Microsoft is pushing the cloud harder than it ever has; Azure is expanding – in fact, it was a big part of Microsoft’s earnings last quarter. Today, Microsoft is lowering the prices for its primary services in Azure: virtual machines, and blob storage. The cold war of cloud computing between …
Read More »Fallout 4 High-Resolution Texture Pack now available on PC
Although Bethesda is done with expanding the world of Fallout 4 with more story DLCs, they are giving PC users a nice bonus; coming as a free option, PC players can now download and install the official High-Resolution Texture Pack to Fallout 4. For many PC players of Bethesda games, …
Read More »Lenovo launches three new ThinkPad laptops; two workstations, one VR-Ready
The annual SOLIDWORKS World 2017 convention is going on right now in Los Angeles, and Lenovo isn’t going to let this opportunity go away; the company launched three new “mobile workstation” laptops today, one of which is VR-Ready. The ThinkPad P51, P51s, and P71 are all unique in their own …
Read More »Owners of Payday 2, Starbreeze to publish Psychonauts 2
Double Fine Productions’s upcoming sequel to the classic platformer – Psychonauts now has a publisher to go along with it. The developers behind Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and current owners of Payday 2 – Starbreeze Studios is now the publisher behind Psychonauts 2. In the original Psychonauts, players …
Read More »HoloLens brings Portals to the real world
HoloLens has been used for a plethora of applications – from emergency responders, elevator technicians, and museum exhibits, to a simulated military exercise for the U.S. Marines and a few trials by the Australian Air Force. Those are some very serious and critical use-cases, where time – or life – …
Read More »Windows tablets gain foothold as Google and Apple witness a decline
According to a recent report by StrategyAnalytics – a research and analytics firm – FY16 was quite an eventful period for the great tablet giants. The incumbents – Apple, Google and Google’s OEMs – witnessed a double-digit decline in growth; 19% for Apple, and 10% for Samsung, Google’s largest Android …
Read More »Ubisoft fully unveils Rainbow Six Siege Operation Velvet Shell
During Rainbow Six Siege’s Invitational Esports event, Ubisoft – as promised – came out with a bunch of information regarding Velvet Shell. The Operation is bringing two new operators and a new map to Ubisoft’s tactical shooter game Rainbow Six Siege. Ubisoft’s Invitational event had quite the opposite results for …
Read More »Gmail will soon fall back to basic version on Chrome for Windows Vista and XP
Windows XP and Vista are the absolute examples of Microsoft’s inconsistency; one was hailed for its brilliance and is still used today, while the other received nothing but hate. However, thankfully, Microsoft isn’t very attached to either of them; the company ended support for Windows XP in 2014, while …
Read More »Lucio from Overwatch wallrides his way to Heroes of the Storm
Blizzard’s free-to-play MOBA is getting everyone’s favorite DJ from Overwatch as a playable hero soon. Heroes of the Storm’s Lucio is coming armed with largely the same power base from his counterpart in Overwatch. Thanks to Blizzard’s continuous inclusion of iconic characters from a wide number of their games, the …
Read More »Skype’s older clients to stop working after March 1st
It’s time for Skype to leave behind its past and build a foundation for a better future. The Skype team at Microsoft have gone through rough patches; while the Skype experience – for users – have been somewhat static in the past few months, it has been going through a …
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