Month: March 2018

On April 6-8 Gears Esports will make its triumphant return to Sin City for the Gears Pro Circuit Las Vegas Open presented by Caesars Entertainment, in association with Ultimate Gaming Championship (UGC). More than 60 of the top Gears Esports teams from around the world will compete at the Caesars Entertainment Studios, located behind Bally’s Las Vegas for a current prize pool of $150,000 USD. Watch the action at http://live.gearsofwar.com starting at 2:00pm PDT on Friday, then again on Saturday and Sunday at 10:00am PDT. All Gears Pro Circuit Las Vegas Open players and spectators will be awarded an in-game emblem with… Continue reading Gears of War Esports Partners with Caesars Entertainment to Host Gears Pro Circuit Las Vegas Open→

Corey Sanders, Corporate VP – Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Hariharan Jayaraman, Principal PM on the Azure Linux Team to talk about a private preview of Serial Console to Linux and Windows VMs. Have a look at the official blog: https://azu… Continue reading Azure Serial Console | Tuesdays With Corey→

Editor’s note: The following post was written by Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP Peter Groenewegen as part of our Technical Tuesday series. James Chambers of the Technical Committee served as the Technical Reviewer of this piece.  Azure Resource Manager templates offer you a declarative way of provisioning resources in the Azure cloud. Resource Manager templates define… Continue reading Deployment Pipelines For Versioned Azure Resource Manager Template Deployments→

Unless you’ve been locked away in a doomsday bunker, you’re likely familiar with the major new features Far Cry 5 is bringing to Ubisoft’s action-ratcheting sandbox series. Full campaign co-op, Guns (and Fangs) for Hire, a fresh stateside setting, and a crazed cult leader called “The Father” are all aiming to separate the sequel from previous entries. Far Cry 5 is available now, so we figured we’d take a closer look at this highly-anticipated new shooter. While it’ll no doubt be a blast building a pistol-packing resistance to liberate a cult-occupied Montana alongside a buddy though, the ambitious entry’s more… Continue reading Far Cry 5 Available Now: Our Five Favorite New Features→

I’ll always remember my first archer in TERA, and my first experience of playing with a controller on my PC. Back then, TERA was just the Island of Dawn, and we had a limited window every day to connect our skeleton network in Seattle to the servers in Seoul. We had humans, aman males, castanics, and popori, and on a good day you could clear Karascha on your own. But this was my third day in the office, and Sr. Product Manager Brian Knox said to me, “It also works on controllers, kinda.” So with nothing more than his faith… Continue reading Designing TERA’s True Action Combat for the Xbox One Controller→

Azure Event Grid is a managed event routing service that can help distribute events across both Azure and non-Azure services in near-real time fashion.In this episode Bahram Banisadr (@BAHRAwesoMe), a PM on the Event Grid team, comes on the show t… Continue reading Cloud scale events with Azure Event Grid | On .NET→

Hello gaming and music fans! We’re excited to announce the next Xbox Live Sessions with American rapper Desiigner joining the hot seat to play the all new Far Cry 5 on Xbox One X. This fun, interactive livestream is hosted on the Mixer Xbox Channel tomorrow, March 27 starting at 2 p.m. PT. Desiigner is excited to get his hands on Far Cry 5 on Xbox and check out the new features available tomorrow, all while interacting with fans on Mixer. He will need to find strength in the community around him to lead a resistance against a cult taking… Continue reading Rapper Desiigner to Join Xbox Live Sessions to Play Far Cry 5 on Tuesday, March 27→

Starting at 2 p.m. PDT today, members of the Xbox One Preview Update Alpha ring will begin receiving the latest Xbox One system update (1804.180323-1922). Read on to learn more about fixes and known issues in the latest system update. Fixes:   Network When a user loses XBL internet connectivity for any variety of reasons (ISP issues, home router issues, XBL service issues, cable pull tests, etc.) the console will now recover its connectivity a lot quickly. Party Chat Stability fixes for Game chat. Broadcasting Resolved stability issues with the continuous broadcasting feature when users would pause and restart the… Continue reading New Preview Alpha 1804 System Update – 3/26/18→