Xbox One's new Clubs, LFG, and Group Messaging are rolling out to all owners in a big update

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Today the Xbox One public receives most of the big new features that Microsoft teased back at E3 in June: player-run Clubs, the LFG ("Looking For Group") tool, group messaging, and achievement rarity. You'll find all that in the Xbox Holiday Update, which is currently rolling out to all Xbox One players as well as Xbox App users on other platforms.

The new socially-oriented features first rolled out to Xbox Live Preview Program members in September, but one feature will remain in testing. Arena, which lets players participate in regularly scheduled, officially organized competitive multiplayer events, won't be released to the general public until after the holidays. Preview program members have been testing it out with daily Killer Instinct tournaments for a few weeks now.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.