Check your Xbox addiction over past 10 years with new ‘My Decade On Xbox’ tool
CURIOUS gamers can see how much time they've wasted on their Xbox over the past 10 years using a nifty new online tool.
"My Decade in Xbox" produces a slick graphic showing you your busiest months and the games you completed between 2010 and 2019.
It even hazards a guess at how much cash you spent on games in that period – a metric not for the faint-hearted.
My Decade on Xbox was built by TrueAchievements, a site that tracks Xbox achievements.
Its creators said the tool provides "a visual snapshot of your gaming career from 2010-2019."
To have a gander at your gaming habits, head to the My Decade on Xbox and create a TrueAchievements account.
It's worth noting that the tool is not an official Microsoft product, so any details you hand over will be stored with TrueAchievements.
To sign up, your gaming history must be public, so you may have to adjust your privacy settings in order to use it.
The site will crunch the numbers on the games you played and achievements you unlocked using data stored on your Xbox account.
Once that's done, it'll cough out a lengthy graphic that showcases your favourite genres, the number of titles you played and more.
One section will even estimate the "value" of the games you played based on their average price on release.
TrueAchievements gives you the option share your results to Twitter, Facebook or Reddit, if that's your thing.
In previous years, Microsoft has offered Xbox fans a "wrap-up" tool to take a look back at their past year in gaming.
However, the 2019 edition has yet to surface. PlayStation debuted its "2019 Wrap-Up" tool earlier this month.
Xbox Series X news and rumours – what we know so far
Here's what we know about the next-gen Xbox...
- Microsoft's next-gen Xbox will come out towards the end of 2020
- It was officially unveiled in December 2019 after months of rumours and speculation.
- Dubbed the Series X, Microsoft referred to the console under the development codename 'Project Scarlett' for several months
- As with the next PlayStation, it's going to use super speedy 'solid state' storage to drastically reduce or even totally eliminate loading times
- This means your games should start up almost instantly, and there won't be lengthy pauses between scenes, or when moving from one part of a game's world to another
- It's going to be able to play older games too, with Microsoft making big promises about backwards compatibility
- "Thousands of games across four console generations will look and play best on the Series X," they say, referring to the original Xbox, the Xbox 360, the Xbox One and the new console
- The third area where they matched Sony is the chips at the console's heart - the brains of the Series X is the same AMD Navi technology at the heart of Sony's next console
- It's not quite identical to the PlayStation chips, as both are custom-made for the companies in question
- AMD promised Sony's "special sauce" was built into their chips, while Microsoft describe the core of their new box is a "custom-designed AMD processor"
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer also revealed that processor would have hardware dedicated to ray-tracing
- Ray-tracing is a new technology just making it into the most expensive gaming PCs that makes lighting and sound incredibly realistic by calculating the exact path of each ray of light or sound wave through transparent objects and off reflective surfaces
- This gives you much more realistic lighting and reflections as well as much more natural looking materials and objects
- Sony has confirmed the next PlayStation will have something similar, but hasn't revealed if the console will have hardware specifically dedicated to it
- Finally, Microsoft also revealed that Halo: Infinite, which is first revealed at the same briefing last year, is going to launch with the new Xbox
- The latest chapter in the story of Master Chief will release alongside Series X devices in time for "Holidays 2020", meaning around mid-November
It's likely that achievements will remain a big part of the Xbox gaming experience when Microsoft's new console rolls around later this year.
Microsoft recently confirmed that it would release the Xbox Series X in time for "Holidays 2020", meaning October or November.
The new console will apparently run games at 4K resolution - double that of HD - with the possibility of running 8K. It will also process games faster to "eliminate" loading times.
Halo: Infinite and Hellblade II: Senua's Saga will be among the first games available on the console.
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In other news, Sony recently confirmed the PS5 release date as coming before Christmas 2020.
A recent "price leak" suggests that the PS5 could cost £250 more than its predecessor.
And we reveal the best PS5 games you can expect to play next year.
How much Xbox have you played over the past decade? Let us know in the comments!
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