Microsoft launches digital Xbox twentieth Anniversary museum

Xbox’s twentieth anniversary celebrations proceed right this moment with the arrival of a digital museum from Microsoft.

(No, I refuse to name it a metaverse.)

This browser-based expertise is a mixture of main information tales charting Xbox’s 20-year historical past, 3D objects akin to Halo’s Warthog or the Skyrim brand, and a few eye-opening private stats in case you discover whereas signed into an Xbox account.

The museum is split into sections for every Xbox console, the place you possibly can browse a 3D timeline of occasions. The Xbox 360 period, for instance, has sections on the launch of Xbox Dwell Arcade, the reveal of Mission Natal as Kinect, and the notorious “Purple Ring of Dying” disaster which noticed numerous consoles conk out.

However maybe most attention-grabbing for long-term Xbox homeowners is an space devoted to your personal private stats, which Microsoft has quietly been retaining observe of. Need to know if you first switched in your unique Xbox? Which sport you have performed essentially the most over the previous 20 years? Which was your very first achievement? Microsoft has a devoted space for every person, and you can even share it for others to wander spherical in case you so select.

For instance, my private museum space tells me I first signed into Xbox Dwell on twenty eighth September 2010 – I truly purchased an Xbox 360 with my second Eurogamer paycheck, in order that tracks. My first achievement is named “Cluster Buster”, which is sort of definitely one thing from the pack-in sport Hexic. I may also see my most-played sport for every year, which is a captivating look again on the multiplayer modes I used to be enjoying again then (2010’s is Purple Useless Redemption, 2011 was Murderer’s Creed Brotherhood, and 2012 was Mass Impact 3).

Microsoft celebrated the twentieth anniversary of Xbox final week with the (not so) shock launch of Halo Infinite’s multiplayer portion, in addition to the announcement of an Xbox mission origins documentary collection, a glimpse on the upcoming Paramount+ Halo TV present, and greater than 70 extra Xbox backwards appropriate video games.