The Xbox platform is going through an expansion – no longer is it limited to the consoles, it’s on every Windows 10 PC, and it intends to count the PC gamer as part of the Xbox family. Of course, Microsoft is very careful with those intentions, since everybody remembers what …
Read More »Microsoft will have a presence at the Mobile World Congress 2017
The mobile business hasn’t been very nice to Microsoft in the past few years; Microsoft sold off the very expensive Nokia brand – which, by the way, is making a comeback in 2017 – and then decided to sell off the remaining Lumia devices as fast as it could get …
Read More »Minecraft goes nuclear with Fallout add-on pack for consoles
Fallout, Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic RPG series may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Minecraft; it soon might be with the announcement of an official add-on pack, however. The announcement comes with a trailer that has recreated Fallout 4’s own announcement trailer in Minecraft; albeit with less shooting …
Read More »Amazon Video is rolling out a brand-new app for Xbox One
Amazon is making some big moves in the streaming industry right now – the service just launched in about 240 countries around the world, a big jump from the five countries it was available in just two days ago; though, not all is well – there is some sprinkling of …
Read More »Star Wars: Battlefront is now available on EA Access for Xbox One
EA Access members on the Xbox One are in for a treat as EA has added their Star Wars themed shooter from last year to it’s fast growing catalog. If you are a subscriber to EA Access you can now explore the multiplayer content it has to offer, note that the …
Read More »Age of Empires II HD gets a new expansion: Rise of the Rajas
It seems Microsoft is far from being finished with the now 17 year old game, adding another expansion to its record. Released originally in 1999 and remastered for Steam in 2013; Age of Empires II HD is now in the hands of the developing studio SkyBox Labs. A classic reborn At release, …
Read More »Ubisoft’s The Division gets DX12 support on Windows 10 and a free weekend starting today
Tom Clancy’s The Division, the open world 3rd person shooter developed by Massive Entertainment studio just became Ubisoft’s first DirectX 12 supported title. The PC exclusive game update comes with a host of bug fixes and stability improvements along with DirectX 12 support for Windows 10 users with compatible graphics cards. DirectX …
Read More »Xbox One gets improved game download speed with its latest update
The Xbox Insiders are a lucky bunch – not only they get to test the latest and greatest of whatever the Xbox team churns in their labs, but they also get some (very) decent performance upgrades, albeit with a few occasional bugs. Today’s update brings many improvements that have been …
Read More »Vivaldi adds tab notifications, improved tab stacking, and more in its latest update
The Vivaldi web browser is not one you hear of every day – it’s not even in the top three browsers by usage; what Vivaldi is, though, is an incredibly well-designed browser with an astonishing amount of options that you can customize at your whim. An interesting fact about Vivaldi: …
Read More »Microsoft Edge will block Flash content with Creators Update
Adobe’s Flash gave web developers the freedom to add interactive content to their websites when they usually couldn’t do it – the Flash plugin could play music and videos, something the web standards didn’t support. Today, however, modern browsers with full compatibility with HTML5 can do everything Flash could, and …
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