The Avatar Store was launched as "Avatar Marketplace" on August 11, 2009, allowing users to buy clothes and props using their Xbox Live account. Xbox Avatars app, showing the welcome page of the Avatar Store on Windows 10 – This color indicates Xbox 360 games that are compatible with Xbox One. – This color indicates that the game is no longer available for download. There are currently no Xbox One games that support Avatars, although some Xbox 360 games that did support them were made backwards compatible for the Xbox One. The player must be signed into Xbox Live to receive the game update for those games. Some games (marked with an asterisk) get updated to support Avatars when the user updates to the New Xbox Experience dashboard. This is a list of games on the Xbox 360 video game console (both retail and Xbox Live Arcade games) that use Avatars. The new avatar system will be released in early 2018. On June 13, 2017, during E3 2017, Microsoft announced a complete overhaul of the Avatars, providing a much greater emphasis of customization and inclusiveness, especially by adding amputees and gender neutral clothing. Across all of these experiences, users will have access to their entire closet of items that they've purchased or have been awarded throughout the Xbox ecosystem.
Users can edit their avatar using the Xbox Avatars application on an Xbox console, Windows 10 or Windows 10 Mobile device or by using the Microsoft Silverlight based editor on. With the release of Windows 10 and the New Xbox One Experience, the rendering of the Avatars has been changed to offer a higher quality of rendering across different devices. It was announced at Game Developers Conference on Mathat the XNA framework 3.1 would have an API to support Avatars in indie games.
This may change sometime in the future, though presumably in Microsoft's own games if it ever happens, to monitor their usage in mature games. Xbox Live GM Ben Kilgore stated in 2008 that Avatars will only be available for games that have an E10+ rating or lower only (featuring content that is considered suitable for children under 10 years of age). They can then display a 2D picture of their Avatar on their Gamercard (although they are still free to use their previous picture should they so choose). Users are able to customize body shape, gender, facial features, hair style, clothing, and "props".
Avatars debuted on the Xbox 360 as part of the "New Xbox Experience" system update released on November 19, 2008. Xbox Live Avatars (also known as XLA's) are avatars and characters that represent users of the Xbox Live service on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One video game consoles, Windows 10, and Windows 10 Mobile.
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