Dave W. Shanahan
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Today, Intel officially unveiled the details on its 11th-gen Rocket Lake-S processors. led by the new flagship Core i9-11900K, with 8 cores, 16 threads, boosted clock speeds up to 5.3GHz, support for DDR4 RAM at 3,200MHz, a total of 20 ... Read more
Today, Microsoft acquired The Marsden Group, a leader in industrial technology innovation and rapid prototyping, for an undisclosed amount. Microsoft's acquisition is to help customers build more quickly vertical solutions using Microsoft Azure cloud, edge-computing, and AI services, in particular. ... Read more
Windows Terminal Preview 1.7 is here and it comes new features including Windowing improvements, JSON fragment extensions support, read-only panes, and more as detailed by a recent blog post by Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft. You can install both ... Read more
No Man's Sky is getting its first content update allowing players to tame, breed, and bond with wild animals in the game. In an announcement on Xbox Wire, Hello Games, the development team behind No Man's Sky, announced that the ... Read more
In case you are looking for a webcam to use on your PC, you can use the Xbox Kinect as a webcam on Windows 10. Once you make your Kinect a webcam on Windows 10, you can use it for ... Read more
For those looking to add some flair to your Windows 10 desktop, there is the suite of customization features available in Stardock's Object Desktop. Yesterday, Stardock announced a major update for their popular Tiles customization tool, one of the tools ... Read more
There's another Free Play Days event for Xbox Live Gold members this weekend. Starting today through Sunday, January 14, Star Wars: Squadrons, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and Yooka-Laylee will be free to play with Xbox Live Gold, and limited-time discounts are ... Read more
Since the announcement that all future Star Wars games will fall under a renewed Lucasfilm Games brand, Ubisoft and Lucasfilm Games are working on a new open-world Star Wars game. Of course, there are no specific details about the new ... Read more
Microsoft corporate vice president of Commercial Management Experiences, Brad Anderson, is leaving the company after 18 years. As noted in a post on ZDNet, Anderson will join Qualtrics as President of Products & Services. Anderson posted about his decision to ... Read more
On Twitter, Bethesda Softworks announced that one of their game development studios, MachineGames, will work with Lucasfilm Games to develop a new Indiana Jones game. MachineGames is behind the popular Wolfenstein game series on Xbox One, starting with Wolfenstein: The ... Read more
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is the latest EA and Respawn Entertainment game title optimized for Microsoft's new Xbox Series X|S consoles. This optimization update improves Xbox's Backward Compatibility, increased framerate, and improved dynamic resolution range. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen ... Read more
There's a new Xbox Series X|S controller coming soon. Microsoft announced the new Pulse Red Xbox Wireless Controller on Xbox Wire and the new controller will be available "in most Xbox markets" on February 9, 2021 for $64.99. In China, ... Read more
Microsoft Rewards is a program where you can earn points to redeem for Microsoft Store and Xbox gift cards, Xbox Game Pass subscriptions, Xbox Live Gold subscriptions, and more. There's a new Microsoft Rewards points grab available, first spotted by ... Read more
Microsoft revealed the upcoming Games with Gold lineup for January 2021 for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass subscribers. On Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, you can relive your biggest childhood fears in Little Nightmares or fight off ... Read more
YouTube Gaming users watched more than 100 billion hours of gaming content in 2020, making this year the biggest year ever. In a post on the official YouTube Blog, Head of Global Gaming, Ryan Wyatt, looks back at 2020 and ... Read more
The Xbox team announced another Free Play Days event today, featuring The Elder Scrolls Online Tamriel Unlimited and Soulcalibur VI, free to play, for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers. Just a reminder, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ... Read more
Starting in January 2021, Sea of Thieves is shifting towards a seasonal progressive content update schedule. Rare, the game developer behind the blockbuster Xbox game, faced a number of unforeseen challenges trying to get out game content updates to Sea ... Read more
Red Dead Online is a vibrant, ever-evolving online world where you can take on a range of unique roles and pursuits to blaze your own outlaw trail across the American frontier. On December 1st, 2020, Red Dead Online will be ... Read more
Microsoft just released the new Games with Gold lineup for December and all Xbox games are available to play on Xbox One, as well as the new Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles. Use clues to solve the ... Read more
Microsoft believes "it's about time" prices went up for new game titles on the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X consoles. As described in a gameindustry.biz post, Xbox CFO Tim Stuart, was asked at the Jefferies Interactive Entertainment conference ... Read more
Rocket League players will enjoy faster game load times, improved split-screen performance, and two new video modes on both Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles.