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Microsoft Has Updated Its ‘Xbox’ App, Adding New Social Features

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In an effort to make up for lost ground in the battle against Sony’s PlayStation, Microsoft is rethinking various aspects of the Xbox experience, from the actual console to the Xbox apps. Speaking of the latter, Microsoft has released updated Xbox (Free) apps for iOS and Android today that do away with the “SmartGlass" moniker of the earlier Xbox Apps and are called simply Xbox. These new apps allow you to keep track of your Microsoft gaming – on Windows 10 PC, Phone, and Xbox – from your phone or tablet. The new app looks a lot like Windows 10 and has a number of changes and improvements.

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The first major one is the Activity Feed is now the home for the app, and the Activity Feed itself will be more personalized. The app also has “trending" content, Facebook friend finder, Contact list friend finder, real name sharing, game hubs, updated profiles, and more. Overall, it’s a relatively big social overhaul, but we’ll see whether Microsoft has any further plans for the app in the near future. It’s important to note that the Microsoft E3 press conference has just started, so maybe we’ll hear something about the recently-updated app.

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  • 9 Comments

    1. peaThere

      wow these guys are really lost they nerf a card to the point where nobody wants to use it and then realize they nerfed it too much where nobody uses it and want to bring it back. I'm starting to get lost lol

      1. bhayes444

        Yeah, they pretty much have a vision for how they want an average game to play out. Only problem is they really should've been doing a lot of the changes in beta. If they are concerned with certain cards then they really need to be changing just 3 or 4 cards at a time and watching the results. Changing as many as they do makes the results much to varied. This is why there always seems to be drastically changing meta decks after a patch; because people find the easiest cards to exploit from a change and then go with it. Easiest example is the buff of Royal giant health then damage, by the time the range got buffed it was obvious it would be a good card. Eventually supercell will get it right, but I feel like the cards just need to have more variety or something. Heck, a building that puts buffs or nerfs on cards in an AOE would be interesting. Better yet: a new arena style so that one type of deck would be good in one arena, but not so great in another.

      2. TenDeuChen

        It's almost like they nerf a good card that people have spent money to level up, then buff a card no one's paying to level up so that now top players will want to spend money to level *that* card up. It's about as if they want to keep you spending money to chase the new "best" deck or something...

        1. Nick Smith

          The history of the Royal Giant card is such a strong example of this meta forcing garbage.

    2. Ankrd

      Prince damage increased! Why that makes no sense,damage was already pretty high. HP increase would have been more logical.

      1. Mrbestapps

        Each Change is calculated perfectly. Prince will now one hit barbarians, witch, musketeer, wizard in charge. And 2 hit them normal. Used to be 3 hits^

        It's an insane buff. Same with pekka

        1. Eric Hill

          Except not for me! I always face higher level people so the update won't affect me. The enemy's pekka/prince already 1 shot those, and mine still won't. :/

    3. Nick Smith

      Because if there's one thing this community and its top level players want, it's the XBOW and Mortar decks back.

    4. Jang_Shierra

      It's about time the hog got nerfed! Too bad the Royal Giant is still OP as ever