Tag: Windows
News Xbox's PC App Brings Refreshed Home Experience To All Users
Including a refined Game Pass experience
Following a lengthy round of Xbox Insider testing, Microsoft has brought its refreshed Home Experience to all PC users today. The Xbox team says that this new UI makes it "faster and easier to find favorite games and discover great new titles to play" with Xbox on PC. On the surface, this all looks and...
News Xbox Is Continuing To Make UI Improvements For Handheld Devices
"Compact Mode" going from strength to strength
There's been a lot of talk in recent months about Xbox and Phil Spencer's love for handheld devices such as the ASUS ROG Ally, and clearly there's a desire to make the Xbox experience as accessible as possible on these systems. The Xbox App for PC introduced something called "Compact Mode" late last...
News Steam Deck Dual-Boot Windows Support Is Still A High Priority For Valve
A new Steam Deck OLED has just been announced
Valve has just lifted the lid on the Steam Deck OLED, the next iteration of its portable handheld gaming hardware. As part of this, it's now reassuring fans native dual-boot support for the system is "high on the list" of priorities. As highlighted by The Verge, Valve designer Lawrence Yang recently...
News Be Prepared To Buy Sea Of Thieves Again, If You Prefer To Play On Steam
Rocking the boat
Yesterday, as you might have heard, the official Sea of Thieves Twitter account revealed Rare's multiplayer pirate game would be released on Steam. It's not all that surprising considering how games like Gears 5 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection are already on there, and it should be a nice boost for the playe
News Halo 2 For PC Expected To Go Into Public Testing Later This Month
If all goes to plan
Don't get us wrong, we appreciate the fact The Master Chief Collection is now accessible to more fans than ever before, but 343's roll out of the PC version seems like it could take some time. Head over to Steam or any forum celebrating the series and you'll likely see at least a few posts about how long it's taken to release...
News This is How Easy It is to Stream Xbox One Games to the Oculus Rift
Game-changing?
When the Oculus Rift comes out in Q1 of next year, the consumer version will come bundled with an Xbox One controller and the ability to stream games from the console to the virtual reality headset itself. Even more interesting, is just how simple it is to make this work. In a recent Eurogamer interview with Palmer Luckey, the Oculus...
News Microsoft Windows 10 Event - Live Blog and Chat
Get your talk on!
[liveblog=windows_10_event_jan15]#Windows10 #XboxOne Microsoft are holding a little shindig to show off the latest version of the operating system that built the company, Windows 10. So as an Xbox site, why are we covering it? Well, the rumour is that Microsoft are intending to unify their different operating systems into one...
News Microsoft's Windows 10 Event Could Be More Tied to Xbox Than You Think
Rumours, rumours, rumours
We're all aware that Microsoft is gearing up for a big Windows 10 event on January 21st, and that there will likely be some mention of the Xbox One platform during that show. With the company pushing for a unified operating system across all of its devices, we'd imagine at least some sort of passing reference. However, it...
News Microsoft Releases Adapter to Make Your Xbox One Kinect Sensor Work with Windows
Only $50 to you
Microsoft has released a new adapter which will allow you to take the Kinect sensor that came with your Xbox One, and connect it to your PC and tablets that are running Windows 8 or Windows 8.1. A few months ago, they released Kinect v2 for Windows at four times the price of the $50 adapter, and the functionality is reportedly...
