Microsoft has been having a hell of a time celebrating 20 years of Xbox this week, including 76 new video games to the Xbox backward compatibility library, launching a Halo-themed Xbox Series X, and a twentieth anniversary translucent controller. But, true to the corporate’s behavior of company mischief, it’s additionally been leavening its bulletins with loads of Easter eggs.

The new {hardware} that launched this week options the perfect trying Xbox Series X console and controllers we’ve seen up to now, notably the fashionable translucent one. All of this new {hardware} additionally contains some hidden secrets and techniques, too. For instance, Reddit users have found that the Halo-themed Xbox Series X console has a hidden Zeta Halo image on the entrance.

Image: Reddit (Demon_King_Lamb)

You’ll have to shine a black or UV mild on the console to truly see this little Easter egg, however it’s a neat contact for a restricted version twentieth anniversary console that celebrates the launch of Halo: Combat Evolved and the unique Xbox in 2001.

That UV mild may even come in useful in case you’ve bought a twentieth anniversary Xbox controller. If you shine the UV mild on the packaging that the controller ships with, you’ll see the unique Duke controller that got here with the unique Xbox console in 2001.

The secrets and techniques don’t finish there, both. If you had been fortunate sufficient to safe a Halo-themed Xbox Elite 2 controller, Microsoft has packed in a particular code that allows you to add just a little controller attraction to your weapons inside Halo Infinite. It’s good for the early launch of Halo Infinite multiplayer that occurred earlier this week.

The miniature controller will connect to your weapons within the multiplayer model of the sport, bouncing round if you’re busy throwing grenades and utilizing your melee button. If you buy the NERF variations of the MA40 or the Bulldog SG, in addition they embody just a little attraction to your weapons, and even distinctive weapon skins in Halo Infinite multiplayer.

Microsoft loves to cover little Xbox-related Easter eggs in all places. A 20-year-old Xbox Easter egg was found earlier this 12 months, and Xbox chief Phil Spencer hid the Xbox Series S on his shelf earlier than it was formally introduced. Master Chief can be hidden contained in the Xbox One X using a scorpion, or a part of the fan on the Xbox Series X. We’ll hold our eyes peeled for another twentieth anniversary Xbox Easter eggs that Microsoft has hidden away.