If there's a theme that sums up this year's Game Developers Conference, it's virtual reality, AKA 'the first stepping stone towards holodecks'. But where Sony and Valve are chasing the Oculus Rift with their …
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Holographic technology is here at last, and it’s going to bring games out of the TV screen and into your actual real-life living room. Yep, you read that right Microsoft recently demoed its vision of next-generation computing, an…
HOLOLENS IS FACING OFF WITH SOME WELL-ESTABLISHED OPPONENTS IN THE VR REALM, BUT WITH ITS UNIQUE SELLING POINT, CAN IT BEAT ITS TWO BIGGEST RIVALS ? Head-mounted gaming isn’t exactly a completely new trend. For a few years now, o…
Microsoft takes a hop, skip and a jump to a new OS. Hell, it’s a whole new eco system... Later This year we should see the final launch of Microsoft’s next operating system. And to sweeten the deal, Microsoft is set to dist…
Microsoft, to great cries of “WHY?”, made Windows 8 tablet-friendly at the expense of desktop usability. Removing the Start menu didn't help either, and the resulting operating system experienced a lower adoption rate than ev…
It's time for our understatement of the year: the reveal of the next generation Xbox back in May 2013 was not the joyous occasion it could, or should, have been. Instead, it ushered in more PR blunders, negative press and lac…
Forcing consumers to place a camera that couldn’t be entirely switched off especially during a time where genuine concerns surrounding our virtual privacy were rife into the living room wasn't Microsoft’s smartest move of the…
Oh, to be a lab technician over at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. What joyous madness might these white coats have conjured up and left by the wayside as the big M rolled tank-like towards the relatively nondescript black box of the…
Xbox purveyor Microsoft has splashed out $2.5 billion (£1.5 billion, approximately) to buy Minecraft creator Mojang, and the Swedish studio’s three co-founders, Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, Carl Manneh and Jakob Porser, are set to le…
MASTER CHIEF MAKES AN EXCITING LEAP INTO THE NEXT GENERATION OF XBOX Halo 5: Guardians is going to change your life. We’ve meditated on the power of the Xbox One , spoken with the High Prophets at 343 Industries in hushed whisper…
Microsoft confirms that we’re getting a new version of Windows in 2015 and it’s called, er, Windows 10. ncreasingly, if you’re going to pick up a copy of Windows, it’s been best to go with every other release. Windows 98 was fine…
The last time I unboxed a brand new Xbox console, the iPhone hadn’t yet been invented,people still watched movies on DVD, and ‘bieber’ was just a funny sound. It’s almost unbelievable to think that it’s been eight years since the…
