Happy holidays from the Xbox Insider Team! We all hope you’re taking this time to celebrate with friends and family and catch up on your gaming backlog. Recently, we had the chance to get together as a team to celebrate another successful year with you, our Xbox Insider community! Not only that, but we also took the chance to wish a happy anniversary to the Xbox Insider Blog. Unveiled in October... more.

Update: Backpack Kid, the minor who allegedly originated the Floss dance that has become a core part of Fortnite's cultural identity, is also filing suit against Epic, according to TMZ. To be more accurate, his mother and his manager are filing suit over the use of his dance. The firm representing the sixteen year-old are also suing 2K Games for t... more.

Microsoft corporate vice president and head of 343 Industries Bonnie Ross is set to become The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' 23rd Hall of Fame recipient. Ross has been a part of the game industry since 1994, when she joined Microsoft's PC sports division to work on NBA Full Court Press. Since then, Ross has helped with the development of several titles, including Dungeon Siege, Gears of... more.

Hideki Kamiya of PlatinumGames, famed Japanese director behind games like Devil May Cry, Okami, and Bayonetta, has already gotten a bit of Smash Bros. representation from the Umbran witch. She was introduced as DLC in the last Super Smash Bros. game and is part of the base roster in Ultimate, but Kamiya was seemingly looking for more. The tweet, ... more.

As 4 million players have been writing their own survival story in State of Decay 2, they’ve been enjoying BAFTA award-winning and Billboard / MTV VMA nominated Danish composer’s Jesper Kyd soundtrack, which is available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon. Starting today, for fans who want to experience Jesper’s soundtrack full of hope for survival and a better tomorrow in full, they can purc... more.

Update (12/18/18 at 12:20 p.m.): During a livestream today, Media Molecule announced that Dreams is getting a closed beta beginning tomorrow. Invites will be sent exclusively to those following Media Molecule's community newsletter, and it will last from December 19 to January 21. For the open beta, it won't begin until early next year. No date ... more.

Arkham Knight was the antagonist in Rocksteady Studios' 2015 release Batman: Arkham Knight (surprise). The studio made a big deal about the fact that it created the character specifically for the game, but now Arkham Knight has come full circle and will appear within the comics. The 1,000th issue of Detective Comics is right around the corner. DC Comics plans to release this milestone in March, a... more.

The NPD Group (via a Nintendo press release) has declared that through its first 21 months on sale in the U.S., Nintendo's Switch console is the fastest-selling system of this generation when compared to the other consoles over the same period. From March 2017 to November 2018 the Switch sold more than 8.7 million units. Nintendo has also annou... more.

Windows Central is reporting from multiple sources that Microsoft's full-featured next-gen system is codenamed Anaconda, while the more pared-down, streaming version is codenamed Lockhart. At E3 this year it was reported that Microsoft is internally referring to its next-gen family of systems as "Scarlett," and Windows Central's recent report puts Anaconda and Lockhart within that family. Anacon... more.

A few weeks ago, DICE and EA were openly pontificating the ramifications of changing the time-to-kill value, basically how long it takes to kill an opponent, in Battlefield V multiplayer. While players enjoyed being able to kill opponents faster, they also disliked being killed so quickly, so DICE set up different servers to study and see how thin... more.