Microsoft is celebrating 20 years of Xbox in secret style

Microsoft has been having a hell of a metre celebrating 20 years of Xbox this week, adding 76 new games to the Xbox backward compatibility library, launching a Halo-themed Xbox Serial X, and a 20th anniversary semitransparent controller. Just, truthful to the company's use of corporal roguery, it's also been leaven its announcements with plenty of Easter eggs.

The modern hardware that launched this calendar week features the best sounding Xbox Series X console and controllers we've seen hitherto, particularly the modernistic translucent one. All of this new-sprung hardware also includes some obscure secrets, excessively. For exemplar, Reddit users feature disclosed that the Halo-themed Xbox Series X console has a hidden Zeta Halo symbol on the front.

You'll deman to shine a black or UV light along the console to actually see this little Easter egg, only it's a neat touch for a limited version 20th anniversary cabinet that celebrates the set up of Halo: Fighting Evolved and the original Xbox in 2001.

That UV lighter will also follow in W. C. Handy if you've purchased a 20th day of remembrance Xbox controller. If you shine the UV light on the packaging that the controller ships with, you'll go through the original Duke controller that came with the original Xbox soothe in 2001.

The secrets don't end thither, either. If you were lucky enough to secure a Anulus-themed Xbox Elite 2 restrainer, Microsoft has compact in a special code that lets you add a little controller influence to your guns inside Halo Infinite. IT's perfect for the azoic launch of Halo Infinite multiplayer that took place earlier this week.

The miniature controller will go with your weapons in the multiplayer version of the stake, bouncy around when you're busy throwing grenades and victimisation your melee clit. If you buy the NERF versions of the MA40 or the Bulldog SG, they also include a little charm for your weapons, and even unique artillery skins in Halo Infinite multiplayer.

Microsoft loves to blot out little Xbox-related Easter eggs everywhere. A 20-year-old Xbox Easter egg was discovered earlier this year, and Xbox chief Phil Spencer hid the Xbox Series S on his shelf before it was officially announced. Master Chief is also hidden inside the Xbox One X riding a scorpion, or part of the fan on the Xbox Series X. We'll keep our eyes stark naked for any other 20th day of remembrance Xbox Easter eggs that Microsoft has hidden away.