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Top Sports Games for Xbox One, From Football to Tennis to F1
If you love to play sports games on your Xbox One console, and are looking for some titles, here are some popular ones that you might want to check out.
1. Fifa 21 (Standard Edition)
Fifa 21 Standard Edition features 100 icon players in the Ultimate Team. There are 11 new names like Eric Cantona, Samuel Eto’o, Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Davor Šuker, Fernando Torres, and Xavi. The game features great playing dynamics and graphics. Additionally, the Ultimate Team has a co-op gameplay feature.
Fifa 21 comes with more options in match simulation in the Career Mode.
2. NBA 2K19
NBA 2K19 is the 20th game in the NBA 2K series, and features MyTeam mode. This mode allows the player to build a team from scratch, and choose team name, select players, jerseys, logos, coach, court, and compete with their team in basketball tournament-style competition. They purchase card packs with virtual currency. There is a new type of card, called Heat Check, in this edition.
NBA 2K19 MyTeam gets an Unlimited mode, where players compete for rewards.
3. Tennis World Tour
Tennis World Tour brings realistic movements and animations that are developed using motion capture technology. It gives players an idea of the shots used in modern tennis, including slice, lob, top spin, among others. The game contains 18 different courts with five different surfaces: hard, clay, grass, carpet and even hardwood.
Tennis World Tour also gets a Career Mode to create a player for tournaments, management, among others.
4. Fifa 18
Fifa 18 features 52 fully licensed stadiums from 12 countries, 30 generic fields for a total of 82 arenas. It has all 20 Premier League stadia, and the commentators are Martin Tyler and Alan Smith. In addition, the game gets Alan McInally for in-game score updates, and Geoff Shreeves for injury reports. The story-based mode “The Journey” — introduced in Fifa 17 — gets a continuation in “The Journey: Hunter Returns”.
Football stars Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe also make cameo appearances.
5. F1 2018 Headline Edition
F1 2018 has a revised “Career Mode” and comes with a simplified system. The system allows the player to easily develop the engine, chassis and aerodynamics of a car by spending “development points” earned by meeting research and development targets during free practice sessions.
F1 2018 Headline Edition features the full roster of official drivers and teams.
6. WWE 2K19
WWE 2K19 has a faster, and more fluid gameplay as compared to previous editions, the developers say. It includes the 2K Showcase Mode in which the player controls 11 different models of Daniel Bryan. There are also Tower Modes: Gauntlet Tower, in which the player has to complete a challenge in one go, and Steps Tower in which players can complete stages step by step.
WWE 2K19 has a new Career Mode with a linear storyline in which a player is developed to be a top superstar.
7. NBA 2K20
NBA 2K20 features multiple game modes as well as refined graphics and gameplay. It features teams from past NBA games, which include 1995–96 Chicago Bulls, 1985–86 Boston Celtics, the 2015-16 Cleveland Cavaliers, and the 2013-14 San Antonio Spurs. It is also the first game to have all twelve teams from the WNBA.
NBA 2K20 offers great player control, customisation, and an open-world neighbourhood.
Top Sports Games for Xbox One, From Football to Tennis to F1
Product Name | Price in India |
---|---|
fifa 18 (xbox one) (Xbox One) | ₹ 928 |
NBA 2K19 – Xbox One | ₹ 999 |
F1 2018 Headline Edition (Xbox One) | ₹ 1,240 |
NBA 2K20 (Xbox One) | ₹ 1,499 |
XB1 Tennis World Tour (Xbox One) | ₹ 1,499 |
FIFA 21 Standard Edition (Xbox One) | ₹ 1,121 |
WWE 2K19 (Xbox One) WITH BONUS DLC | ₹ 1,799 |
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Microsoft Partners With Inworld to Bring AI Game Development Tools to Xbox
“At Xbox, we believe that with better tools, creators can make even more extraordinary games,” Haiyan Zhang, GM, Xbox Gaming AI, said in a blog post. “This partnership will bring together: Inworld’s expertise in working with generative AI models for character development, Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions including Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Research’s technical insights into the future of play, and Team Xbox’s strengths in revolutionizing accessible and responsible creator tools for all developers.”
The aforementioned AI design copilot is a toolset that will help game designers turn prompts into scripts and dialogue trees. In contrast, the character runtime will enable dynamically generated plot beats and quests. We’ve already seen heavy AI integration in games by way of procedural generation — a more recent example being the 1000+ planets in Starfield. Not to mention, enemy AI has been around for way longer.
Inworld made headlines in August when it launched a modded story mode for Grand Theft Auto V, Sentient Streets, in which players had to investigate the rise of a bizarre AI-worshipping cult — a segment loaded with characters that spoke in AI-generated dialogue, on the fly. The mod was later taken down by publisher Take-Two, leaving a permanent strike on the creator Bloc’s YouTube channel. As per The Verge, Inworld’s AI technology can also be used for narration in top-down RPGs to warn players about any events awaiting off-screen and respond to questions like we’ve seen in the past year with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Microsoft has also been heavily banking on artificial intelligence, having made a $10 billion (about Rs. 83,254 crore) investment in OpenAI. The company has also integrated AI tools into its popular suite of services and also added an AI copilot to Windows.
Despite being a Microsoft-affiliated AI toolset, it would be interesting to see whether titles using them will be allowed to thrive on other platforms. In July, Valve claimed that it would be cracking down on games that included AI-generated assets if the developer didn’t own the copyright to the piece of art. For the uninitiated, when you insert a prompt to create something in AI, the software simply repurposes existing assets found online and mushes them together — basically stealing from other artists and writers without appropriate commercial licenses. Infringing them would lead to the game not being distributed on Steam, forcing the developers to seek proper licenses for the asset by reaching out to the AI companies involved. It’s unclear how Microsoft’s partnership will play out — as long as AI content is being used as a catalyst to innovate and create something new, it should be fine.
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BSNL Offers Free 4G SIM Upgrade: Here’s How to Get It
In a post on X shared by BSNL’s Andhra Pradesh (@bsnl_ap_circle) unit, the company confirmed that BSNL users can upgrade their older 2G or 3G SIMs to a 4G SIM for free. Not only will the upgrade be free, but a promotional image shared with the post suggests that users who opt for the upgrade will also receive 4GB of free data that will be valid for three months. It is speculated that BSNL is aiming to boost its upcoming 4G services with this offer. The announcement was first spotted by Telecom Talk.
To access the free data offer and the free upgrade, BSNL users are requested to get in touch with executives at BSNL’s Customer Service Centre, franchisee or retailer stores, or contact one of their Direct Selling Agents (DSA). The promo image also adds in a finer print that the offer is available with certain terms and conditions, but hasn’t detailed any, so far.
Reliance’s Jio recently launched the 4G-supported Bharat B1 feature phone in India. The handset is priced at Rs. 1,299 in India. Alongside 4G connectivity, the phone comes with JioCinema and JioSaavn applications pre-installed.
The Jio Bharat B1 is equipped with the JioPay application, which is said to allow users to make UPI payments. Aiming to increase accessibility, the phone supports 23 languages overall, including multiple regional languages.
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Realme GT 5 Pro Teased to Feature 3,000 Nits Display; More Details Revealed
Realme, via Weibo, announced the arrival of the Realme GT 5 Pro in China. The display of the handset is confirmed to offer 3000 nits peak brightness. It has also been teased to offer heat dissipation with a surface area of around 10,000mm2. It is confirmed to ship with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. The post doesn’t specify the exact launch date of the smartphone, however, given the release of the teasers, the launch could be just around the corner.
The Realme GT 5 Pro has been in the news a lot lately. It is expected to feature a 6.78-inch (1,264×2,780 pixels) AMOLED display and is tipped to come in 8GB, 12GB, and 16GB RAM options along with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB inbuilt storage options.
For optics, the Realme GT 5 Pro is said to have a triple rear camera unit comprising two 50-megapixel sensors and an 8-megapixel shooter at the rear. The camera setup might include a Sony LYTIA LYT808 sensor, an OmniVision OV08D10 secondary sensor, and a Sony IMX890 telephoto sensor. For selfies, there could be a 32-megapixel sensor at the front. It is said to carry a 5,400mAh battery with support for 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging.
The Realme GT 5 Pro is expected to come with upgrades over Realme GT 5. The latter was launched in China in August with a price tag of CNY 2,999 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
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