Month: February 2018

For you co-op enthusiasts out there, Nine Parchments is a game that’s going to scratch your itch! You’ll play as one of the wizarding students of the Astral Academy, the school for Wizards in the beautiful Trine world. As a terrible explosion rocks the Academy, all the powerful spell parchments are blown out into the world and into the hands of dangerous creatures. It’s your job to find the parchments if you want to earn your Wizard stripes, as students with Nine Parchments in their spellbooks can graduate as full-fledged Wizards. Nine Parchments is a mixture of twin-stick shooting, action… Continue reading Nine Parchments Blasting its Way to Xbox One March 7→

Did you know that, in addition to exciting voice-activated features like reaching Cortana* above the lock screen, you can now ask Cortana to shut down, restart, or sleep your PC? Continue reading Windows 10 Tip: Ask Cortana to shut down, restart or sleep your PC→

Korgan it’s an episodic dungeon-crawler that started development in 2016. The game was close to two years in development with only one developer — a solo project. This was probably my most personal, epic quest ever and I really had a lot of fun while developing the game — because it’s hard and will punish you when you least expect it. I can’t remember how many times I died while developing and playing the game. Two years later and I still keep dying while playing! Gamers beware: death is part of this game. The overall idea behind Korgan is to… Continue reading Episodic Dungeon Crawler Korgan Coming Soon to Xbox One→

Whether you’re building mobile or web applications, it highly likely that you’ve come across the async / await keywords in the .NET code you’re working on. This combo makes working with asynchronous operations really easy, but can also lead i… Continue reading Brandon Minnick – async/await best practices | On .NET→

Hello, fellow gamers! Welcome to your action-packed March Xbox Game Pass update. On January 23 we announced a major expansion to Xbox Game Pass that underscores our commitment to deliver our fans the ultimate gaming membership – by launching all new Xbox One exclusive games from Microsoft Studios into Xbox Game Pass on the same date as their global release. And we are incredibly excited on March 20 to bring critically acclaimed Sea of Thieves to Xbox Game Pass members the same day as its global release. In March, Xbox Game Pass members can also look forward to Rise of… Continue reading Xbox Game Pass: Sea of Thieves, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Super Lucky’s Tale and More Coming in March→

With the release of Age of Empires: Definitive Edition on Windows 10, Xbox Wire goes back in time to help you discover the story behind a saga that became a legend. This article was authored by and originally appeared on Xbox Wire France. The year is 1997. The Spice Girls have a top-selling album, France has yet to win the soccer World Cup, and Minitels are as popular as PCs. But all of this is about to change, as is the world of strategic videogames. A small development studio decides to try and do something new with real-time strategy games (RTS). Tony… Continue reading Once Upon a Time… an Age of Empires Retrospective→

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One! Every week, the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console. This coming week we can go hunting for space minerals with Deep Rock Galactic as it enters Xbox Game Preview, take a supernatural journey to ancient Egypt in Immortal Redneck, or get nostalgic for some dinosaur hunting action with the console launch exclusives Turok and Turok 2. These are just a few of the excellent games coming to Xbox One next week. Read more about these titles below and click… Continue reading Next Week on Xbox: New Games for February 26 to March 4→

This week on Channel 9, Christina’s out of a cast (yay!) but still wearing a splint (boo!) and back to share the latest developer news, including:[00:20] Build Registration is Open[00:38] Azure Go for Developers and an interview with Brian Ketelsenabou… Continue reading TWC9: Go SDK for Azure, PWA tips, important AI papers, and more | This Week On Channel 9→