{"id":32458,"date":"2022-06-01T19:02:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/xbox-releasing-brand-new-controller-design-for-pride-month\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T19:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T19:02:28","slug":"xbox-releasing-brand-new-controller-design-for-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/xbox-releasing-brand-new-controller-design-for-pride-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox releasing brand new controller design for Pride Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>To celebrate Pride Month, Xbox is releasing a brand new controller design that incorporates 34 community flags.\n<\/p>\n<p>The flags are in &#8220;a fine, interwoven manner to celebrate the nuance, complexity, intersectionality, and strength of the many LGBTQIA + communities&#8221;, explains an Xbox Wire post.\n<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Xbox created a limited number of Pride controllers but many players wanted it to be universally available.  This year&#8217;s controller will therefore be customizable in the Xbox Design Lab.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But this isn&#8217;t just a controller. It&#8217;s a symbol of the LGBTQIA + communities that inspired it, and a call to continue efforts toward inclusion and representation across all gaming spaces,&#8221; reads the post.\n<\/p>\n<p>The controller will be available from 9th June via Xbox Design Lab. But Xbox has other Pride celebrations planned too.\n<\/p>\n<p>If a controller wasn&#8217;t enough, there&#8217;s also a Pride merch collection of apparel available from the Xbox Gear Shop.\n<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft will be donating $ 170,000 to LGBTQIA + nonprofits OutRight Action International, African Rainbow Family, National Center for Transgender Equality, Mermaids, Lavender Rights Project and Fulcrum UA &#8220;to help in the fight for LGBTQIA + equity and equality&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Rewards members in the US and UK can also earn and donate points to organizations supporting LGBTQIA + communities: Mermaids, OutRight Action International, and The National Center for Transgender Equality.\n<\/p>\n<p>On the community side, stories about representation in gaming from LGBTQIA + Xbox Ambassadors will be spotlighted and Xbox Plays will be dedicating its livestreams to LGBTQIA + streamers on Twitch.\n<\/p>\n<p>Dontnod&#8217;s award-winning narrative game Tell Me Why will be free on Xbox consoles and PC for June, plus the post highlights other LGBTQIA + games.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    function appendFacebookPixels() {\n      if (window.facebookPixelsDone) return;\n      !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n      {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n      n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n      if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n      n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n      t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n      s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>        fbq('init', '560747571485047');\n        fbq('init', '738979179819818');<\/p>\n<p>      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      window.facebookPixelsDone = true;<\/p>\n<p>      window.dispatchEvent(new Event('BrockmanFacebookPixelsEnabled'));\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    window.addEventListener('BrockmanTargetingCookiesAllowed', appendFacebookPixels);\n  <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate Pride Month, Xbox is releasing a brand new controller design that incorporates 34 community flags. The flags are in &#8220;a fine, interwoven manner to celebrate the nuance, complexity, intersectionality, and strength of the many LGBTQIA + communities&#8221;, explains an Xbox Wire post. Last year, Xbox created a limited number of Pride controllers but &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/xbox-releasing-brand-new-controller-design-for-pride-month\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Xbox releasing brand new controller design for Pride Month<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.reedpopcdn.com\/XBOX_PRIDE_CONTROLLER_16x9-8f7ce46ae3d6f9581ce9.png\/BROK\/thumbnail\/1600x900\/format\/jpg\/quality\/80\/XBOX_PRIDE_CONTROLLER_16x9-8f7ce46ae3d6f9581ce9.png?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.reedpopcdn.com\/XBOX_PRIDE_CONTROLLER_16x9-8f7ce46ae3d6f9581ce9.png\/BROK\/thumbnail\/1600x900\/format\/jpg\/quality\/80\/XBOX_PRIDE_CONTROLLER_16x9-8f7ce46ae3d6f9581ce9.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}