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Sounds good: The Xbox Series X will feature “ray traced audio”

By Darryn Bonthuys
February 27, 2020
in :  Gaming
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Over on Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb’s podcast, Director of Xbox program management Jason Ronald detailed the upcoming audio features that’ll be present within the Xbox Series X. While dedicated hardware acceleration for audio was a topic teased for GDC not too long ago (Like that’s going to be happening this year), Ronald revealed that Microsoft is taking sound design a lot more seriously with new technology that he described as audio ray tracing.

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The new Xbox One Dashboard is now open to everyone

By Alessandro Barbosa
October 17, 2017
in :  Gaming
4

The Xbox One now has its third Dashboard rework out in the wild for everyone to try, and it seems Microsoft might have finally found something that works as fast as it should.

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Xbox Game Pass is available right now (with 100 games) for Gold Subscribers

By Alessandro Barbosa
May 24, 2017
in :  Gaming
6

Xbox Game Pass, the subscription service that gives Xbox One owners instant access to over 100 games, is now live for Gold Subscribers.

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Rocket League new focus is on eSports

By Kyle Wolmarans
February 16, 2016
in :  Gaming
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Rocket League releases to Xbox One tomorrow, and according to Psyonix they are moving forward with a refreshed focus on eSports. Jeremy Dunham joined Larry Hyrb in a podcast to talk about the future of Rocket League and eSports.

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Gamescom 2013 – Lazygamer chats to Major Nelson

By Darryn Bonthuys
August 21, 2013
in :  Gaming
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We chat to the public face of Xbox himself, Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb about community support and expanding locally into South Africa.

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Ever Wanted To See Xbox HQ? Now you can!

By Geoffrey Tim
December 3, 2010
in :  Gaming
1

This is quite damned cool. Xbox’s Major Nelson, known to his mother as Larry Hyrb takes you on a guided tour of the Microsoft’s Xbox Headquarters. You’ll get to see the Entertainment and Devices division building, where the Xbox team works and plays – and god dammit I want a job there. Fantastic facilities, holograms..and an elephant? The thing that …

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