Xbox Easter News Today

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Easter egg is a spinning gear in the Notepad app. You can spin the gear for hours of fun.

A number of things happened this week, including the announcement that Windows 10X was no more, a joint E3 conference from Xbox and Bethesda, and more. Be sure to catch up via our handy overview.

A developer who worked on Microsoft’s original 2001 Xbox console, who wishes to remain anonymous, informed Kotaku of a hidden “Easter egg” in the Xbox Dashboard that’s remained undiscovered for nearly 20 years. They told us how to trigger the secret, which displays a previously unknown credits screen. Sure enough, it works. “I didn’t really expect it to be found, not unless the source code leaked or somebody reverse-engineered the Dashboard,” said the source. “Its trigger was t...

And theres another still hidden, creator teases. Updated on 21 May 2021 A neat little Easter egg for the original Xbox has been revealed via Kotaku, two decades after Microsofts console first launched. The hidden secret is a small, static credits screen dedicated to Xbox staff members which worked on the consoles now legendary green interface. (Its a design Microsoft recently honoured with a throwback theme on Xbox Series X/S.) Kotaku was recently contacted...