Blizzard hosted its annual BlizzCon in Los Angeles this year, and made quite a few announcements – some might even be significant for humanity; on Day 2, Blizzard announced that Diablo 3 Seasons are coming to the Xbox One. If you are not aware of what Diablo 3 Seasons are …
Read More »Facebook announces Gameroom, a gaming platform for Windows
Facebook has announced a brand-new PC gaming platform, and it’s exactly how you would imagine it to be. Gameroom brings the infamous Facebook games to the PC – almost natively. Gameroom sits in a weird place – at least for now; it isn’t a Steam competitor (for reasons explained below), …
Read More »Microsoft announces Microsoft Teams, its very own Slack competitor
After several weeks of leaked screenshots and rumors, Microsoft finally announced Microsoft Teams at the Office event in Manhattan. Microsoft Teams is meant for businesses that are already knee-deep in Microsoft’s ecosystem with Office 365. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKU-FMzZFF0 Teams is supposed to be a Slack competitor – it offers everything that Slack …
Read More »Atari is bringing 100 of its most popular classic titles to the Xbox One
It can be hard to support backwards compatibility on a console – even within the same console family; it usually requires direct support from the publishers to make the games run on the latest generation hardware – Atari has done just that. Atari is releasing 100 of its most popular …
Read More »Xbox One is getting Blu-ray write and re-write support via a software update
The latest generation of consoles are much more than simply a gaming console – in fact, Microsoft advertised the Xbox One as an entertainment hub for everything. The PS4 and Xbox One, both come with Blu-ray players, but one can do more than the other. Mike Ybarra from the Xbox …
Read More »Microsoft introduces Carrier Billing for Xbox Store
Carrier Billing isn’t the most popular way to pay for things – after all, that’s what credit and debit cards are for; however, it can be extremely convenient at times to be able to pay for things and have the charges appear on your normal phone bills. Microsoft already supports …
Read More »Microsoft Teams iOS app makes an appearance ahead of Microsoft’s Office event
Microsoft’s planned Office event is merely hours away, but we are starting to see some leaks come out of it. Skype Teams first showed up two months ago, and since then have apparently gone through a marketing revamp. Skype Teams seems to be now called Microsoft Teams – but it’s …
Read More »Google discloses major Windows vulnerability, Microsoft to release fix on November 8th
The giants are at it again; Google is a massive company with a lot of things going on at the same time, one of them is making sure users are secure while using whatever they are using. The trouble with that is – Google doesn’t own everything (yet), so Google’s …
Read More »Minecraft: Education Edition out of beta, now available
Minecraft: Education Edition has been in an early access beta since June of this year when it was announced; two months ago, Microsoft and Mojang announced a release date for the Education Edition’s first proper version – November 1st. The Education Edition is now available to educators around the …
Read More »Microsoft is bringing Minecraft to Apple TV
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced at the Apple event today that Microsoft will be bringing Minecraft to the Apple TV; Minecraft is already available on a dozen different platforms – though, with a few problems of its own. Cook revealed the news while talking about the success of Apple TV …
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