting fairly negative feedback over at...
News Xbox Dev Asks Fans Not To Spam Her With Requests To 'Change The UI'
Or anything else for that matter
Xbox engineering lead Eden Marie is one of the most active members of the development team on Twitter, but she's had to issue a warning about "annoyance campaigns", using a request to overhaul the current Xbox UI as an example. Yesterday, she shared an image of a couple of direct messages she received about this...
News Microsoft Shares Early Dashboard Concepts For The Original Xbox
It could have looked very different
We all remember the iconic original Xbox dashboard and its incredible intro sequence (the latter still viewable today with backwards compatible titles on modern consoles) but Microsoft had plenty of alternate ideas for these as well. A few examples have been published on the Xbox virtual museum, broken down into...
News Xbox Series X's 4K Dashboard Test Expands To More Insiders
A thing of beauty
Xbox users have been craving a 4K dashboard for some time now, and now the feature is rolling out to more Xbox Insider members. While the feature was introduced to Alpha ring members earlier this year, users in the Beta ring will now find the upgrade available for them too. As part of this week's Insider update, Xbox Series X...
News New Xbox One Dashboard Update On the Way
But what does it contain?
It seems that Microsoft are gearing up to resume their periodical dashboard updates for the Xbox One, at least according to a message that has been doing the rounds from the Xbox Live team in the last 24 hours. The message, which has been sent to select Preview Program members, has been sent via the Xbox Live messaging...
News Xbox One User Shows How Awesome the Xbox One Dash Could Be
What say you?
We should point out from the get-go that the images you'll see in the below gallery are not in any way official...just in case you don't read the rest of the text. We just thought it was interesting and a job well done. Reddit user ES_Baxter has been tinkering with Photoshop to put together a few changes that would improve the Xbox...
News Xbox 360 Store Comes to Xbox One Today Along With Other Updates
Backward compatible dreamland
This month's Xbox One firmware update will roll out today to all users. As reported earlier in the month, it will include some pretty large changes to improve functionality, including the ability to purchase backward compatible Xbox 360 games from the Xbox One store. The full list of changes are as follows:- Buy Xbox...
News New Xbox One Experience Gets First Major Update
Community Calender App and more!
The New Xbox One Experience has started to roll out slowly as it builds up towards its full launch. As part of this process there have been a few bumps in the road with bugs and a number of these have been addressed already. A new Community Calendar app has been set live to download as well. This app is expected to...
Rumour New Xbox One Dashboard May Begin Rolling Out to Preview Program Users This Week
Keep rolling, rolling, rolling
Microsoft's Xbox Engineering team have been hard at work preparing the new Xbox One Dashboard since officially unveiling it at E3 this year. Xbox One owners who have been part of the Xbox Preview Program have been patiently waiting to hear when they can get their hands all over the new OS to put it through its paces...
News Xbox One Dashboard to Get Transparent Tile Option
Coming soon
Those beady-eyed folks over at Reddit have spotted something a little bit out of the ordinary on one of Major Nelson's recent videos. It appears that the Major is playing with a yet-to-be-released version of the Xbox One system software that allows for tiles to be made transparent. Ever since the system allowed for custom backgrounds to...
