Xbox Skill lets Alexa or Cortana control your Xbox One

7 Sep 2018

Steve Wright

The Xbox One can now be operated by Amazon Alexa or Microsoft Cortana thanks to Xbox Skill.

Xbox Skill will lets players turn their consoles on and off, start games and apps, start and stop Mixer streams, control volume, control Game DVR and more. You know, all the things Kinect used to do on the console (not that we’re bitter…)

The feature is slowly rolling out to Xbox Insiders before full release; you’ll know you have it when you spot a Digital Assistant option under Settings.

A full list of Xbox Skill commands can be found right here.

What do you make of the feature? Does it make you miss Kinect?

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.