Xbox One’s April Update to get a revamped Guide and improved Mixer experience

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Published onApril 7, 2020

published onApril 7, 2020

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Microsoft’s Xbox One console is due to get itsnext big updatelater this month with a variety of features that the company has beentesting with its Xbox Insider testers recently.

These changes include a bit of a revamp of the Guide menus, some improvements to the My Games and Apps section, and some added functionality to the nativeMixerexperience.

The new Guide moves the main Xbox icon to the left side and reorganizes several links. Here’s the official list of changes:

The My Games and Apps section will add a new Surprise Me! button which will select a game for the user to play when they can’t make up their mind.

Here’s a pic of it from Xbox Wire:

Finally, the relatively new native Mixer experience will finally gain support for subscriber badges, emotes, andEmber messageswhile having video options more easily accessible via the controller’s Menu button as opposed to the rather confusing current menu which auto-hides.

While these additions to the Mixer experience are good to see, thesoon-to-be-removed Xbox One Mixer app, which is essentially a web wrapper of the Mixer website is still much easier to use, looks better, and offers more features for viewers such as XP and channel rank tracking and significantly better search screens for finding channels to watch.

Hopefully updates to the Mixer console experience will be pushed out at a faster rate going forward.

What do you think of these changes coming to Xbox One consoles this month? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below and thenfollow us on PinterestandFacebook for more Xbox gaming content.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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