Microsoft renews developer push for its Universal Windows Platform
During its online Windows Developer Day event today, Microsoft tried to get developers excited about building apps and games for its Universal Windows Platform...
How to play podcasts in the background on Xbox One
I love doing two things at once, like playing video games and listening to podcasts. And the Xbox One has become an ideal console for doing...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney still opposes Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (video)
Editor’s note: We previously published a transcript of our fireside chat with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. Now we’re publishing the video below. Sweeney’s...
Perfect World is putting Xbox One multiplayer battler Gigantic on Windows beyond Microsoft’s app store
One of the Xbox One’s most interesting-looking free-to-play games is also coming to nearly every active version of Windows thanks to a new partnership....
Tim Sweeney: How the Universal Windows Platform is like Facebook and a boiling frog
Microsoft is working to unify its desktop, mobile, and gaming platforms, but one vocal critic thinks this could come with some frightening consequences for...
Game developers weigh in on the openness of Microsoft’s Windows 10 platform
Tim Sweeney is one of the best-known technical experts in the game industry and the CEO of Gears of War creator Epic Games. He kicked...
Microsoft knows you hate Universal Windows Platform’s framerate lock and a fix is coming
Microsoft is a huge corporation, but it is also one that has learned how to remain nimble in order to pivot when it does...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Here’s how to keep Windows an open platform
Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step...