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Alan Velasco - Tue, Mar 25, 2025
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle launched late last year, giving Microsoft a great title to cap off a strong year. However, with all the hoopla of awards season, the game got overlooked as the gaming community discourse focused on the...
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Alan Velasco - Sat, Mar 22, 2025
Xbox seems to be full steam ahead in forging a new path for its future in the gaming space. An image within a recent blog post got the gaming world buzzing about what that future might look like. And it was an image the company didn’t...
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Thiago Trevisan - Fri, Mar 21, 2025
Gaming graphics have been on a constant improvement trajectory since the early days, with new technologies leveling up the experience. Ray tracing has been one such focus that brings gorgeous lighting, better shadows, and more realistic...
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Thiago Trevisan - Thu, Mar 20, 2025
Video games and their accompanying hardware have been a big part of mainstream entertainment for decades with billions of gamers worldwide partaking in the pastime. This segment is also not immune to the slings and arrows of fortune, and...
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Thiago Trevisan - Wed, Mar 19, 2025
The proliferation of gaming has reached levels never before seen, leading to billions of humans partaking in the activity. Those with more limited mobility love to game as well, but standard devices aren't always suitable for them...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Mar 18, 2025
Modding an Xbox 360 isn’t for the faint of heart, as the task requires knowledge of both hardware and software. This has kept it an incredibly niche use case. However, that might all change with the release of a new exploit called...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 17, 2025
Are you having trouble installing Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update for March? You're not alone. The newest update is reportedly brimming with issues running the gamut from minor annoyances, like running into installation errors, to...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Mar 14, 2025
Hot on the heels of Microsoft announcing its Muse AI modelm which is designed to aid the game development process, the company has introduced an additional AI tool meant for gamers. During the Xbox Podcast, Fatima Kardar, Corporate Vice...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Mar 13, 2025
It has been nearly 20 years since The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion released, becoming one of the best games of 2006. Like so many other classics from this era, it seems as if the time is right for this gem of an RPG to get a proper remake...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 13, 2025
New information has emerged about Microsoft's plans to partner with an OEM on an official Xbox handheld. Originally reported as being called Project Keenan, Tom Warren at The Verge says it's actually called Project Kennan, and that ASUS is...
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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Mar 12, 2025
This month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday is here and it's a big one. Last month fixed 63 vulnerabilities. This month's update, however, includes patches for another 57 security vulnerabilities, six of which are already being actively exploited...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Mar 12, 2025
Halo Infinite didn’t reestablish the successful franchise as a heavyweight in the gaming space the way Microsoft might’ve hoped, but the game has maintained a loyal player base several years after its release. The recently rebranded Halo...
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Victor Awogbemila - Tue, Mar 11, 2025
Just last week, Microsoft announced that the Skype app would no longer be available and would be replaced with Microsoft Teams by May. Yesterday, Microsoft made a similar announcement; however, this time, it will be replacing the Windows...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Mar 10, 2025
The current console cycle is mature enough that rumors have begun swirling regarding the next generation. There’s already been some rumblings about the PlayStation 6, and now there’s some potential information about what the next Xbox will...
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Victor Awogbemila - Fri, Mar 07, 2025
Microsoft has uncovered a large-scale malvertising campaign that has affected over 1 million devices worldwide. In a blog post detailing its findings, Microsoft revealed that threat actors used platforms such as Dropbox, Discord, and...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Mar 03, 2025
You've probably done it yourself: you need to know how hard a given application is hitting your CPU, so you pull up Windows' Task Manager to check the CPU utilization. For a casual inquiry, this is fine, but for anything approaching...
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Victor Awogbemila - Sat, Mar 01, 2025
For some years, Skype was popular for connecting people via voice and video, but its journey is ending. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Skype will be replaced by Microsoft Teams in May 2025.
14 years after its acquisition by...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Feb 25, 2025
AI is being heralded as an important part of the future game development pipeline by the biggest players in the industry, with the latest push coming from Microsoft with the release of its Muse AI model. However, it seems as if the future...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Feb 20, 2025
For years, predicting when quantum computing would become practical has been difficult, largely because of fundamental challenges that had no clear solutions. Those timelines may need to be advanced considerably, though; Microsoft has...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Feb 20, 2025
Generative AI seems poised to become an integral part of the game development pipeline, with Microsoft unveiling Muse, a World and Human Action Model (WHAM). It’s the first model of its kind, and comes by way of a collaborative effort...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Feb 18, 2025
If you read this website regularly—or even if this is your first time here—it's almost a given that you use or have used Windows Notepad at some point. It is one of the most basic text editors possible—or at least, it used to be. Microsoft...
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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Feb 12, 2025
Following last month's update which addressed 159 security flaws, Microsoft has released another significant patch, this time fixing 63 vulnerabilities of varying severity (critical, important, moderate, and low). Three critical...
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