Nice lady I met at a party: I work for GM, what do you do?
Me: I work for Xbox.
NLIMaaP: Oh, do you get to play games all day?
Me: Do you just drive cars all day?
NLIMaaP: <laughs> You get asked that question a lot, huh
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Dance Dance Immolation was a Dance Dance mod made by an industrial art collective that spayed fire on you if you messed up. I did it once, it was bonkers and amazing.
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Remember when Trump called your wife ugly and said your dad was a murderer? I totally do.
So any time you tweet some kind of tough guy nonsense, I think, oh wow, what kind of man licks the boot of someone who insulted his family like that.
So you want to make a videogame documentary? Can I suggest you set your documentary *after* 1990, instead of re-treading the exact same territory of every other videogame documentary? Creation stories are cool, but it turns out the industry actually kept going after 1989!
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It took you five days to figure out that harassing a paying guest in your own lobby was termination-worthy?
And you need "experts" to learn common decency and hospitality practices?
You should lose your and affiliations.
It's 02/02/2020 -- the first palindrome day since 11/11/1111, and the last before 12/12/2121. Enjoy it!
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Nothing is more American than letting the police decide what's ok to read, right?
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for a so called Christian you do a pretty poor job of loving your neighbor. You ever read that book you carry around?
Wow, there are so many great games coming to Xbox over the next year. It's incredibly exciting!
Games from independent developers are more relevant and important today than they ever have been.
More than 70 console demos shipping on Xbox for the Summer Game Fest Demo Event!
I used to bring my Xbox with me when I traveled. It was fun but inconvenient. Now I bring a controller and play Xbox via xCloud and it's kind of magical.
With all due respect to the rad people on the Forbes list this year, here is my list of five "30s" I'd vastly rather see than yet another 30-under-30 list.
As one of the commenters on the post says, "you're never too old to make art."
Read this cool story about a 70 year old Brazilian poet making his first game and starting a new studio.
And check out the demo on Xbox now!
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I sign every ID@Xbox publishing contract, and when I get to co-sign a contract with a dev I really admire it's always kind of exciting! I've gotten to sign contracts with so many cool people!
The day before he said he stood behind the employees who perpetrated the "horror" so which is it? He's sorry or he supports what happened?
Over the holiday I modded an old SP with an IPS screen and a new case. (It glows in the dark!) Also a new battery to replace the bulging (!) old one. Fun project and fun to walk down memory lane with these games!
My son just said "you didn't grow up in an era when kids told outrageous lies about fake things in games."
I heard if you go far enough in Battlezone you can get to the volcano. Did I tell you this kid in this other neighborhood unlocked Shen Long? My friend's brother saw it!
Best practices for Achievements:
Give an achievement in the first 5 or 10 minutes of play.
Playing through the core game should get a player ~40 - 50% of the gamerscore
Use Achievements to encourage players to check out things like bonus content...
I feel like cheating on your wife and committing felony campaign law violations to cover it up is kind of more disrespectful.
On Xbox as players scroll through the new releases, your trailer will start to play.
I would gently suggest that this may not the place to have a long, slow, cinematic start to your trailer that takes 45 seconds to get through the logos slowly fading in and out...
For absolute beginners, who want to get into game development the best investment you can make, if you can afford it, is $12 a month for YouTube Premium. The reality is that all the best game engine tutorials and information are on YouTube right now...
Games that say "press any key to start" and *then* start loading?
Like, what the heck were you waiting for on that pointless modal display box, game?
Just load! I wouldn't have started the game if I didn't want to play.
Please never do this.
Today we hit 1,000 games shipped on Xbox via the program! Over the past 5 years the ID team has been privileged to work some of the greatest game devs ever, and on behalf of players everywhere I just want to say we're super thankful for all the amazing work you do!
OCTOPATH TRAVELER!!! OCTOPATH TRAVELER!!! OCTOPATH TRAVELER!!!
I always forget what the actual anniversary of is, but it's actually TODAY! Today, 8 years ago, Microsoft announced ID@Xbox at Gamescom, about 6 weeks after and I started working on it full-time!
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Is this the week I fit A&W into my healthy eating routine? Yes, yes it is. #seeyainRenton
I saw screen shots of a forthcoming unannounced game this afternoon and now I'm like floating...
Can we talk for a sec about Achievement design in games? I've seen some awesome and also terrible examples recently...
"Scissor's only move is to beat paper. It's by far the weakest play. If you're throwing scissor you've already lost the mind game." - overhead at Evo.
I'm really bummed COVID happened and we were never able to distribute these cool pencils to anyone
4K split screen Blood Gulch? Holiday LAN parties? Yes please! I'm willing to put the vintage Halo travelling trophy on the line...
"...but we do support racists with our dollars."
Congrats and thank you to all the amazing developers who helped realize this amazing milestone today -- 2000 games from independent developers released through ID@Xbox so far this generation!
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Super excited for the Xbox Discovery Day in Seoul today! Great to be seeing devs (and colleagues) (and swag) again in person!
My dad hasn't had visits to his nursing home since COVID. Today his wife was able to visit him and he's like "oh! You look just like my wife Liz" and then burst out laughing because he's a giant troll and the only part of his brain that survived the stroke was the dad joke part.
When you play Cuphead and see how polished the gameplay is, remember... This is 's *first* game! It's an amazing accomplishment!
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Knocked out by a part time team? With Alonso having the backing of an F1 team? It's almost like F1 teams don't really understand the complexity of driving an IndyCar...
Developers going through the ID@Xbox program have earned more than $1.2B in royalties since 2014.
(I was quoted, correctly, saying "Xbox has paid more than $1.2B to devs," but I want to make it clear that it was royalties the devs had earned from sales!)
There are more than 1,000 games in development from developers. Pretty amazing! Excited to show off some new ones at GDC!
Contrats to the 500th game to release via , Cities Skylines, and #501, 'n Verlore Verstand - the first to ship from a dev in Africa!
If you were hoping to meet with ID@Xbox folks at GDC, please reach out, and if you don't know who to reach out to, please email id@xbox.com and we'll get a call set up. We have a whole week free for calls!
We meant to give these patches out at our open house and we forgot. They're pretty cool though!
Most of my controller collection. I think almost every commercially available Xbox controller made by Microsoft is in this shot.
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My son once saw me playing a not-that-pretty game on PC and was like "that's super ugly." Then he paused, and imitated another voice and said "but bro, the frame rate" then burst out laughing and walked away.
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Are you asking us to turn off the news so we don't see that your corporate parent stole a $10 "small business loan" meant for actual small business? Like franchisees?
Sneak peak of the limited edition shirts we'll have at #XboxFanFest to commemorate X018. These are so cool!
I love working at Xbox and Microsoft, but some days the people are so funny and awesome, it's just super fun.
I watched the chief today describe this exact incident as the police being attacked and responding to an attack. The police stole and umbrella and then started a riot. This is madness. twitter.com/stephtseo/stat
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Ok I have to take a break from social media now, but if this is my last tweet, here's all I have to say:
It's not enough to not be a racist. If you're not actively working against racism, you're passively enabling it.
The seven surviving members of the original 1962 Space War team in stage at the Smithsonian. Every game you've ever played owes a debt to the game Steve Russell and the rest of the team created. Amazed to be at this event!
We had 30+ amazing titles we wanted to show the world (including lots of new announces) at GDC -- check them out now right here and hear about these new games straight from the devs!
This was a cool article!
How the Xbox Series X and Series S fit into the most popular Ikea furniture
I'm excited to see what people think tomorrow! I think the show will have some cool games! news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/06/
My breakfast ended prematurely when an attempt to get brown sugar out if the cabinet resulted in this high speed cumin/bowl clipping bug.
We're showing more than 50 games coming via the ID@Xbox program at GDC next week, here are some of the new announces we'll have!
Pre-ordered an Elite Series 2 at the Xbox Experience and got this awesome exclusive d-pad!
Sadly we lost my mother-in-law today after a few months of illness. She was an amazing woman, a mainframe programmer and pioneer and an incredibly loving and fun loving person who triumphed over tons of adversity in her life. She'll be deeply missed.
Phil's had an amazing career and is such an amazing person to work with. Super well deserved! No one loves games and the industry more than Phil!
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We are thrilled to announce that @XboxP3 will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Annual #DICEAwards!
Learn more @ interactive.org/news/phil_spen
After amassing (I think) every publicly available controller made by Microsoft for Xbox One, I decided against collecting controllers for Xbox Series X.
It's going... ok.
I might have jumped the gun last week, but today is actually the five year anniversary of ID@Xbox!
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The 70s were sick. I had a Schwinn, we went to the moon and invented computers and videogames. Sign me up!
Want to see a list of every game released via in chronological order? It's right here: idatxbox.com/2017/04/21/idx
Someone at PAX on an escalator (I think having an argument with their friend) just screamed "raise your hand if you thought Rogue One was a good movie!" Everyone raised their hands.
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You BEGGED for this. You are a bootlicking piece of trash.
I hope everyone who celebrates it is having a Merry Christmas! This hoodie was my highlight present from !!
Every single thing I thought and hoped might be - and I had really high expectations - has been so far exceeded by the reality of the game it blows my mind.
I don't think I've had this much fun exploring a world since Fez. It's just a masterpiece.
I'm really excited about E3 and our briefing this year! Also stoked that we snuck ~20 skateboards down to give away during Fan Fest!
This is going to be cool!
You know you're at a cool party when your hostess has ship-gifts for every Xbox! Bill Gates signed that OG Xbox btw!
Not 100% sure what my game of the summer is going to be but...
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What kind of person attacks a reporter for asking a question? A fascist thug who doesn't understand what it means to be an American.
There's some threads going around on how to dress for game pitches. here's my take, and I see a lot of pitches.
1) Shower and brush your teeth, It's important to not be gross.
2) Beyond that wear *whatever you want.*
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Everyone in the ID team's group chat was watching and talking about what an amazing job you were doing! Thank you!!!
The Xbox Adaptive Controller is now available! news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/09/
WFH Pro-Tip: If you drink from a transparent glass on a conference call, everyone can see your mouth open, distorted, through the glass, and you look like a fish. Use a non-transparent water bottle or mug instead.
I think there's 10 countries represented among the 19 games we just showed via that montage. I'm super proud of that!
The night before PAX, come play 50+ games at Microsoft's Redmond Campus at our Visitor Center! Open to all and free! Come on out!
I found my original Pong board autographed by Al Alcorn and - very stoked to have this item!
