Microsoft’s Minecraft purchase has always been a weird one – at 2.5b$, it wasn’t cheap, and it didn’t make sense in Microsoft’s portfolio of complex enterprise and consumer software. Minecraft started as a simple project for Markus Person – the guy who started building the game by himself and had …
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At an event in Dublin focusing on the cloud and government policies regarding the cloud, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella along with President & Chief Legal Office, Brad Smith shared a few new details regarding Microsoft’s direction for Europe. According to Nadella, Microsoft has more than doubled its capacity for cloud …
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Steam is one of the most popular gaming platforms on PC, with clients for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The Steam Hardware Survey is an opt-in service in which people generously give Steam information about what kind of hardware and software they are running. Last week at the Ignite event, Microsoft …
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Two weeks ago the Thomas Happ Games announced that Axiom Verge was finally coming to the Xbox One after its long and dwindling journey across all of the platforms (except Xbox) – and today it is released on the Xbox Store. For Thomas Happ, this is a day he wished …
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Microsoft’s passion for their new UWP framework is known – they have been bugging 3rd party developers to switch to it since months. Microsoft also has been working on adding features to the new Settings app that is meant to replace the good ole Control Panel. Windows 10 kept the Windows …
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The Surface Hub is an enterprise product – so it would make sense for it to make an appearance at Microsoft Ignite. Paul Barr, Principal Program Manager Lead for the Surface Hub team at Microsoft was welcomed to the Microsoft Ignite Studio for a good look at what goes on …
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Microsoft introduced Windows Hello with Windows 10 at launch. It gave Windows users a new and more secure way of authenticating their identity – while removing the need to remember passwords. Hello combines three different types of biometric authentication technologies – facial recognition, Iris scan, and fingerprint scans. Obviously, this …
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EA is releasing two of the most anticipated AAA shooters this year – Battlefield 1, set in WW1 and Titanfall 2, set ‘after many generations into the future.’ Titanfall likes to keep things vague. TwitchCon begins this weekend in San Diego and goes on until October 2nd. EA and Xbox …
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Virtual Reality is something that has been sought for ever since the birth of science fiction. Today we have it – Oculus Rift and HTC Vive present us with an incredible experience… but only if we can afford it. While VR is here; it is incredibly expensive to own a …
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XCOM 2 is a turn-based tactical strategy game by Firaxis – the same folks who built the spectacular Civilization series and are working on a new installment for it. The game takes places twenty years after the events in ‘XCOM: Enemy Unknown’ – to avoid spoilers in case you haven’t …
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