Tips & Tricks to get most of your new console – Part 1.

It’s Christmas season meaning a lot of you probably received a fresh new console whether it’s an Xbox One, PS4, or Wii U. This article serves to help newcomers to Xbox One, what memberships you should get, and what features you may want to use regularly.
Xbox Live Gold – Games  With Gold
Players with an active Xbox Live Gold memberships may download the games during their availability periods. When downloaded, the game belongs to you even if you afterward drop Xbox Live Gold. It’s worth noting that unlike Xbox 360, you need an active Gold membership to play your Free Games on Xbox One. Four titles are released every month for Xbox One and Xbox 360, and future Games with Gold releases for Xbox 360 will be made available for Xbox One through its backward compatibility program.
This month, the free games are:

• Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
• Outlast
• Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360)

Since it’s holiday season,  all current silver members will be able to grab Gold for one month for just $1 during the Countdown Sales period to enjoy all of the great promotions Xbox store is having.

How do you sign up for Xbox Live Gold?
It’s simple. On your Home tab, check far right, click on the rectangle that has “Gold” written on it. Upon doing so, it will redirect you to a page that has all the information you need to sign up for Gold, view the monthly free games, weekly Deals With Gold.


Here are the free games for January 2017:

• World of Van Helsing: Deathtrap: Available from January 1-31 on Xbox One
• Killer Instinct Season2 Ultra Edition: Available from January 16-February 15 on Xbox One
• The Cave: Available from January 1-15 on Xbox 360 & Xbox One
• Rayman Origin : Available from January 16-31 on Xbox 360 & Xbox One

Screenshot your Moments or Record a clip
Xbox One offers the ability to take screenshots, and record clips of your favorite games at any time during gameplay. You can capture a screenshot by saying “Xbox, take a screenshot,” or, if you’re using Cortana, “Hey Cortana, take a screenshot.” To capture a screenshot with the controller, double-tap the Xbox button, and then press the Y button. The same process applies to Recording a clip. If you’re using the Kinect sensor, say “Xbox, record that!” Or, if you’re using Cortana with Kinect or a headset, say “Hey Cortana, record that!” To record using a controller, double-tap the Xbox button and then press the X button.

Share or view your screenshots/recordings.
All of your screenshots and recordings are saved in the app called “Game DVR”. To access it here’s how:

1. On Home, move right and select My games & apps.
2. Choose Apps, and then select Game DVR.

At the first glance, you can toggle screenshots and game clips for a better viewing.  Clicking the Start button on a screenshot you will get various options like sharing to your feed, Twitter, send as a message, set as your Xbox One background image. It’s all up to you and way you want to deal with the screenshot.
All of the information above can be applied to Game Clips.

Xbox One Backward Compatibility
Revealed back at E3 2015 with an amazing fan response, BC program arrived on Xbox One in November 2015 with a lot of great titles. Today with more than 300+ titles available ranging from fan favorites like Red Dead Redemption, Dead Space, Halo Wars, Halo Reach, Black Ops, and much more. Unlike PS NOW which the players pay for games they already owned, on Xbox One the backward compatibility is FREE to enjoy if you own the title on Xbox 360 digitally or retail.
How does it work?
The digital titles that you own and are part of the Back Compatibility game catalog will automatically show up in the “Ready to Install” section on your Xbox One. For disc-based games that are a part of the Back Compat game catalog, insert the disc and the console will begin downloading the game to your hard drive. After the game has downloaded to your hard drive, users will still need to keep the game disc in the drive to play.

Xbox team delivers new BC games on a weekly basis. Make sure to stay tuned to our Twitter to get the latest BC  games as they come out!
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