Month: June 2018

Long before Kait, JD and Del united to take on The Swarm in Gears of War 4, Marcus Fenix and the COG Army faced the barbaric tyranny of General RAAM and the Locust uprising on Emergence Day. Now, for the first time, witness his swift and brutal ascent to general of the Locust army in the graphic novel collection of Gears of War: The Rise of RAAM. The trade paperback collects all four single issues from IDW Publishing, the first of which needed to go to second printing after selling out the first run, and includes 10 in-game Gears of… Continue reading Witness the Locust Ascension in the Gears of War: The Rise of RAAM Graphic Novel→

Welcome to another Games with Gold reveal for Xbox One and Xbox 360! In July on Xbox One, blast your way through robot hordes in Assault Android Cactus, then experience one of the most innovative and humorous co-op puzzlers in Death Squared. On Xbox 360 and Xbox One via Backward Compatibility, we’ll start with the classic fighting game Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, followed by the covert, action-adventure classic Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction. All games will be available exclusively for Xbox Live Gold members for a limited time as part of Games with Gold. With Xbox Live Gold, you… Continue reading New Games with Gold for July 2018→

In advance of the 4th of July holiday, we are celebrating that the State of Decay 2 community now exceeds three million players. This, along with the recent news that fans made State of Decay 2 the best-selling game of May, puts us in a festive mood. To celebrate, we are revealing our first post-launch content, the Independence Pack. This pack gives you the opportunity to take on the zombie horde with style, grace and most importantly, colorful gunpowder. Available today on both Xbox One and Windows 10, the pack unlocks an array of fiery new versions of vehicles, weapons… Continue reading State of Decay 2 Celebrates 3 Million Players with Today’s Release of the Independence Pack→

Our free Protean Shift expansion for Dungeon Defenders II is now available to download on Xbox One. Protean Shift brings tons of new weapons for every hero, new systems that enable players to keep the items that they like throughout the games progression by using new materials to upgrade their strength, evolve them to higher tiers, and the ability to turn any piece of equipment into a Legendary. Got an awesome weapon from a boss during the campaign that you don’t want to replace?  Now you can use our new systems to keep it as long as you want!  Some… Continue reading Dungeon Defenders II: Protean Shift Expansion Available Now on Xbox One→

Starting at 6:00 p.m. PDT today, members of the Xbox One Preview Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead Ring will begin receiving the latest Xbox One system update (1806.180626-1359). Read on for more about the fixes and known issues in the latest 1806 system update. Fixes:   FastStart The installation progress UI now accurately reflects the actual install progress of the FastStart title. Notifications Users will see the new follower toasts, but will not be able to see them in action center per design.   Known Issues:   Game Pass Tab Preview Alpha and Alpha – Skip Ahead users will notice… Continue reading New Preview Alpha & Alpha Skip Ahead 1806 System Update – 6/27/18→

Hello again, Xbox Insiders! I’m back to talk about the next phase of Xbox Ideas. You might recall last month when I introduced the concept of Idea Drives as part of the new Xbox Ideas. If you’re not familiar, head to last month’s post to read more about Xbox Ideas. When we launched Xbox Ideas, we included three Idea Drives, all of which asked you to submit your own suggestions and ideas for our feature teams to review. And you did! We received thousands of suggestions, comments, and votes on each Idea Drive, and have carefully chosen the best ideas to… Continue reading Xbox Ideas Update: Start Voting for your Favorite Ideas→

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In the fourth episode of this series, Dmirty and Suz connect the smart home device to the outside world for monitoring purposes. The temperature readings from the climate sensor can be pushed to Azure IoT Hub for consumption by cloud based software, su… Continue reading Getting started with Windows IoT Episode #4: Azure IoT Hub and IoT Central Integration | Visual Studio Toolbox→