Right now, Group Xbox is happy to have fun Earth Day. Our mission is to carry the enjoyment and neighborhood of gaming to everybody on the planet. We additionally acknowledge the affect that gaming has on our surroundings. Microsoft has set bold commitments to considerably scale back the corporate’s environmental affect and function as a carbon adverse, water constructive, and nil waste firm by 2030. In assist of this, Xbox can also be working to cut back its adverse environmental affect whereas persevering with to provide the high-quality gaming merchandise and experiences our followers know and love.
Group Xbox is making modifications throughout all phases of the product lifecycle so as to meet our company sustainability commitments. You possibly can learn extra about these efforts and what you are able to do to assist scale back your affect in our current Xbox Sustainability wire submit.
To seek out extra methods you possibly can scale back your affect on the setting whereas enjoying within the Xbox ecosystem, try what you are able to do in our newest weblog submit. We additionally not too long ago launched our all new Xbox Sustainability Hub. We invite the neighborhood to go to and keep present with the newest updates from Xbox.
We look ahead to celebrating all that Xbox is doing to drive change and make constructive affect in sustainable gaming. Listed here are a number of the ways in which group Xbox is celebrating and rising environmental consciousness on Earth Day:
Gaming and Impression with Microsoft Rewards: World Wildlife Fund, Water.org, and The Nature Conservancy
Microsoft Rewards members in the US can earn and donate factors to assist choose environmental organizations with Xbox. The beneath organizations shall be featured on console all through April:
- World Wildlife Fund – Because the world’s main conservation group, WWF works in almost 100 international locations. At each stage, they collaborate with individuals around the globe to develop and ship modern options that defend communities, wildlife, and the locations wherein they stay. Their mission is to preserve nature and scale back probably the most urgent threats to the range of life on Earth.
- Water.org – 1 in 10 individuals lack entry to secure water and 1 in 4 individuals lack entry to a rest room. Water.org is a world nonprofit group working to alter this. They assist individuals dwelling in poverty get entry to secure water and sanitation at house – giving girls hope, youngsters well being and households a brilliant future.
- The Nature Conservancy – The Nature Conservancy is a world environmental nonprofit working to create a world the place individuals and nature can thrive. Their mission is to preserve the lands and waters on which all life relies upon.
- Moreover, for each greenback that Microsoft Rewards donates in April, The Nature Conservancy will plant a tree as a part of their Plant A Billion Bushes program. Be taught extra about this program right here and plant your tree as we speak!
Xbox players can earn Microsoft Rewards factors in varied methods, akin to enjoying or buying video games after downloading the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox. Earn factors and redeem them for actual rewards. Be a part of us as we speak and donate via Xbox.
Xbox Performs Celebrating Earth Day week with Streamer Takeovers
In the course of the week of April 18 via 22, the Xbox Twitch Channel celebrated Earth Day by that includes environmentally targeted streamer takeovers.
Discover Wonderful Worlds This Earth Day with Xbox Sport Cross
Whereas many followers proceed to expertise widespread social distancing and isolation, we invite our Xbox neighborhood to discover superb worlds via gaming! From constructing, crafting, or exploration on earth or different worlds, Xbox Sport Cross has created an Earth Day impressed assortment. Different video games characteristic survival themes in difficult environments and components of making or caring for all times in sustainable methods. Take pleasure in exploring!
Featured Video games
- Jurassic World Evolution (Cloud, Console): Bioengineer dinosaurs that assume, really feel and react intelligently to the world round them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an unsure world the place life all the time finds a approach.
- Subnautica: Beneath Zero (Cloud, Console, PC): Dive right into a freezing underwater journey on an alien planet. Beneath Zero is about two years after the unique Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the reality behind a lethal cover-up. Survive by constructing habitats, crafting instruments, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
- Craftopia (Cloud, Console, PC): Arrive at a small island full of animals, assets, and infinite potentialities. What you do on this sport is totally as much as you—gathering assets, harvesting crops, automating productions, combating in opposition to bosses, capturing enemies, constructing a beautiful home, unlocking new islands, exploring the world, and extra! What’s going to you do when you are able to do something you’ve ever dreamt?
- Fe (Console, PC): Uncover a world you’ll by no means wish to depart. Run, climb, and glide your approach via a darkish Nordic forest to discover its dwelling, respiratory world – one full of secrets and techniques, legends, and mystical creatures.
Platform and sport availability will range by area. Be taught extra about platform and sport availability.
Minecraft Celebrates Earth Day with New Recycled and Natural Content material Product, Studying Content material, and Construct Challenges
In celebration of Earth Day, Mojang Studios is launching new studying content material and a month-to-month construct problem for Minecraft: Schooling Version. Lecture rooms around the globe are tuning in for digital classes the place college students meet sustainability consultants and discover Local weather Futures, a set of Minecraft worlds created in partnership with Met Workplace. Microsoft and Xbox labored with the UK Authorities’s Setting Company to develop a flood preparedness world for Minecraft: Schooling Version, which was additionally launched in UK colleges this month. Mojang can also be launching a brand new Earth Day assortment of merchandise on Minecraftshop.com which might be produced from natural or recycled content material, together with a brand new Minecraft playset by Mattel. Mattel shares our sustainable imaginative and prescient by highlighting that the brand new Minecraft Remodeling Turtle Hideout Playset is produced from a minimal of 20 p.c recycled ocean-bound plastic. Discover extra actions for Earth Day with Minecraft.
Hog Wild Nameplate for Halo: The Grasp Chief Assortment
In Halo: The Grasp Chief Assortment, our gamers can customise their profile with particular nameplates commemorating in-game actions or celebrating particular occasions. To carry consciousness to the celebration of Earth Day, any gamers who log in from April 20 to 27 will obtain this particular ‘Hog Wild’ nameplate, a not-so-subtle nod to the Warthog automobile!
Have a good time Earth Day with Forza
Impressed by Xbox’s Earth Day and sustainability visible design, this chameleon-themed livery (with polychromatic rims) adorns the 2015 BMW i8, a hybrid, plug-in electrical automobile. The Earth Day livery is being gifted as we speak to gamers in Forza Horizon 5 and Forza Horizon 4. Keep watch over the Forza Horizon Twitter to see when it’s been delivered to your in-game Message Heart.
In Forza Motorsport 7, gamers will obtain the identical automotive and themed livery, in addition to uncommon Earth Day-themed driver gear, by taking part within the “Have a good time Earth Day” Rivals occasion set on the picturesque rolling hills of Virginia Worldwide Raceway. The occasion ends April twenty sixth.
Obsidian’s Grounded Celebrates Earth Day with Artwork Contest and T-Shirt Gross sales Benefiting Captain Planet Basis!
For Earth Day, Grounded hosted the #FrankenArtContest benefitting the Captain Planet Basis! Throughout this occasion, we requested our neighborhood to create a design worthy of being printed on a t-shirt utilizing the in-game Frankenline. The finalists are introduced, and the winners’ voting will occur stay at PAX on the Important Theater and on Twitch! Everybody can tune in on April 23 at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT to observe the vote and take a look at upcoming unreleased content material to the sport. Which design shall be positioned on a t-shirt and bought in our retailer, with proceeds going to the Captain Planet Basis? Try the PAX panel stay to search out out! Be taught extra in regards to the contest and skim the principles right here. Purchase your Grounded Gear right here!
Age of Empires Honors the Historical past of Earth Day
Over the previous couple of a long time, sustainability has turn into a related matter mentioned throughout the globe. An urgency to guard the world’s assets, habitats and ecosystems has quickly elevated because the impacts of worldwide local weather change and finite assets turn into extra noticeable with every passing day. Worldwide Mom Earth Day was established as a day to acknowledge, educate and urge individuals to behave, defend, and respect the character surrounding them. Be taught extra about Worldwide Mom Earth Day with Age of Empires as they discover how the world is standing united to avoid wasting our planet.
Microsoft Informal Video games Celebrates Earth’s Magnificence
This month we have fun our huge and distinctive planet, and people who work to take care of and maintain its well being and wonder for generations to take pleasure in. Expertise panoramas of our world via the sensible brush strokes of artists who’ve captured its magnificence within the latest Microsoft Jigsaw assortment – Earth on Canvas. Click on right here for assortment particulars. To be taught extra about Microsoft’s dedication to Sustainability and how one can contribute via your personal conservation efforts, click on right here.
Xbox Honors Earth Day with a New Gamerpic, Profile Theme, and Avatar Objects!
In partnership with the Sustainability group at Xbox, we’re introducing a brand new gamerpic, profile themes, and avatar objects! The gamerpic and profile theme shall be obtainable on console and the Xbox PC app. The profile theme and gamerpic shall be seen on all platforms (together with cellular and Sport Bar), however players can change the profile theme on the console and the Xbox app on PC. Get your avatar objects right here.
We invite you to hitch us on our continued journey and be taught extra about Xbox’s sustainability efforts at our all-new Sustainability Hub.
