Sea of Thieves had 1 million players over its first 2 days
Microsoft’s new big Xbox game is out, and it is going through some launch pains — and is seeing fleets of sailors. Sea of...
February 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: city life and teens
February saw a huge jump in downloads in the Minecraft Marketplace. Players on PC, mobile, and Xbox consoles downloaded 372,509 pieces of content from...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Cortana and Windows Mixed Reality improvements
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Cortana improvements and Windows Mixed Reality fixes. This build is from the RS4...
Sea of Thieves is mesmerizing and hilarious
Microsoft and developer Rare launched Sea of Thieves last night for Windows 10 and Xbox One. After an hour-and-a-half with the final retail build,...
Sea of Thieves servers crushed under wave of would-be pirates
Sea of Thieves is an online piracy simulator where you can work together with a crew to sail a ship to remote islands and into uncharted waters. You perform missions for computer-controlled characters, and you can get into battles with other players in their boats.
NBC Universal, Unity, Intel, and Microsoft kick off big indie game contest
Some big companies are getting together to create an indie game developers contest that will enable them to make prototype games based on some...
Games are getting the same realistic lighting as blockbuster movies
Multiple gaming technologies are coming together to enable real-time ray tracing. This is a technology that enables processors to replicate the physics of light,...
Microsoft releases two new Windows 10 previews with High Efficiency Image File format
Microsoft today released two new Windows 10 previews for PCs. Both builds include support for the High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) format, but they...
The DeanBeat: Lots of reasons to be at GDC
It’s always hard to choose what to attend at the Game Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco next week. But in the...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Windows Defender Application Guard improvements
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG) improvements. This build is from the RS4 branch,...