Month: January 2018

Return to the Commonwealth for free this weekend as Fallout 4 has its second-ever free weekend exclusive to Xbox Live Gold members starting at 12:01 a.m. PST on Thursday, January 25 and running to 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, January 28. How do ya’ like them Dandy Boy Apples? In addition to the free weekend, you can take advantage of some great discounts on all versions of Fallout 4. Pick up the standard edition of Fallout 4 for 33% off, Fallout 4 G.O.T.Y. for 40% off, and Fallout 4 Season Pass for 50% off. You can also pick up the… Continue reading Play Fallout 4 for Free This Weekend with Xbox Live Gold→

Today we’re excited to announce another milestone for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG): the community of players on console has now grown to over 4M players! We’re thrilled to see the community continue to grow and have been inspired by everyone’s enthusiasm for the game – with your ongoing support and feedback we will continue to evolve PUBG and create the best experience for Xbox players. This week we deployed the sixth content update for the game, delivering numerous gameplay, optimization and bug fixes. More details on all the updates we’ve made since launch can be found here. To show the community our… Continue reading Celebrating over 4 Million PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Players on Xbox One!→

This episode of the AI Show is the first in a series talking about the Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM). DSVM is a family of Azure Virtual Machine images published by Microsoft on the Azure marketplace, specially built for Machine learning, deep lea… Continue reading Data Science Virtual Machine | AI Show→

We’re releasing a new update (1802.180121-1921) to Preview Alpha that addresses and adds one of the items (Game Pass in Collection) we listed in yesterday’s release notes. This update also includes fixes to Kinect setup and Network Transfer. Read on to learn more about this update, which will be made available starting at 6 p.m. PT to all Alpha Insiders. New Features: My Games and Apps Collection – Game Pass (No, we really mean this today! We experienced an error that resulted in it not appearing yesterday.) We have enabled a new feature to show an “Xbox Game Pass” tab within… Continue reading New Preview Alpha System Update – 1/24/18→

Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17083 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring and for those who opted in to Skip Ahead. What’s new in Build 17083 Font Settings and Fonts in the Microsoft Store Fonts are an important asset for your visual creativity. In this […] Continue reading Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17083 for PC→

Lottie is a library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on the client! Alexandre walked me through using LottieUWP for Windows apps. Questions, comments, sug… Continue reading #ifdef LottieUWP | #ifdef WINDOWS→

Who doesn’t have five minutes to catch up on the latest trends in the Web? Lucky for us, the Web Developer Advocacy team just debuted a web and cloud show called 5 Things, a quirky series in which Open Source leaders explore – you guessed it – five things about a cool technology every week…. Continue reading 5 Things: The Quirky, Fun, Informative New Video Series Featuring Web And Open Source Thought Leaders!→

Xbox Live Creators Program empowers passionate developers everywhere to share their games with the world. In the Creator’s Corner series, Xbox Live Creators Program developers will share what inspires and motivates them to design and create their games, what challenges and creative solutions they pursue to bring their games to fruition, and how they leverage Xbox Live capabilities to enhance their games for Xbox. Today, we’ll be chatting with Benjamin Sprakel of Sprakelsoft, based out of Berlin, Germany, about his experience creating and bringing Croc’s World to the Windows and Xbox audience. What’s your favorite game, ever, and why? If… Continue reading Creator’s Corner: Croc’s World→