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Xbox SmartGlass promises Halo Waypoint, HBO Go support within a few months

By Steve Watts, Oct 24, 2012 6:00am PDT

Microsoft has detailed the games and apps that will utilize SmartGlass support within a few months of its impending launch.

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"Please. This is the dumbest thing MS has done since the Kinect. I wonder when they will collapse ..."

- rtricoche see all 4 comments

Xbox Music starts streaming tomorrow

By Steve Watts, Oct 15, 2012 11:00am PDT

Xbox Music will launch tomorrow on the Xbox 360, and October 26 on Windows 8, Microsoft has announced. The Music Pass, which will let you play unlimited music from its library, will cost $9.99.

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"Just got an e-mail from them saying Zune software will work fine with xbox music and vice versa. ..."

- Lionhart32935 see all 21 comments

Notch refuses to help certify Minecraft for Windows 8

By Steve Watts, Sep 27, 2012 9:30am PDT

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says he refused to help Microsoft certify Minecraft for Windows 8, saying he'd rather not have it run on the new OS at all.

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"Notch is entitled to his opinion, but it's fucking annoying how the gaming community puts him on ..."

- weemanply109 see all 110 comments

First Xbox Live games for Windows 8 revealed

By John Keefer, Aug 31, 2012 9:30am PDT

Microsoft has revealed the first set of Xbox Live games that will be coming to Windows 8, some coming as early as October 26.

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"So this replaces GFWL right? GFWL already took note of achievements and score and applied them ..."

- FesterBlatz see all 15 comments

Windows RT to support Unreal Engine 3

By Andrew Yoon, Aug 29, 2012 11:00am PDT

Unreal Engine 3 continues to expand its reach to new devices. Epic Games has announced that the ubiquitous multiplatform engine will be available on Windows RT when it launches later this year.

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"I don't think this is true, you can deal with native code (c/c++) without having to deal with ..."

- hanged_man see all 14 comments

Minesweeper, Solitaire to get Achievements with Windows 8

By Steve Watts, Aug 07, 2012 12:15pm PDT

Achievements are apparently coming to Windows 8's OS-standard games: Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Majong.

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"Thanks! Now if only I could get achivements for clicking start and when my pc crashes! Microsoft ..."

- InfernoAblaze see all 21 comments

Carmack: Nothing exciting about Windows 8

By John Keefer, Aug 03, 2012 6:45am PDT

Microsoft may be excited about Windows 8, but id's John Carmack says he is there is nothing he is looking forward to in the new operating system.

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"I should've just lol'd your original reply and moved on apparently"

- derelict515 see all 147 comments

'Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe,' Valve boss says

By Andrew Yoon, Jul 25, 2012 1:15pm PDT

Valve head Gabe Newell is not a fan of Windows 8. "I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space."

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"You should try Linux Mint. It's Ubuntu with an interface designed to be as similar to Windows as ..."

- pantsburgh see all 198 comments

Windows 8 launches October 26

By Alice O'Connor, Jul 19, 2012 6:45am PDT

Just when you'd gotten nice and cosy with Windows 7, certainly the finest version of the operating system in many a year, Windows 8 swaggers in, clad in a shiny but questionable new interface. Microsoft announced yesterday that it'll launch on October 26.

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"the first thing what I will do if I even install win8 on a test partition is: - disable metro ..."

- RuskiSnajper see all 37 comments

Xbox Live coming to Windows 8

By Jeff Mattas, Sep 13, 2011 5:30pm PDT

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 8 will included Xbox Live functionality.

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"it would be cool if it would mean you could play your x360 games on pc."

- Elsaispo see all 70 comments