Skype for Xbox One Receives Many New Features

Voice-over-IP service Skype has announced a number of new features and improvements for its first update to Skype for Xbox One.

Firstly, improvements have been made to keep conversations via Xbox One in sync, with push notifications added to alert users when a new message arrives. The chat history has also been lengthened to 1000 messages, rather than just displaying messages from the past week.

There's now a feature to filter contacts by whether they're currently online, and a tutorial has been added for those new to the whole chat-through-your-Xbox thing.

The most thrilling new feature, above all, is the addition of Captain America-themed "Winter Soldier" emoticons, which come to regular Skype as well as Skype for Xbox One. Skype tell us that these limited-edition emoticons will allow us all to "convey even more action-packed emotion with your Skype friends." Now that's the kind of new feature we were all looking forward to.

Skype of Xbox One is available to players with an Xbox Live Gold membership. For a run-through of how to use Skype while gaming on the Xbox One, check out our wiki page.

One thing MS is certainly delivering on is that they're committed to improving the console and it's features whenever possible and they definitely listen to feedback.

Bravo MS on that

Exciting.

Awwww sheeeeeeeeiiiiiiiittttt skype

system seller

xbox won

Lol freedomfreelife post about apps "omg appbox1 so amazing!!! Skype twitch ms is teh best teh cloud coming to with the secret sauce!!! PS4 has no apps so it Le sucks!!" Seriously TC get a life, get laid you're obviously desperate for attention.

Where did he mention the PS4 anywhere in his post?

@CloudStrife213: You obviously don't know TC he's a pure lem and has made these topics countless times whether he mentioned it or not, it's intended everyone knows that

FaceTime outclasses Skypw by far.

Any good news for the company fanboys don't like seems to be misconstrued as fanboyism.

I bet you would not be saying these things if this was good news regarding the PS4.

You just proved that you nobody else than a 3 year old kid. Done, you are ignored.

you can get skype anywhere. hell i have it on my phone

Skype? Never heard of it.

You have to hold phone to talk. With Xbox One you can play while Skype, or watch movie, doing food or anything you can do and talk with Skype. With Phone you can´t

All at the cost of OS ram.

But then again while we're busy pointing fingers at the X1 for reserving 3 GB of ram the PS4 is seemingly more guilty by reserving 3.5 GB ram.

It's like Sony was so freaked out that they missed out on party chat last gen they've overreacted. Hopefully they'll free up some of that RAM for gaming. I'm not mad at the X1 and I think it fills a niche for a more total entertainment package, but IMO there should always be one more bare bones console that actually does what 95% of people expect from a console.

PLAY GAMES!!!!!!!!!

and nobody gives a shit

@FreedomFreeLife: You know you can buy a phone stand for like 10$ right?

Doesn't matter to me, it's still behind a paywall