Tag Archives: Microsoft

With Halo 5 Guardians, Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Halo: Nightfall on the way you would think that there’s enough of that franchise to go around as is it, but apparently 343 Industries already has another project in the works. According to the Microsoft careers website, a Senior Producer position for “a new project line in the Halo universe” ...

Microsoft has announced the new free games available for the month of July, as part of their Games with Gold program. For the Xbox One, in a somewhat strange move, one of the free Games with Gold for June, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, seems to be remaining free throughout July. The 2D sidescroller is an excellent game with its ...

The latest word on the street is that Windows 9 might come without a price tag for some users. According to hacker group Wzor, the operating system will be offered either for free or at a discount to those who have purchased Windows 8.1 and upgraded it with update 2. The forum post mentions that this decision is still up for debate at ...

Both Sony and Microsoft teased us with a lot of features before the PS4 and the Xbox One were released. While the companies did deliver on some of their promises, there are a few features that are still nowhere to be seen. Earlier this month Sony’s head of worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida said that the “suspend mode” and “friend-assist” will still be ...

It looks like Crytek might really be in trouble after all. Sources who spoke to Kotaku say that the Crysis developer has been losing staff, not being able to pay employees, and cancelling projects due to financial and management trouble. The sources, reportedly unnamed employees, claim that some staffers have not been paid in months, and others have only been ...

If you find yourself to be bored with your Macbook Air and the Surface Pro 3 is something you’re eager to pick up, then you, my friend, are perfect for Microsoft’s new plan that involves trading in a Macbook for the company’s new laptop/tablet hybrid. Expiring on July 31, 2014, Microsoft is offering up to $650 in store credit to ...

The rumors that have gone on for months can finally stop: the Nokia X2 is here. The teaser and countdown that appeared on the Nokia Conversations site Friday finally yielded results early this morning, as the next iteration of the Nokia X-Series of phones was announced on their official site shortly after. On  par with the rumors, the phone has a 4.3-inch ClearBlack ...

Microsoft announced today on its  OneDrive blog that it is completely revamping it’s OneDrive cloud storage options. In order to better compete with the likes of Google and Dropbox, Microsoft has changed up its entire OneDrive structure and pricing options, starting with a free 15GB just for signing up. That is more than double Microsoft’s previous offering of 7GB, and matches Google’s ...

The Xbox One has been available in North America, Europe, Australia, and Brazil since November 22nd and today Microsoft announced that it will also be launched in Japan on September 4th. The console is already available for pre-order through multiple Japanese retailers and comes in three varieties. The regular Kinect version, the Kinect-free Xbox One, and the Day One edition, which includes Titanfall and ...

It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything about Nokia smartphones in general, assuming we can still call them that. In fact, since Microsoft has acquired Nokia, it’s difficult to predict what brand the new smartphones from the company will sport. Will they retain the Nokia brand, or will we be calling them Microsoft phones? Regardless, we know Microsoft is cooking ...