Right this moment, Crew Xbox is happy to rejoice 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 the environment. Microsoft has set formidable commitments to considerably cut back the corporate’s environmental affect and function as a carbon unfavourable, water optimistic, and nil waste firm by 2030. In assist of this, Xbox can be working to scale back its unfavourable environmental affect whereas persevering with to supply the high-quality gaming merchandise and experiences our followers know and love.
Crew Xbox is making modifications throughout all phases of the product lifecycle to be able to meet our company sustainability commitments. You may learn extra about these efforts and what you are able to do to assist cut back your affect in our current Xbox Sustainability wire publish.
To seek out extra methods you may cut back your affect on the atmosphere whereas enjoying within the Xbox ecosystem, take a look at what you are able to do in our newest weblog publish. 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 stay up for celebrating all that Xbox is doing to drive change and make optimistic affect in sustainable gaming. Listed here are a number of the ways in which crew Xbox is celebrating and rising environmental consciousness on Earth Day:
Gaming and Influence with Microsoft Rewards: World Wildlife Fund, Water.org, and The Nature Conservancy
Microsoft Rewards members in the USA can earn and donate factors to assist choose environmental organizations with Xbox. The under organizations shall be featured on console all through April:
- World Wildlife Fund – Because the world’s main conservation group, WWF works in almost 100 nations. At each degree, they collaborate with folks world wide to develop and ship modern options that shield communities, wildlife, and the locations during which they dwell. Their mission is to preserve nature and cut back probably the most urgent threats to the range of life on Earth.
- Water.org – 1 in 10 folks lack entry to secure water and 1 in 4 folks lack entry to a bathroom. Water.org is a world nonprofit group working to vary this. They assist folks dwelling in poverty get entry to secure water and sanitation at house – giving ladies hope, youngsters well being and households a vibrant future.
- The Nature Conservancy – The Nature Conservancy is a world environmental nonprofit working to create a world the place folks 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. Study extra about this program right here and plant your tree right this moment!
Xbox avid gamers can earn Microsoft Rewards factors in numerous methods, reminiscent of 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 right this moment and donate by means of Xbox.
Xbox Performs Celebrating Earth Day week with Streamer Takeovers
Throughout the week of April 18 by means of 22, the Xbox Twitch Channel celebrated Earth Day by that includes environmentally targeted streamer takeovers.
Discover Superb Worlds This Earth Day with Xbox Sport Move
Whereas many followers proceed to expertise widespread social distancing and isolation, we invite our Xbox neighborhood to discover superb worlds by means of gaming! From constructing, crafting, or exploration on earth or different worlds, Xbox Sport Move 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. Get pleasure from exploring!
Featured Video games
- Jurassic World Evolution (Cloud, Console): Bioengineer dinosaurs that suppose, 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 method.
- Subnautica: Under Zero (Cloud, Console, PC): Dive right into a freezing underwater journey on an alien planet. Under Zero is ready 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, sources, and infinite prospects. What you do on this recreation is totally as much as you—gathering sources, harvesting crops, automating productions, preventing in opposition to bosses, capturing enemies, constructing a stunning 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 method by means of a darkish Nordic forest to discover its dwelling, respiration world – one full of secrets and techniques, legends, and mystical creatures.
Platform and recreation availability will fluctuate by area. Study extra about platform and recreation 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 world wide 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 be launching a brand new Earth Day assortment of merchandise on Minecraftshop.com which can 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 Reworking 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 fun 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 right this moment to gamers in Forza Horizon 5 and Forza Horizon 4. Control the Forza Horizon Twitter to see when it’s been delivered to your in-game Message Middle.
In Forza Motorsport 7, gamers will obtain the identical automobile and themed livery, in addition to uncommon Earth Day-themed driver gear, by collaborating within the “Have fun 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 dwell at PAX on the Principal Theater and on Twitch! Everybody can tune in on April 23 at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT to look at the vote and take a look at upcoming unreleased content material to the sport. Which design shall be positioned on a t-shirt and offered in our retailer, with proceeds going to the Captain Planet Basis? Try the PAX panel dwell to search out out! Study extra concerning 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 few a long time, sustainability has develop into a related subject mentioned throughout the globe. An urgency to guard the world’s sources, habitats and ecosystems has quickly elevated because the impacts of world local weather change and finite sources develop into extra noticeable with every passing day. Worldwide Mom Earth Day was established as a day to acknowledge, educate and urge folks to behave, shield, and respect the character surrounding them. Study 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 rejoice our huge and distinctive planet, and people who work to look after and maintain its well being and wonder for generations to take pleasure in. Expertise panoramas of our world by means of 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 study extra about Microsoft’s dedication to Sustainability and how one can contribute by means of your individual conservation efforts, click on right here.
Xbox Honors Earth Day with a New Gamerpic, Profile Theme, and Avatar Objects!
In partnership with the Sustainability crew 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 cell and Sport Bar), however avid gamers can change the profile theme on the console and the Xbox app on PC. Get your avatar objects right here.
We invite you to affix us on our continued journey and study extra about Xbox’s sustainability efforts at our all-new Sustainability Hub.
