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Next month will see developers finally get their hands on Microsoft’s augmented reality platform, HoloLens. An announcement accidentally posted ahead of embargo on Fortune (since pulled, viaReddit) revealed that the HoloLens Development Edition will open for pre-orders later today (February 29th) ahead of a March 30th release date. The kit …
Read More »HoloLens Development Edition to launch next month
Microsoft’s AR glasses will cost $3,000 and include Young Conker, Fragments and RoboRaid as games demos
Read More »Major Nelson says Season Pass DLC is ‘dangerous’ for multiplayer games
Multiplayer online shooters that lock some of their map content behind paywalls risk fragmenting their community. That’s according to Microsoft’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb, who in IGN’s latest Podcast Unlocked episode praised 343 Industries for making Halo 5’s post-release map downloads free to all players, GameSpot reports. [DLC passes can …
Read More »Windows Store downloads lack some features of Steam equivalents
Customers who buy products such as Rise of The Tomb Raider on Microsoft’s Windows Store as opposed to rival services such as Steam aren’t getting exactly the same game. That’s according to How-To Geek which reports that differences between how purchases are delivered result in the Windows Store version missing …
Read More »Microsoft scraps Android-to-Windows app porting programme
Announced last year, Project Astoria was designed to allow game devs to easily translate mobile code for PC
Read More »Microsoft acquires cross-platform tools firm Xamarin
Xamarin’s tech integrated into Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure and more
Read More »Assetto Corsa delayed on PS4 and Xbox One
The console version of cult PC racing sim Assetto Corsa has been delayed beyond its April release date. Publisher 505 Games has now said the game will arrive on June 3rd, saying that additional development time [has been] allowed to ensure the console release delivers the most polished experience for …
Read More »Bill Gates sides with FBI in Apple hack debate
Former Microsoft boss Bill Gates has potentially isolated himself from his tech contemporaries by saying that Apple should abide by a government ruling forcing it to share encrypted data. This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general …
Read More »Microsoft vows that HoloLens will not suffer Kinect’s fate
A full version of HoloLens will launch ‘when the world is ready’, to avoid the fate suffered by Kinect, Microsoft has said. If a consumer bought it today, they would have 12 things to do with it,” creator Alex Kipmanexplained (viaRecode). And they would say: ‘Cool, I bought a $3,000 …
Read More »Microsoft: We will be patient with HoloLens to avoid ‘unpleasant’ Kinect situation
'When I feel the world is ready, then we will allow normal people to buy it,' says creator Alex Kipman
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