Here's all the cool new stuff coming to your Xbox One in 2016

Your Xbox One is getting a bunch of new features soon.

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On stage at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft's Xbox division, detailed all the major updates coming to your Xbox One.

You can read a detailed breakdown of every update on Xbox's website, but here are the most notable features coming later this year:

• Cross-play with Windows 10 — Certain games will support multiplayer across Windows 10 and the Xbox One, meaning you can play with your friend who prefers to play on PC while you stay snuggled up on the couch with your Xbox One.
• Arena — Described as an "online tournaments platform," the new arena feature lets players sign up for competitive gaming tournaments and win prizes.
• Cortana — The voice-controlled digital assistant is coming to Xbox One. This will greatly expand the voice commands you can use with your Xbox One, aside from the usual "Take a screenshot" commands you can already use.
• Clubs — Similar to the "Communities" feature already available on PlayStation 4, this enables groups of like-minded players to link up. For example, you might join a "Librarians Who Knit" club if you only want to play with other people like you.
• Looking for groups — It looks like this feature tries to fix the issue of teaming up with other random players. This feature is described as a "want ad" for multiplayer, letting you specifically seek out other players of similar skill level, interests, and attitudes.

Spencer described these features as breaking down the "barriers" between different types of players. Keeping with that theme, Spencer also announced that every new Xbox One game will be compatible with every model of the Xbox One, including the upcoming Slim model and the beefed-up Scorpio model that's launching in 2017.

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