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Microsoft and 343 Industries vet joins Twitch

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 12, 2017
1 min

The streaming site announced today that it has hired Matt McCloskey as its new vice president of commerce. McCloskey previously worked at Microsoft, recently as the chief operating officer 343 Industries, which works on the Halo series.

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Xbox One gets new backward compatible games: Dragon Age, Battlefield, and more

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 10, 2017
1 min

Get ready to dig through your collection of Xbox 360 games. Microsoft has made more Xbox 360 hits backward-compatible with the Xbox One. This...

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Microsoft’s new privacy dashboard lets you manage location, search, browsing, and Cortana data

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 10, 2017
3 min

Microsoft today launched a privacy dashboard that lets you manage and review all the activity data collected about you through its various products and...

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Gears of War 4 gets 2 classic maps from the franchise’s past

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 10, 2017
1 min

Would you like some nostalgia with your chainsaws and shotguns? Microsoft announced today that Gears of War 4 is getting two maps from the...

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Microsoft confirms Platinum Games’ Scalebound is canceled

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 9, 2017
1 min

Microsoft is starting 2017 by killing off a notable console exclusive. Earlier today, Kotaku reported that the publisher had cancelled the action-role-playing game Scalebound. Microsoft...

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Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with a massive list of features and improvements

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 9, 2017
6 min

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a ridiculously long list of improvements. This is the first new build of...

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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dives deep into gaming, VR, autonomous cars, and Shield TV

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 8, 2017
24 min

You could say that Nvidia is at its high-water mark. The company’s stock price has tripled in the past year. It has transformed itself...

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Accenture’s top 5 predictions for what will be hot at CES 2017

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 29, 2016
11 min

Roughly 177,000 people are expected to converge on Las Vegas next week for the Consumer Electronics Show. CES 2017 will have around 2 million...

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Windows 10 could get a ‘Game Mode’ that focuses your rig’s processing resources on gaming

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 29, 2016
2 min

Today’s average gaming PC is more powerful than a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox One, but chances are that you probably also have several...

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Halo 5 player re-creates the Enterprise D from ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’

Posted byby Mike Minotti
December 27, 2016
1 min

Halo 5’s Forge mode allows players to make their own levels, and some fans have gotten pretty creative. As a big Star Trek fan, I especially enjoy this creation by the YouTube channel Starship Forge of the Enterprise D from The Next Generation.

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