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The appealing IllumiRoom tech demo shown off by Microsoft last year has expended into an even more technologically complicated beast. IllumiRoom sparked interest in January 2013 and used a combination of Kinect and projectors to expand a gaming environment beyond the confines of the TV screen to encompass an entire …
Read More »DirectX 12 will arrive alongside Windows 10
Microsoft will ship DirectX 12 alongside Windows 10 in 2015, the computing firm has announced. The company has also revealed the latest version of its DirectX API will be supported by Unreal Engine 4.4. Developers in the Early Access program who subscribe to UE4 will also have access to the …
Read More »DirectX 12 shipping with Windows 10
API gets Unreal Engine 4 support
Read More »Microsoft’s RoomAlive transforms living room into augmented reality game
Users can interact with virtual world in physical space
Read More »Halo PC-exclusive maps added to Master Chief Collection
Halo franchise developer 343 Industries will pack a batch of maps previously exclusive to Windows PC into Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One. A new post on Halo Waypoint explains that six maps from the original Halo and two maps from Halo 2 will be included in the …
Read More »Tencent game revenue tops EA, Sony – report
Mobile and free-to-play giant Tencent has been beating out AAA companies such as EA and Activision Blizzard in terms of game revenue, according to a new report. A recently published piece from Newzoo has the China-based corporation topping the 10 highest-grossing public game companies. EA and Activision Blizzard finished second …
Read More »Microsoft ‘not satisfied’ with current Xbox One sales in Japan
Xbox One has got off to a slow start in Japan, but Microsoft has vowed to continue with its ongoing struggle to achieve success in the region. It’s not as though we’re satisfied with the current sales state,” Xbox Japan boss Takashi Sensui told Famitsu, as translated by Kotaku. We …
Read More »Retail version of Minecraft landing on Xbox One one month after PS4
It seems that Microsoft’s $2.5bn acquisition of Minecraft creator Mojang doesn’t mean the retail version of the brick-building game will launch on Xbox One ahead of its rival, the PS4. Microsoft’s Xbox News Wire has dated the release of the massively popular title on Xbox One for November 18th, priced …
Read More »Windows 10 announced, coming late 2015
Microsoft has revealed the next iteration of its Windows operating system, Windows 10. Leapfrogging from the divisive Windows 8, which was released back in 2012, Windows 10 will reintroduce many of the features that were removed from Windows 8. This includes the iconic Start menu, which will implement some of …
Read More »Xbox One arrives in China with reportedly very strong numbers
Microsoft has finally released the Xbox One in China, and early reports are very positive. Having delayed the launch at the last minute earlier this month, the machine has finally hit the potentially lucrative Chinese region – and a Microsoft statement on A9VG (spotted by NeoGaf) appears to claim that …
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