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Halo: Spartan Strike launches on iOS, Windows, and Windows Phone — with no microtransactions

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 16, 2015
1 min

343 Industries and Vanguard Games launched top-down shooter Halo: Spartan Strike on multiple platforms today. With 343 Industries being a Microsoft subsidiary, of course Microsoft’s platforms are supported, including Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

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Microsoft heeds environmentalists’ criticism, improves Xbox One’s power options

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 10, 2015
2 min

Microsoft is listening, and it is willing to make changes.

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Xbox Live is down on Xbox 360 (update: not anymore)

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 9, 2015
1 min

You may run into some problems playing games on Xbox 360 this afternoon.

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Zynga’s head of game studios quietly left before CEO change from Mattrick to Pincus

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 9, 2015
2 min

Former Xbox Live exec left in March. Two new data experts have also joined Zynga.

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Microsoft slashes one-year of Office 365 Home, Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Music Pass, and Skype Unlimited to $149

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 6, 2015
2 min

Microsoft's subscription deal just got even better.

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Halo 5’s ads have fans gabbing — the No. 2 most talked about ad campaign online

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 3, 2015
2 min

Microsoft's Halo 5 ad campaign was the second most successful ad creating online social actions on sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Google.

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Microsoft stops producing Kinect for Windows v2 sensor, will focus on Kinect for Xbox One and Windows apps

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 2, 2015
2 min

Microsoft stopped producing the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor today after phasing out the original sensor not long ago. The company emphasized, however, that this does not mean it will stop supporting developers who want to build Windows apps that use the device.

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Otoy aims to enable developers to create cool VR imagery

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 1, 2015
11 min

Jules Urbach likes pretty pictures. The chief executive of cloud graphics startup Otoy likes them so much that he has dedicated his career to getting better and better 3D animated images in front of consumers. And right now, that means better virtual reality imagery.