Tag Archives: Microsoft

Microsoft is really trying hard to sway more customers to its side I’ll give them that. The company’s latest move includes giving away a free game to anyone who purchases an Xbox One from select retailers next week. Even better, the free game will be a title of your choice and you can ask for anything as long as it’s a new ...

Microsoft has just announced that every Xbox One gamer who is also subscribed to the company’s Xbox Live Gold program will soon be able to enjoy the entire Forza Motorsport 5 experience, as the game will be available free-of-charge for the entire upcoming weekend. Said title will be eligible for downloading beginning at 12:01 a.m. PDT, Sept. 4th, and will ...

Back at E3 earlier this year, Activision and Microsoft had announced a Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare-themed limited edition Xbox One console. The details were pretty scarce, but we did find out that the XB1 will be custom-made – hence all those decals mimicking Advanced Warfare’s orange-like theme – and the fact that the actual game would come packed as ...

Microsoft seems to have finished testing Minecraft on the Xbox One because they announced today that the game is ready to launch this Friday, September 5th. A recent post on Xbox Wire reveals that new players can purchase the game for $20 while those who already own Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition can get it at a substantial discount. Veteran players will ...

Microsoft is finally bringing the Xbox One to Japan after almost a year since the console was first launched in the US and EU. Since this a market traditionally dominated by Sony and Nintendo, most people believe that the Redmond-based company will have a hard time selling a decent amount of units over there. Even so, Microsoft is very confident ...

Now that Madden 15 was released, and the NFL season is about to start, Microsoft has decided to do something that will allow Xbox and Windows 8 users to watch real football on their platforms. Therefore, the company announced the release of an official NFL app that will bring fans a more immersive and interactive way to watch American football. ...

Windows 9 code-named Threshold will possibly be launched earlier than expected after Microsoft China posted on Weibo and leaked the new OS’s logo. Microsoft China has posted the following: “Microsoft’s latest OS Windows 9 is coming soon, do you think the start menu at the left bottom will make a come back?” That’s all that we got except for the ...

The new generation consoles seem to be selling like hot cakes, with Sony already managing to sell 10 million PS4 units and Microsoft rumored to have sold more than 5 million Xbox Ones to date. Console wars aside, things are going pretty good considering that the new consoles only launched less than a year ago. However, all of this doesn’t apply ...

Word on the street lately is that a lot of companies are interested in a possible partnership with the Cyanogen team. They are well known for the CyanogenMod custom ROM, which is based on the Android operating system, but can be customized in various ways. However, the team is perhaps even more famous for their work on the software that’s running on ...

Tablets have moved to the background of our news reports lately, mostly because we’ve been focusing on the latest flagship smartphones that have been launched this year. The time has come, though, to discuss a bit about which of the two most popular tablets should one get: the iPad Air or the Surface Pro 3. Of course, these are not ...